I am an associate professor at the department of Zoology of Tel-Aviv University (Israel). My research interests concern various aspects of molecular evolution with a focus on phylogenomics (reconstructing evolutionary relationships among species) and genome evolution (understanding genome evolutionary dynamics). My work concerns distant animal groups such as rodents, sponges, myxozoans, or tunicates and I am using high throughput sequencing approaches together with bioinformatics tools in order to reconstruct animal evolution. In collaboration with Dr. Jerri Bartholomew, we are studying the evolution of mitochondrial genome organization in Myxozoa.

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Education

Ph.D. in Biology, University Montpellier II France