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Group Members

David Omer

David Omer

Principal Investigator

David Omer studies the neural circuits the undelie complex behaviors. He trained with Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann Institute.), Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute) and with Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute). His laboratory studies the physiology of brain networks engaged in cognitive process which enable us humans to navigate seemingly in physical & social spaces, as well as the neural evolution of vocal communication and language in nonhuman primates.

Guy Oren

Guy Oren

Graduate student

Guy is a graduate student in Neuroscience at the Omer Lab. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychobiology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he first developed an interest in neuroscience. During his undergraduate studies, he worked with neuron cultures to study Huntington's disease as a research assistant in the Meshorer Lab at the Life Sciences Institute. He also interned in the field of psychoneuroimmunology in the Yirmiya Lab at the Psychology Department, where he became interested in the neural correlates of behavior. His growing passion for hippocampal research led him to join the Omer Lab, where he is now studying hippocampal coding of space and abstract concepts in the context of natural behavior.

Hadar Frey

Hadar Frey

Undergraduate student

Computer Science

Roni Cohen

Roni Cohen

Lab Manager & MSc. Student

Roni is the lab manager of the Omer Lab. She earned her BSc in Biology and Cognition from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Fascinated by the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviors, she continued her studies in neuroscience and is currently pursuing a master’s degree, focusing on developing an in-vivo localization method for tetrodes using MRI-CT fusion.

Eitan Yisraeli

Eitan Yisraeli

Graduate student

I completed my undergraduate degree in Biology at the Hebrew University. Soon after, I developed a strong interest in Neurobiology, particularly in Behavioral Neuroscience. During my masters, I investigated how individuals from different social groups (self, cage mates, strangers) are represented in the brain. To further advance in this field, I joined the Omer Lab at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) for my doctorate, where I am currently studying how territoriality is represented in the hippocampus.

Reuven Lifshitz

Reuven Lifshitz

Graduate student

Computational Neuroscience

Talia Sternberg

Talia Sternberg

M.Sc. student

Computer Science

Alumni

Ehud Vinpinsky                   Current position: Postdoc @CNRS, Paris, France. 

Roni Stein                               Current position:  Product analyst @Tymely

Jonathan Navott                Current position: Graduate student in computer science @Oxford University, UK.

Einat Sarig                              Current position: Software engineer @Microsoft

Aner Shapira                         Current position: Medical student @Tel-Aviv University, Israel.   

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