Lab Memebers
Ashwini Gopala Krishna
Ph.D. student
Structure and Dynamics in Reconstituted Contracting Actin Networks
Ariel Westfried
Master Student
Application of local and tissue-wide forces during Hydra morphogenesis
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.
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.
Ashwini Gopala Krishna
Ph.D. student
Brief Bio
- 2019 M.Phil. in Biology National Centre for Biological Sciences – Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore.
- 2015 M.Sc. in Physics Bangalore University, Bangalore.
- 2011 B.Sc. in Physics Bangalore University, Bangalore.
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.
Iris Pasvinter
Master Student
2020 - now B.Sc. in Physics
Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.