UPCOMING EVENTS

May 17-19, 2022 - Viviane will teach in the 'Genetics for archaeologists' workshop organized by ICArEHB in Faro, Portugal

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May 23-25, 2022 - Lab members will participate in the 'Ancient human genomes' session of the 25th Human Genome meeting in Tel Aviv

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September 27-29, 2022 - Insights Into Human History in the Eurasian Stone Age meeting in Sendai, Japan

April 2022 - Public outreach event! Viviane talked about "digging for DNA", and her experience as a woman in STEM, at the "Café des Sciences" in Tel Aviv

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April 2022 - MSc student Amit Bergman presented a poster on his work at the TAU Research Fair

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April 2022 - Invited talk at the Annual Meeting of the Genetics Society of Israel at Ben-Gurion University

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March 2022 - Our project on sedimentary ancient DNA analysis, in collaboration with the Moorjani lab, has been selected for funding by the KBTI. See here for an open post-doctoral position!

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January 2022 - Viviane is now a member of the advisory board of the sedaDNA scientific society

December 2021 - Viviane talked about ancient DNA in sediments from Israel at the Annual Meeting of the Israel Prehistoric Society

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November 2021 - Viviane gave a seminar on paleogenetics at the Lautenberg Center for Immunology and Cancer Research (HUJI)

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November 2021 - Viviane talked about ancient sedimentary DNA at the University of Liverpool Evolutionary Anthropology Webinar

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October 2021 - New paper! We report on the discovery of the Middle Paleolithic site of Horashim East

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October 2021 - Nihan Dilşad Dağtaş joins us as a PhD student. Welcome Nihan!

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October 2021 - Amit Deligdish joins the lab as an MSc student. Welcome to the team Amit!

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October 2021 - Amit Bergman joins the lab as an MSc student. Welcome Amit!

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September 2021 - Viviane is awarded a Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award (Genetics Society of America and the Gruber Foundation)

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June 2021 - Viviane speaks about the future of Ancient DNA research at the event in honor of Prof. (emeritus) Baruch Arensburg

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June 2021 - Public outreach event! Viviane chats about what ancient DNA can tell us about our past in a Bergamo Scienza event

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June 2021 - Viviane talks about ancient DNA from sediments in Israel at the 9th International Symposium on Biomolecular Archaeology

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May 2021 - Group trip with members of the Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory

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April 2021 - First sediment sampling trip of the new lab -- the beginning of our ancient sedimentary DNA work!

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April 2021 - Dr. Azhar Jabareen joins us as wet lab manager. Welcome Azhar!

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March 2021 - Viviane presents work on ancient sediment DNA at the "Ancient Biomolecules of Plants, Animals and Microbes" conference

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February 2021 - Itsik Dishon joins the lab as an MSc student. Welcome Itsik!

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February 2021 - Viviane participates in the kick-off meeting of the ERC-funded "Quina World" project

December 2020 - We are hiring! Interested in joining us? See details here

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December 2020 - Viviane presents her work on sediment DNA at the 2020 meeting of the Israeli Society of Evolutionary Biology

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December 2020 - Viviane is a keynote speaker at the Computational Genomics and Systems Biology 2020 Symposium

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December 2020 - Viviane is the keynote speaker of the ScienceAbroad & Teva Life Sciences Symposium

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November 2020 - Viviane participates in the Virtual Workshop on Ethics in Ancient DNA Research

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October 2020 - Viviane participates in the "Nurturing Women Scientist" event at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine (TAU)

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October 2020 - Dr Alessio Gerussi joins the lab as a short-term visiting PhD student. Welcome Alessio!

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October 2020 - Viviane starts the ancient DNA research group. Here we go!