Group
Prof. Nir Gov
Principal investigator
The Lee and William Abramowitz Professorial Chair of Biophysics
Email nir.gov@weizmann.ac.il Phone +972-8-934-3323-
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Dr. Arik Yochelis
Consultant
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”.