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Lab Memebers

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Ashwini Gopala Krishna

Ph.D. student

Structure and Dynamics in Reconstituted Contracting Actin Networks
ashwini@technion.ac.il
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Olivier Mesdjian

Postdoc

Relations between actin fibers organization and calcium activity in hydra morphogenesis
mesdjiano@campus.technion.ac.il
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Ariel Westfried

Undergraduate

Application of local and tissue-wide forces during Hydra morphogenesis
wes.ariel@campus.technion.ac.il
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Yael Ascoli-Abbina

Undergraduate

yael.asc@campus.technion.ac.il
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Iris Pasvinter

Undergraduate

iris.p@campus.technion.ac.il
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Yoad Goldfaden

Undergraduate

Creating 3D movies of regenerating hydras using flourescence light sheet microscopy from multiple an
yoad@campus.technion.ac.il
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Kinneret Keren

Principal Investigator

Kinneret @technion.ac.il
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Liora Garion

Research Scientist and Lab Manager

liora.garion@technion.ac.il
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Yonit Maroudas-Sacks

Ph.D. student

The Role of Nematic Actin Organization and the Influence of Mechanical Constraints on Morphogenesis
yonit.m@campus.technion.ac.il

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.
ashwini@technion.ac.il

Olivier Mesdjian

Postdoc

Brief Bio
2022 - present - Postdoc Department of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. 2019 - 2021 - Postdoc on hydrodynamics between mucus and cilia Aix-Marseille University 2015 - 2018 - PhD on microfluidics and B cell monitoring Sorbonne University Paris
mesdjiano@campus.technion.ac.il

Ariel Westfried

Undergraduate

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

Yael Ascoli-Abbina

Undergraduate

yael.asc@campus.technion.ac.il

Iris Pasvinter

Undergraduate

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

Yoad Goldfaden

Undergraduate

yoad@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

Yonit Maroudas-Sacks

Ph.D. student

Brief Bio
  • 2016 – Present Direct Ph.D. track Department of Physics, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
  • 2015 – 2016 Researcher in theoretical Biophysics under the supervision of Dr. Assaf Zemel, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • 2012-2015 Bsc. in Physics and Biology Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
yonit.m@campus.technion.ac.il

Alumni

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.

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