2026
08/2026
Noga's recent Nature Communications paper was highlighted by Weizmann Wonder Wander, "The DNA Repair Crew Has Favorites".
07/2026
Yuval's recent Nucleic Acids Research paper received the highest methodological novelty score in the Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ISBCB) Selected Paper Award.
07/2026
Yumi won a Lindau Spirit Fellowship award to attend the 75th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, where she presented her talk entitled "Breaking Bad or Breaking Good: DNA Mechanical Strain Steers Protein Recognition".
06/2026 - New paper!
Our study, “Mapping DNA glycosylase binding across lesion sequence contexts reveals extended sequence and structural recognition logic,” was published in Nature Communications.
06/2026
Golan graduated from his MSc degree - Mazal Tov!
06/2026
Yumi was named to Forbes Israel's "30 Under 30" list in recognition of her impact on science and biotechnology in Israel.
04/2026
Yuval won a PhD fellowship from the Institute for Environmental Sustainability (IES) at the Weizmann Institute.
03/2026
The lab welcomed its newest junior member! Mazal tov to PhD student Tamir and his partner Aluma on the birth of their son, Dagan Shalom.
03/2026
Irina visited the Somoza laboratory at the Technical University of Munich and the University of Vienna for a 5-week research stay supported by the award of a Minerva Foundation short-term research grant.
02/2026
Irina presented at the 2nd Meeting on Early Embryogenesis and Epigenetics at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics, Berlin, Germany.
02/2026
Mike and Lihee presented at the 89th Israel Chemical Society Annual Meeting in Tel Aviv. Lihee won a poster prize for her presentation, “Uncovering the structural basis of FOXO3a specificity: insights from systematic protein and DNA mutagenesis.”
01/2026
Noga won the Perlman Award.
2025
12/2025
Yumi won the Clifford Felder Prize for excellent PhD students at the Weizmann Institute.
12/2025 - New paper!
Our study, “DNA methylation shapes transcription factor binding beyond canonical CpG contexts,” was published in PNAS.
11/2025 - New paper!
Our study, “Quantifying transcription factor specificity with advanced DNA universal microarrays featuring long and modified binding sites,” was published in Nucleic Acids Research.
09/2025
Artemy presented at the EMBO Workshop: DNA topology and topoisomerases in genome dynamics in Szklarska Poreba, Poland.
09/2025
Tamir and Mike presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting on Digital Nucleic Acid Photolithography in Freising, Germany.
08/2025
Yuval, Tamir, and Ariel presented at the Mechanisms of Eukaryotic Transcription meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York, USA.
07/2025
Yumi participated in the AION Labs Challenge where she was selected as a co-founder candidate to join the challenge “Generative AI for Novel Target Combinations”.
06/2025
Yuval graduated from his MSc degree - Mazal Tov!
07/2025
Noga and Ariel presented at the Fusion 8th Nucleic Acids Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. Noga won a poster prize for her presentation, “High-throughput measurement of nucleic acid-modifying proteins: mechanistic insights and functional consequences.”
03/2025
Yumi won the prize for best talk at the 1st ChemLife Research Symposium held at Bar-Ilan University, Tel Aviv.
2024
12/2024
Yumi won the Teva BIO-MIX-2024 Competition. Her proposal for a tuberculosis breath test was voted No.1 by both the audience and judging panels. Yumi's success was reported in Yedioth Ahronoth (Ynet), one of Israel's national newspapers, online and in print. Read the article here!
10/2024
Mike won the 'Dean's Fellowship'. Great Job, Mike.
09/2024
Tamir completed his MSc degree. Congratulations!
07/2024 - New paper!
Our review, "Deciphering the dynamic code: DNA recognition by transcription factors in the ever-changing genome," was published in Transcription.
05/2024
Noga Carmon completed her MSc degree. Mazal Tov Noga!
05/2024
Yumi was selected for the FGS Dean Award of Excellence in Physics/Chemistry/Math & CS-oriented research for Outstanding International Doctoral Students.
05/2024
Iri won the Environmental Sustainability (IES) Doctoral Fellowship.
04/2024
Our first 'Next Generation Baby' was born. Welcome Re'em. Mazal Tov Tamir and Aluma!
04/2024
Yumi had three collaborative projects that won the 8th Systems Biology innovative award.
03/2024
Yumi won the National Forum for BioInnovator-Teva PhD Fellowship.
03/2024
Noga Levy completed her MSc degree. Mazal Tov Noga!
01/2024
Yumi won the Pearlman Student Fellowship.
2023
08/2023 - New paper!
Our work with Dr. Muhammad Jbara from Tel-Aviv University, "Deciphering the Role of the Ser-Phosphorylation Pattern on the DNA-Binding Activity of Max Transcription Factor Using Chemical Protein Synthesis," was published in Angewandte Chemie.
06/2023
Our DNA printer arrives to Israel. Can't wait to print our first chip.
05/2023
Our first Postdoc joins the lab. Good luck, Mike!
04/2023
Our PNAS paper "UV irradiation remodels the specificity landscape of transcription factors," is highlighted in a PNAS commentary, "Transcription and DNA repair collide after UV exposure," by Richard O. Adeyemi.
04/2023
Finally!!! We are moving to our new lab.
03/2023 - New paper!
Our study, "UV irradiation remodels the specificity landscape of transcription factors," is published in PNAS.
02/2023
Ariel is an invited speaker at the 10th ILANIT conference in Eilat, Israel.
02/2023
Ariel speaks at the Fusion 7th Nucleic Acids Conference, Cancun, Mexico.
02/2023
Ariel is an invited speaker at the MRC Human Genetics Unit Seminar, Edinburgh, Scotland.
2022
12/2022
Ariel's 2020 Nature paper "DNA mismatches reveal conformational penalties in protein–DNA recognition" was described as a "fundamental discovery" in the Nature Editorial "In praise of research in fundamental biology".
11/2022
Ariel spoke at ‘Specificity Determinants of Biomolecular Interactions’, Weizmann Institute, Israel.
11/2022
Ariel won the Alon Fellowship for outstanding young faculty.
11/2022
Chen joined the lab.
10/2022
Ariel organized and spoke at ‘Protein-DNA Interactions: from Biophysics to Cell Biology’, Weizmann Institute, Israel.
09/2022
The renovation of the permanent lab starts!
09/2022
Our first Ph.D. students joined the lab. Welcome Iri and Yumi.
08/2022
Ariel spoke at the Gordon Research Conference, USA. ‘DNA Topoisomerases in Biology and Medicine.’
08/2022
Artemy is joining the lab.
07/2022
Our research grant proposal on ‘High-throughput investigation of the protein-DNA recognition code using mismatched, bulged and nicked DNA’ was funded by the ISF (Israel Science Foundation) grant.
07/2022
Our first MSc students joined the lab. Welcome Noga L., Noga C., and Tamir.
04/2022
Our collaboration with Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates was funded.
04/2022
Naama joined the lab.
03/2022
First successful "on-chip" protein-DNA binding experiment in the lab. Many more will come!
2021
12/2021
Vered joined the lab.
09/2021
Ariel arrived as a new faculty member (Assistant Professor) to the Department of Chemical and Structural Biology in the Weizmann Institute of Science.