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Trident Bat (Asellia tridens)

MEET the TEAM

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Prof. Yossi Yovel

PHD Students

Guy Zer

Guy Zer

Bees’ sensing and navigation

Liraz Attia

Liraz Attia

Social learning in Egyptian fruit bats

Goni Naamani

Goni Naamani

Decision making in the Egyptian fruit bat

Ksenia Krivoruchko

Ksenia Krivoruchko

Communication and decision making in freely behaving bats

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Adi Rachum

​Changes in behavior of Egyptian fruit bats in captivity and the wild

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Tal Sasson

Decision-making and Navigation in bats ( Rhinopoma microphyllum and Rousettus aegyptiacus)

Marie Guggenberger

Marie Guggenberger

Vocalizations and acoustic networks in the Arabian babbler (Argya squamiceps)

Omer Mazar

Omer Mazar

Why a jamming avoidance response does not help bats deal with jamming

Xing Chen

Xing Chen

Echolocating bat navigation, on a large scale map using machine learning methods

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Samuel Suarez-Ronay

Developing eco-acoustics with a focus on marine soundscapes (with Yoni Belmaker)

PHD Students

M.sc Students

Tal Yosef

Tal Yosef

​Weighting the effects of the olfactory, visual, and tactile sensory systems in Rousettus aegyptiacus during foraging

Yuval Mendelson

Yuval Mendelson

Models in Bioacoustics and Biodiversity

Nick Payne

Nick Payne

Investigating foraging behavior and decisions in Leptonycteris yerbabuenae; understanding social and frequency hopping calls in Molossus rufus

Almog Brazili-Sigal

Almog Barzilay-Siegal

Aging processes - Genetic, behavioral and imaging measures, using bats as a new animal model

Shirel Senkar

Shirel Senkar

Transmission pattern characterization of the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria in a colony of fruit bats

Post Docs

Aleksandra Panyutina

Aleksandra Panyutina

Morphological framework of the tongue click echolocation in fruit bats

M.sc Students

Staff Members

Alumni

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Yifat Tarnovsky

Understanding the compensation mechanisms for the broad dynamic range of sensory input received in the hearing system

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Dean Zigdon

​Inter colony movement dynamics of the Egyptian fruit bat through reverse GPS system

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Sahar Hajyahia

Are social and echolocation vocalizations learned from the parent or innate

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Ofri Eitan

Vocal based coordinated group flight in bats and birds

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Yomiran Nissan

The genetic basis of behavior in the Egyptian fruit bat

Dr. Maya Weinberg 

Dr. Maya Weinberg 

​Basic Physiology and Microbiology of Fruit bats: the influence of the fruit bat microbiota on the social behavior in the colony.

Dr. Lee Harten

Dr. Lee Harten

Social dynamics of the Egyptian fruit bat.

Dr. Grace Smarsh

Dr. Grace Smarsh

Communication and learning in Egyptian fruit bats and common noctules

Dr. Orit Dashevsky

Dr. Orit Dashevsky

Learning of a new sense (biosonar) by a mammal

Katarina Biljman

Katarina Biljman

Spatial navigation through sound

Dr. Rya Seltzer

Dr. Rya Seltzer

Plant-insect interaction in the acoustic dimension

Mor Refael

Mor Refael

CRISPER in bats

Dr. Aya Goldshtein

Dr. Aya Goldshtein

Movement ecology

Sam Litvin

Sam Litvin

Bat echolocation and applied bat echolocation

Nesim Gonceer

Nesim Gonceer

Studying Egyptian fruit bat personality  through captive experiments and GPS tracking

Tal Reisfeld

Tal Reisfeld

Sleep quality’s influence on navigation in the Egyptian fruit bat

Dr. Stefan Greif

Dr. Stefan Greif

GPS assisted movement ecology of bats: sensory perception, dynamic environments and strategies

Itamar Eliakim

Itamar Eliakim

Agricultural robotics SLAMC (simultaneous localization, mapping and classification)

Arkadi Rafalovich

Arkadi Rafalovich

Relative localization of sensor nodes based on IMU & Barometer & BLE,11-DOF sensor fusion

Dr. Zohar Tal

Dr. Zohar Tal

Brain imaging of neural plasticity in bats

Michal Handel

Michal Handel

Decision making in the Egyptian fruit bat – integration of personal and social information

Dr. Sasha Danilovich

Dr. Sasha Danilovich

Multimodal perception and decision making in the Egyptian fruit bat

Dr. Eran Amichai

Dr. Eran Amichai

Echolocation: flexibility, learning and behavior

Dr. Yosef Prat

Dr. Yosef Prat

Vocal communication of the Egyptian fruit bat

Dana Ravid

Dana Ravid

Multi-sensory spatial memory

Noam Cvikel

Noam Cvikel

Echolocation and Optimal Foraging in Free Ranging Bats

Dr. Gadi Blumrosen

Dr. Gadi Blumrosen

Do bats alter their echolocation properties, in response to other bats, in order to minimize collision

Pavel Kounitsky

Pavel Kounitsky

FM Bats Dynamic Beam forming

(with Anthony Weiss - Electrical Engineering)

Shalom Elkayam

Shalom Elkayam

Sound localization using single microphone and passive reflectors.

(with Anthony Weiss - Electrical Engineering)

Roee Finkelshtain

Roee Finkelshtain

An agricultural mobile robot guided by sonar and vision for crops and yield estimation. 

(with Gabor Kosa - Mechanical engineering)

Omri Zomet

Omri Zomet

The evolution of the mammalian connectome - structural connectivity across the mammalian class.

​(with Yaniv Assaf - Department of Neurobiology)

Gal Schechter

Gal Schechter

The use of vision for navigation by the Egyptian fruit bat

Lindsay Azoulay

Lindsay Azoulay

​Bat dialects and sociality

Dr. Shannon Currie

Dr. Shannon Currie

Cardiorespiratory function and neurophysiology of heterothermic bats

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