The Team
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Dr. Inbal Ben-Ami Bartal
Principle investigator
Nataly Urshansky
Estherina Trachtenberg
P.hD candidate, Sagol school of Neuroscience.
Estherina's research focuses on the influence of the social environment on immune function through neuro-immune pathways. She is also a trained nurse.
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Keren Ruzal
PhD candidate, Sagol school of Neuroscience.
Interested in the neural correlates of helping behavior. Using behavioral, chemogenetic and optogenetic tools in rats to study how group identity influences the decision to help others, and which brain area(s) are involved in this processing.
Ben Kantor
PhD Candidate
Ben is an expert in computer vision and his research focuses on developing AI tools for analysis of neural activity. Creator of Brainways
Bar Shvalbo
PhD Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Bar is interested in interactions of the environment with development, and is researching the effect of early life events on social development.
Reut Hazani
PhD Candidate
Reut is a joint PhD candidate with Prof. Aron Weller at Bar-Ilan University. Reut is researching the effects of early life stress on pro-social behavior.
Hila Flumin
M.Sc Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Hila focuses on the effects of prosocial behavior on alcohol addiction, and is a dopamine affectionado.
Freya Prein
M.Sc Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Freya focuses on the role of serotonin in prosocial behavior and is a big behavior fan
Adin Roemer
M.Sc Candidate
Sagol School of Neuroscience
Adin is working on in vivo neural activity recordings from the prosocial brain network and audio expert
Lab Alumni
Dr. Einat Bigelman
Lab manager
Einat is a Molecular biologist, with expertise in histology and animal physiology.