Speaker
Dr. Yoesef E. Maruvka
Lokey center for life science and engineering Technion, Israel
Biography :
Yosef earned a dual major in Physics and Math from Bar-Ilan University, followed by a Masters and PhD in physics focused on applying statistical mechanics to population genetics and evolutionary biology. He then completed a post-doctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard where he developed methods to detect mutations in repetitive regions of the genome. In 2020, he founded the Cancer Genomics Evolution lab at the Technion, leading a team focused on understanding early tumorigenic steps and developing methods for analyzing genomic data.
