Self-organization of Biological systems

Kinneret Keren’s lab

People

Lab Memebers

Photo of Kinneret

Kinneret Keren

Principal Investigator

kinneret@technion.ac.il
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Liora Garion

Research Scientist and Lab Manager

liora.garion@technion.ac.il
Lab Memebers

Noam Dori

Master Student

The Interdependence of Electric and Mechanical fields in Hydra Regeneration
noam.dori@campus.technion.ac.il
Lab Memebers

Ariel Westfried

Master Student

Application of local and tissue-wide forces during Hydra morphogenesis
wes.ariel@campus.technion.ac.il
Lab Memebers

Yael Ascoli-Abbina

Master Student

yael.asc@campus.technion.ac.il
Lab Memebers

Iris Pasvinter

Master Student

3D Analysis of Regenerating Hydra
iris.p@campus.technion.ac.il
Lab Memebers

Ronnie Voskoboynik

Master Student

ronnie.v@campus.technion.ac.il

Kinneret Keren

Principal Investigator

Brief bio
  • 2014 – present Associate Professor (tenured) Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  • 2015 – 2016 Visiting Professor Department of Physics, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA.
  • 2008 – 2014 Assistant Professor Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  • 2003 – 2008 Postdoctoral fellow Julie Theriot’s lab, Department of Biochemistry, Stanford University Medical School, Stanford, CA, USA.
  • 2003 Ph.D. in Physics Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  • 1998 M.Sc. in Physics Weizmann Institute of Science.
  • 1996 B.Sc. in Physics and Mathematics The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
kinneret@technion.ac.il

Liora Garion

Research Scientist and Lab Manager

Brief Bio
  • 2017 – present Research Scientist and Lab Manager Department of Physics, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  • 2012 – 2016 Research Scientist Department of Medicine, Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  • 2012 Ph.D. in Medical Sciences (direct track) Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
  • 2005 B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
liora.garion@technion.ac.il

Noam Dori

Master Student

2023-present M.Sc. student in Physics 2020 - 2023 B.Sc. student in Physics Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
noam.dori@campus.technion.ac.il

Ariel Westfried

Master Student

2023-present M.Sc. student in Physics 2019 - 2023 B.Sc. student in Physics and Mathematics Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel.
wes.ariel@campus.technion.ac.il

Yael Ascoli-Abbina

Master Student

yael.asc@campus.technion.ac.il

Iris Pasvinter

Master Student

2023-present M.Sc. student in Physics 2020 - 2023 B.Sc. in Physics Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
iris.p@campus.technion.ac.il

Ronnie Voskoboynik

Master Student

2025-present M.Sc. student in Biology 2018 - 2023 B.Sc. student in Biology University of California, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
ronnie.v@campus.technion.ac.il

Alumni

Ph.D. (2019 – 2024)

Structure and Dynamics in Reconstituted Contracting Actin Networks

direct Ph.D. (2016 – 2023)

The Role of Nematic Actin Organization and the Influence of Mechanical Constraints on Morphogenesis in Hydra Regeneration

M.Sc. and Ph.D. (2016 – 2022)

The Relation between Body Axis Polarity and Mechanical Processes in Morphogenesis during Hydra Regeneration.

Ph.D. (2016 – 2020)
Dynamics and Instabilities in Confined Contractile Actin Networks.

Direct Ph.D. (2012-2018)
Scaling behavior in steady-state contractile actomyosin network flow.

Research Scientist (2014-2016)
Actin-Based Cell Motility.

Direct Ph.D. (2008-2014)
Reconstitution of actin-based motility in a cell-like compartment- toward the generation of an artificial crawling cell.

Ph.D. (2009-2014)
The dynamic interplay between membrane tension and the spatiotemporal organization of the cytoskeleton in rapidly moving cells.

Ph.D. (2009-2014)
Lamellipodial fragments as a model system of self-organization in actin-based motility.

PostDoc (2008-2012)
The Role of Membrane Tension in Actin-Based Cell Motility.