Group

Prof. Nir Gov

Principal investigator

The Lee and William Abramowitz Professorial Chair of Biophysics

Phone +972-8-934-3323

Location Perlman Chemical Sciences Building , room 713B

  • Alexander Veksler

    Post-doc

    2005 - 2007

    Current activity: Post-doc in Lehigh University (U.S.A.), with Prof. Dimitrios Vavylonis.

  • Thorsten Auth

    Post-doc

    2004 - 2007

    Current activity: Post-doc in Forschungszentrum Juelich, with Prof. Gerhard Gompper.

  • Shirley Mark

    Msc

    2007 - 2009

    Project title:”Dynamic instability in expanding cell culture”. Current activity: PhD student in computational neurobiology in WIS.

  • Moshe Naoz

    PhD

    Project title:”A Model of Podosomes Dynamics”. 

    Current activity: Post-doc in the University of Chicago.

  • Roie Shlomovitz

    PhD

    Project title:”Dynamics of membranes driven by actin polymerization”. 

    Current activity: Post-doc in the UCLA.

  • Doron Kabaso

    Post-doc

    Project title:”Modeling the dynamics of red-blood cell cytoskeleton-membrane interactions”. 

    Current activity: Post-doc in the University of Lubljina, Slovenia.

  • Barak Peleg

    Msc

    Project title:”Coupling of membrane-cytoskeleton driven by curved proteins”. 

    Current activity: Industry.

  • Elisabeth Fischer-Friedrich

    Post-doc

    Project title:”Rings and Helices of bio-polymers on membranes”.

  • Tomer Bar-On

    Post-doc

    Project title: ”Non-linear dynamics of membranes”.

  • Gilad Orly

    Msc

    Project title: “A physical model for the heights of the filopodia and the stereocila”.

  • Caludia Vartas

    Post-doc

    Project title: ”Numerical simulations of membrane dynamics”.

  • Eyal Ben-Isaac

    PhD

    Project title: ”Modeling the dynamics and interactions of actin-driven membrane structures”.

  • Urska Jelercic

    Visiting Phd

    Project title: “Routes to pearling driven by curved proteins and actin”.

  • Victoria Tarle

    Msc

    Project title: ”Modelling the instability of an expanding cellular monolayer during collective cell motion”.

  • Abhijit Ghosh

    Post-doc

    Project title: “Active polymers”.

  • Ankush Sengupta

    Post-doc

    Project title: “Modelling collective cell migration”.

  • Ido Lavi

    Msc

    Project title: “Modeling oscillatory cell motility based on speed-persistence coupling”.

  • Itai Pinkoviezky

    Phd

    2012 - 2016

    Project title: “The physics of traffic jams of molecular motors in cellular protrusions”.

  • Jonathan Ron

    Msc

    2014 - 2017

    Project title: “Modeling Collective transport by ants: navigation around obstacles and flexible loads”.

  • Erik Brenitt

    Post-doc

    Project title: “Modelling the Dynamics of Circular Dorsal Ruffles”.

  • Nitzan Razin

    Phd

    Project title: “The statistical mechanics of different classes of active particles”.

  • Dan Gorbonos

    Post-doc

    2014 - 2019

    Project title: “An adaptive gravity model for the dynamics of insect swarms”.

  • Oran Ayalon

    Msc

    Project title: “Formic Collective Decision Making”.

  • Lital Oscar

    Msc

    2020 - 2022

    Project title: “Fish decision making on the move”.

  • Olga Tapinova

    Msc

    2020 - 2022

    Project title: “Spin model with global inhibition for decision making”.

  • Yoav Ravid

    Msc

    2020 - 2022

    Project title: “Studies Of Simulated Membrane Shapes Driven By Active Curved Proteins”

  • Raj-Kumar Sadhu

    Post-doc

    2019 - 2022

    Project title: “Dynamics of cellular membranes”.

  • Jiayi Liu

    Visiting student

    2022 - 2022

    Project title: “Cell migration inside networks”.

  • Jonathan Ron

    Phd

    2017 - 2023

    Project title: “One-Dimensional Cell Motility Patterns”.

  • Amir Haluts

    Phd

    2019 - 2023

    Project title: “Modeling Cooperation, Group-Level Decision-Making, and Conflict Resolution in Animal Groups: a Physics-Based Approach”.

  • Raghav Sharma

    Msc

    2023 - 2024

    Project title: “Swarming midges as self-propelled particles with long-range interactions”.

  • Debsuvra Ghosh

    Post-doc

    2023 - 2024

    Project title: “Modeling the recruitment and swarming of immune cells in response to wounding”.

  • Jonathan Ron

    Post-doc

    2023 - 2024

    Project title: “One-Dimensional Cell Motility Patterns”.