You are kindly invited to join us in celebrating the achievements of our talented young researchers at the IMRIC Young Researcher Q1 2026 Paper Award Ceremony.

The ceremony will take place on Monday  June 8th @ 12:00 in Rubin Auditorium and will include short presentations by the authors of these outstanding papers.

The awardees in this cycle are:

Osama Hidmi  (Rami Aqeilan lab) for his paper:

Hidmi, O., Shatleh, D., Oster-Flayshman, S., Monin, J., & Aqeilan, R. I. (2026). Superenhancers shape the landscape and repair dynamics of transcription-associated DNA breaks in cancer. Science Advances, 12, eaeb6379. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aeb6379

Chiara Mazzoni (Moran Yassour lab) and Bracha-Lea Ochana (Yuval Dor lab) for their paper:

Mazzoni, C., Ochana, B. L., Orlanski-Meyer, E., Ben Ya'acov, A., Focht, G., Harpenas, E., Shmorak, S., Ledder, O., Lev-Tzion, R., Shemer, R., Shteyer, E., Dor, Y., & Yassour, M. (2026). Human DNA levels in feces reflect gut inflammation and associate with presence of gut species in IBD patients across the age spectrum. Microbiome, 14(1), 104. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-026-02344-6

Lior Matityahu (Josh Goldberg lab) ) for his paper:

Matityahu, L., Hobel, Z.B., Berkowitz, N., Gilin, N., Plotkin, J.P., and Goldberg., J.A. (2026)

Synchronous activation of striatal cholinergic interneurons induces local serotonin release. Nat Commun 17, 2278.

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70359-6

 

We congratulate all the students and researchers who published beautiful papers this quarter.
 

Due to the present situation, we have decided to move the award ceremony scheduled for June 8th to ZOOM. We would still very much like to hold the ceremony as planned. This change is intended to ensure that everyone can participate safely and conveniently.

This is the Zoom link – https://huji.zoom.us/my/ittaibp

Looking forward to seeing you there!