Consensus on the definitions and guidelines for antibiotic persistence
Balaban NQ., et al.. Nature Reviews Microbiology 2019
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Congratulations Irit for winning the Hans Wiener prize!
Prestigious Hans Wiener prize for Irit Levin-Reisman PhD thesis on the evo
Recent publication:(Sandler,Pearl-Mizrahi. et al, Nature 2015)
Lineage correlations of single cell division time as a probe of
cell-cycle dynamics.
Oded Sandler*,Sivan Pearl Mizrahi*,Noga Weiss,Oded Agam,Itamar Simon & Nathalie Q. Balaban
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7544/full/nature14318.html
We all see ourselves as a consequence of what we have inherited and absorbed from our ancestors.
In a population of dividing cells in which each daughter cell inherits a similar genetic content and experiences
similar environment, this principle should be even more pronounced, such that along a lineage of cells,
we expect to find a boring uniformity in most traits.
Congratulations to Ofer Fridman
for receiving the prestigious Rotschild Post-doctoral Fellowship
Recent publication:(Fridman O. et al, Nature 2014)
Bacteria Evolve a Lag Time that Matches the Duration of Antibiotic Treatm
Hebrew University research shows that quantitative approaches from Physics can be used to address fundamental as well as clinically relevant issues in Biology.
(Fridman O. et al, Nature 2014)
The hidden life of MG1655
Phase-variation in common E.coli strains
Typical cultures of MG1655 contain about 50-50% variation in phage e14. See Goldberg et al., 2014