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Lab News
2024
- Peleg Ragonis-Bachar won the “Paper of the month award” at the Technion Faculty of Biology! Following her recent intriguing work on predicting Antimicrobial amyloids with AlphaFold
2023
- Peleg Ragonis-Bachar presented at EMBOComp3D even amidst challenging circumstances. See post on X
- Peleg Ragonis-Bachar has been awarded with the VATAT (Israel Council for Higher Education) scholarship for outstanding PhD students in Data Science!!!
- Bader Rayan has been awarded with the Neubauer Family Foundation doctoral fellowship!!!
- Bader Rayan won the “Paper of the month award” at the Technion Faculty of Biology! Following his fascinating findings on S. aureus PSMs amyloid stability
- Congratulations to Nimrod Golan for giving his PhD graduation seminar!
- Congratulations to Peleg for publishing a review with Peter Lipke on .
“Sticking to the Subject: 2Multifunctionality in Microbial Adhesins”
2022
- Bader Rayan has been awarded with the Technion’s Leonard and Diane Sherman Interdisciplinary student fellowship!!!
2021
- Peleg Ragonis-Bachar has been awarded with the Technion’s Jacobs student fellowship!!!
- Yizhaq (itzik) Engelberg has been awarded with the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute (RBNI) student scholarship For Excellence In Nanoscience And Nanotechnology!!!
- An interview with Dr. Nir Salinas and Dr. Einav Tayeb-Fligelman (Ex-Landau Lab doctoral students and now postdocs in California) in line with the “Paper of the Month Award” by the Technion Faculty of Biology (article in Hebrew)
Related to: N. Salinas*, E. Tayeb-Fligelman*, M. Sammito, D. Bloch, R. Jelinek, D. Noy, I. Uson, and M. Landau. The Amphibian Antimicrobial Peptide Uperin 3.5 is a Cross-α/Cross-β Chameleon Functional Amyloid. PNAS January 19, 2021 118 (3) e2014442118 *Authors contributed equally
2020
- Yizhaq (itzik) Engelberg and Leehen Mashiah (in a group of four students) won first place in the EIT – international competition for innovations in the food and agriculture industry!!!
See an article about this in Ynet: הפיתוח של הסטודנטים בטכניון ששומר על המיץ (article in Hebrew)
- Yizhaq (itzik) Engelberg received the 2020 Lev Margulis Memorial Prize from The Israel Society for Microscopy (ISM)!!!! congrats!
The award committee noted that Itzik’s discovery is an “impressive achievement in the study of the structure of a human antimicrobial peptide” and that it is expected to lead to diverse applications in biotechnology, nanotechnology, antibacterial drug production, tissue restoration and more. Itzik’s findings were recently published in Nat Commun 11, 3894 (2020).
2019
- Nir Salinas gave a talk in the 69th annual meeting of American Crystallography Association
(ACA) held in Covington, Kentucky.
- Nir Salinas received the best presentation award in the Israel Crystallographic Association and Structural Biology (ICA) Meeting!
- Nir Salinas was awarded with the Clore Fellowship!!!
2018
- Einav Tayeb-Fligelman was awarded with the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) Postdoctoral fellowship!!!
- Einav Tayeb-Fligelman was awarded with the Rothschild Postdoctoral fellowship!!!
Conferences
Conference Organization
- 2019 Israel Crystallographic Association and Structural Biology Annual Meeting at the Technion! (30 May, 2019)
- Current Challenges in Amyloid Diseases: From Molecular Mechanisms to the Cell and Clinics; September 2-6, Dead Sea, Israel
- Technion, Faculty of Biology Retreat 2015
Presenting our work
Bader Rayan and Peleg Ragonis-Bachar are presenting their joint work at the Technion faculty of biology retreat March 2023.
Peleg Ragonis-Bachar giving a stunning presentation at the “Specificity Determinants of Biomolecular Interactions – commemorating the late Professor Aharon Katzir” meeting at the Weizmann institute of Science. November 2022. check tweets
The 4th Ulm Meeting on “Biophysics of Amyloid Formation”, Germany, 2020
Joint Workshop: Cooperation in Photon Science – Israel – DESY & European XFEL, Jerusalem, 2019
Lab fun and activities
Farewell party to Jacob Aunstrup Larsen, DTU, Danish-Israeli Student Program, June 2022
Lab date to Libira May 2022
Lab Trip November 2020
Wedding
Our lab members, present and past, together with faculty staff and extended family-
Celebrating the wedding of Ph.D student Nir Salinas!
Beam Time
Having fun after a long shift in the Synchrotron
After a long day in the lab
