It was an honor and a pleasure to give a talk at the College de France this week, and meet colleagues in Paris.  As an added bonus, I stumbled onto these ancient dice (Egyptian) in the Louvre...
youtube.com/watch?v=2FI34B…

Warmly recommend, this fellowship for post docs gives you a community and great soft skills training.

For Israeli students interested in soft matter and/or biophysics, you are invited to register and attend this upcoming symposium:
biosoftweizmann.com/about-5-1
It will give you a flavor of the breadth of research and the interdisciplinary problems studied at Weizmann in this context.

Check out the Kupcinet-Getz International Summer Program Weizmann Institute bit.ly/3VxJCXI a great opportunity to visit and get a taste of science.

Our new ms in collaboration with Amir Lab Ariel Amir in bioRxiv sheds a new light on processes that rate-limit cell division in E. coli and proposes a new model for what triggers the onset of constriction.
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A fun twist on the classic Luria-Delbruck experiment, motivated by recent DNA-repair experiments arxiv.org/abs/2402.13339

Work with Ph.D. student Deng Pan, and Prof. Jie Lin from PKU Jie Lin

עבודה עם המוחות המבריקים ביותר, הציוד המתקדם ביותר ושיתופי הפעולה האיכותיים בעולם. רוצה גם? היום הפתוח לתואר שני של מכון ויצמן למדע ממש מעבר לפינה >>

Congratulations to Prof. Ariel Amir, the new Chair of the Physics school

Our paper is out today in nature! Imagine getting this plot when studying single-cell data of growing bacteria! Could it be the cell cycle?! We found that a gene’s response to its replication reveals gene regulation on a genomic scale.
nature.com/articles/s4158… Andrew Pountain

I love stochastic models, extreme value statistics, and biological physics, so it's exciting when they all come together... Fantastic collaboration with the Needleman lab on the temporal dynamics of mitotic error correction
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Long in the making, Ido Golding and I wrote a Colloquium for Reviews of Modern Physics (narrower in scope than a regular review article), on the coupling of gene expression and the cell cycle:

arxiv.org/abs/2311.12143

Escapism: My visit to Japan this summer seems like a distant dream, but this gift from Prof. Toshi Nakagaki reminds me of one of the trip highlights, seeing under the microscope some of the amazing organisms his lab studies

Vivian Silver, a prominent Canadian-Israeli peace and women's rights activist is confirmed dead after it was thought that she was kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas. Her body has now been identified.

The monsters murdered Vivian who dedicated her life to peace and aid to muslims.

Please read.
Amir summarizes many of my thoughts on the situation, except that my family was not close to death a month ago like his own family.

Hard to celebrate scientific achievements when we are still mourning the tragedies of 7/10.

Camilla's work on Salmonella subpopulations driving adaptation to nutrient limitation is out Current Biology.

sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

*Terror doesn't care about your poticial views and actions*

Vivian Silver is a Canadian Israeli peace activist and women's rights activist. Silver worked within her kibbutz to organize job training programs to help Gazans. Silver volunteered to transport Gazan patients who were