CarmeLab

19/03/2019

15/09/2018

The lab welcomes Chen Leibson, who joins the team as an MSc student 👏👏👏

20/04/2018

Another Rasmus study, finding adaptation unique to a certain human population. This time it's diving:

Genetic and physiological adaptations enable the remarkable breath-holding ability of marine nomads.

26/03/2018

Our paper on Alu exaptation in humans is out! see https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15476286.2018.1429880

29/01/2018

Analysis of Denisovan fragments in modern humans. Many conclusions are similar to the 2014 papers that did the same for Neanderthals

Some present-day humans derive up to ~5% [] of their ancestry from archaic Denisovans, an even larger proportion than the ~2% from Neanderthals []. We developed methods that can disambiguate the locations of segments of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry ...

26/01/2018

Oldest Homo sapiens remains out of Africa discovered in Israel
https://uk.mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUKKBN1FE2SY?__twitter_impression=true

17/01/2018

New paper from the lab is now online in PNAS. This project was led by our collaborator Lynne Maquat from University of Rochester Medical Center, and Eitan Lavi from the lab helped with many analyses. In the paper, we suggest that SINEs may independently get inserted into orthologous 3'UTRs in human and mouse. We show several cases that these SINEs participate in regulating gene expression by means of Staufen-mediated mRNA decay (SMD). This is a fine example of convergent evolution of SINE-directed SMD. See

National Academy of Sciences

15/01/2018

כבוד למיכל, מבוגרי המעבדה, על שנבחרה כאחת מארבעים הצעירים המבטיחים של השנה.

גיל: 33 אישי: בזוגיות, מתגוררת ביפו השכלה: דוקטורט במדעי המחשב וביו-אינפורמטיקה מהאוניברסיטה העברית

04/01/2018

Gene ORGANizer, our web server connecting genes to the body parts they affect, is among the top research tools of 2017. https://labworm.com/blog/top-17-research-tools-of-2017/

17/11/2017

Funny. Large population size -> selection stronger than drift -> less diversity -> higher vulnerability -> extinction.

The now-extinct passenger pigeon used to be one of the most numerous vertebrates on Earth. Murray et al. examined the genomes of four passenger pigeon samples from different locales within its range. They describe the interplay between passenger pigeon population size, genome structure and recombina...

02/11/2017

Now there are three kinds of orangutans

Researchers have identified a new species of orangutan in an isolated forest on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Fewer than 800 individuals remain, and the construction of a dam and road threaten the prime habitat of the ape. A combination of anatomical, ecological, and genetic data convinced resea...

19/10/2017

This is amazing:

Artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo Zero trained in just days, without any human input.