People

Tamar Friedlander

Principal Investigator

PhD Physics

MSc EE

BSc Physics & Math (Talpiot)

tamar.friedlander@mail.huji.ac.il

Open positions

Lab Collaborators

Rok Grah, IST Austria
Yitzhak Pilpel, Weizmann
Alon Samach, HUJI
Nicolas F. Martin , University of Illinois
Ohad-Noy Feldheim, HUJI

Post-doc

Amit Jangid

Post-doc (joined in April 2022)

PhD Physics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (2022)

MSc Physics, Central University of Rajasthan, Ajmer (2015)

E: amitjangid050@gmail.com W: https://amitjangid.github.io

Amit is studying how different selection pressures shape the evolution of the plant collaborative non-self recognition (CNSR) system in panmictic and structured populations.

amitjangid050@gmail.com

MSc

Ben Stescovich

MSc student (joined in 2024)

BSc Marine Biotechnology, Ruppin Academic Center (2022)

E: bensho3@gmail.com

The self-incompatibility mechanism in plants is based on specific molecular recognition between ad-hoc proteins expressed in the male and female reproductive organs. Ben joined the lab in Fall 2024 as an MSc student. He is studying how the protein's mechanical flexibility affects the evolution of its binding domain.

bensho3@gmail.com

Raz Samet-Shenvald

MSc student (joined in 2025)

BSc Biochemistry, food science, and agro-informatics, The Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2024)

E: raz.shenvald@mail.huji.ac.il

She is using mathematical modeling to study the signal processing of the plant’s ABA receptors, which induce the plant drought response.

bensho3@gmail.com

Or Shahuda

MSc student (joined in 2026)

BSc Mathematics and Chemistry, Tel Aviv university (2021)

Jointly supervised by Ohad Noy Feldheim, HUJI Jerusalem

E: or.shahuda@mail.huji.ac.il

The self-incompatibility mechanism seems to impose quite a rigid mathematical structure on the ability of plants to fertilize one another. Or is using a simplified mathematical model to reconstruct this structure and understand its dynamics.

bensho3@gmail.com