B.Sc. Agroecology and Plant Health. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

M.Sc. Agroecology and Plant Health. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

I am a first-year PhD student in the MCO program, rotating in the Extavour lab. I completed my undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Agroecology and Plant Health at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I worked on designing a CRISPR-based gene drive system to control populations of the malaria vector, Anopheles gambiae. I’m currently interested in the evolution and development of the germ line, as well as exploring genetic tools for studying non-model insects.

Targeting mosquito X-chromosomes reveals complex transmission dynamics of sex ratio distorting gene drives. (2024) Daniella An Haber, Yael Arien, Lee Benjamin Lamdan, Yehonathan Alcalay, Chen Zecharia, Flavia Krsticevic, Elad Shmuel Yonah, Rotem Daniel Avraham, Elzbieta Krzywinska, Jaroslaw Krzywinski, Eric Marois, Nikolai Windbichler & Philippos Aris Papathanos. Nature Communications 15: 4983