Postdoc @UCSF in the Bondy-Denomy lab | Studying bacterial-phage interactions| Women in science |

San Francisco, CA
Joined April 2020
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IT’S OUT! A family of endonucleases blocks Nanotube-mediated Plasmid exchange (NPex) nature.com/articles/s41564-0… We uncovered new rules and barriers governing bacterial Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT)!
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Abstract submission is open for the SISB2026 meeting, aka Phage Defense! sisb2026.rockefeller.edu/abs… The deadline is March 16.
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Amazing findings in geometry-based immune activation! Two bacterial defence systems detect phage-encoded ring oligomers, assemble high-order molecular complexes, and trigger abortive infection. nature.com/articles/s41586-0… nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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🎉 Prof. Shulamit Michaeli from the Faculty of Life Sciences wins the Israel Prize in Life Sciences! Israel’s highest national honor for scientific excellence.
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Check this out for the 2026 SISB (phage defense) meeting in NYC. Mark your calendar! (and note the Zoom option, if needed) sisb2026.rockefeller.edu/
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The Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University is looking for outstanding scientists to join our dynamic and growing community of researchers. For full details and application instructions> Apply anytime! 🔗 life-sciences.biu.ac.il/node… ✉️ [email protected]
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Excited to share this review that summarizes almost a decade of research on the absolutely bizarre and fascinating cellular biology of jumbo bacteriophages! sciencedirect.com/science/ar… This was a lot of fun to write with @joeBondyDenomy and @AgardLab.
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Excited to put out new work led by the very hard working and meticulous Alex Hong @AshHong24 on how the tricky Gabija system stops so many different phages. Hint: phage DNA ends are really a hot battle ground. Maybe this is why there are so many ways for phages to make a circle?
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This is Evyatar David. He was kidnapped by Hamas-ISIS on October 7th, 2023 His sister shared that the family is asking everyone to repost this photo, because the mainstream media won’t. They’re too busy pushing a different narrative that doesn’t match reality and is being pushed by Hamas and Qatari owned media. Evyatar is suffering from deliberate starvation by Hamas. Even hostages who were released six months ago, severely underweight, said there was no food shortage. Their captors and the Gazans they saw were eating normally and looked well-fed. The starvation of the hostages was intentional. Hamas is looting the largest humanitarian aid operation in history delivered by a country to its enemy, and reselling it to Gazans to fund itself although they should not pay for it. Please share this photo and urge your leaders to pressure Hamas to release the hostages, step down from power, and end this war so Gaza and its people can finally begin to recover. There's always another option: You’re a hypocrite, armchair virtue signaler, and a living example of double standards.
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1. Final version of our paper on a basic tradeoff in anti-phage defense has just been published - rdcu.be/exN0X Thread with key points quoted below 👇
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Esther Shmidov retweeted
We are rebuilding 💪 nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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Incredible news out of the Weizmann Institute, just days after Iranian missiles destroyed parts of its campus. The European Research Council (ERC AdG) announced its latest grant winners. Israel took home 12. Weizmann alone won 6! To put that in perspective: Oxford University, with a faculty many times the size, won only 7. And here’s the kicker—Weizmann doesn’t even have departments in the social sciences or humanities. Still, it outperformed entire countries. A stunning achievement.
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When we came to see our destroyed labs hit by an Iranian missile, we found that a piano had survived @WeizmannScience
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48h since lab destroyed 😭😭 People safe, thx god. Deeply thankful @_MichaelBaumann @DKFZ & Otmar_Wiestler @helmholtz_en for reaching out to us w leadership & support. Will continue updating on support and leadership, while considering w colleagues our next chapter- suggestions?
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Our lab at the Weizmann Institute was hit tonight by Iran We will rebuild and return 💪
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I am still in denial. But in general, we will rebuild. Not only the lab, but also society and our country. The first thing that needs to happen is elections as we need a new leadership.
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My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.
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Esther Shmidov retweeted
Amos Tanay this morning...
מכון ויצמן התקבל בוואצאפ, אתן קרדיט אם יהיה
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