Preeclampsia has two molecular subtypes

Our preeclampsia study is now out in Med! We are hugely proud of this somewhat unexpected work outside the nervous system, which came out of an excellent clinical collaboration with obstetrician Ido Solt of Rambam Health Care Campus, and Simcha Yagel at Hadassah in Jerusalem. Preeclampsia is a disorder affecting 5-7% of all pregnancies, where…

So long, Etay! and thanks for all the dumplings

Etay left us for new ventures – but not without a proper send-off! We cooled off with a morning hike in the spring, Osnat crafted her infamous bespoke graduation hat, and guided by Lin, we all got to make – and eat – wonderful veggie dumplings. Thank you Etay for everything, we will miss your…

Preeclampsia Down Under

In March, Niv and Inbal presented their work at the 70th Meeting of the Society for Reproductive Investigation, in Brisbane, Australia. Inbal was awarded the President’s Plenary Award.We are so proud of you both!

Counting cells in many, many brains

In a project led by David Elkind, Master student with Noam Shental of OpenU, we made use of hundreds of full brains imaged by the Allen Mouse Brain Connectivity Atlas. The atlas used autofluorescence in the red channel for anatomic alignment– and we saw that cell nuclei lacked this autofluorescence. David trained a DNN to…

Summer heat breakfast

In the peak of Israeli summer, we enjoyed a breakfast together and marked several occasions – Our talented, lovely Polina is taking off to new adventures. She has supported us technically since the early Zeisel lab days and recently completed her Bachelor work – congratulations, and thank you!And, Lin’s family was finally able to join…