People
We are part of the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv University.
Amiyaal Ilany
Principal investigator amiyaal@tauex.tau.ac.ilAmiyaal studied biology and computer science at Tel Aviv University, where he also did his MSc and PhD in zoology. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis at the University of Tennessee and then at the University of Pennsylvania. He ran his lab at Bar-Ilan University from 2016 and moved it to Tel Aviv University in 2024, where he is an associate professor.
He suspects he was born in the wrong era: 35 million years ago, Africa had hyraxes the size of a rhino.
PhD students
Mona Blyer
How gut bacteria spread between hyrax groups across the Judean Desert
Prameek Kannan
Social ties, diet and the hyrax gut microbiome
Asaf Tamam
The hyrax genome and a catalogue of its gut microbes
MSc students
Shirel Lax
How the hyrax gut microbiome changes over time
Nimrod Mazal Tov
Wolves and other predators around Ein Gedi
Ayana Rosenthal
Finding species from DNA caught in spider webs
Lab manager
Neta Morag
Alumni
Camille Bordes
Social network dynamics in rock hyraxes
Nikola Dragić
Multilayer social networks in Arabian babblers
Hunter Warick
Shir Ben-Shaanan
