PhD and MSc Theses

Advisor	ASSOCIATE PROF. Ruth Hershberg
Advisor’s Email	ruthersh@technion.ac.il
Advisor’s Home-Site	https://hershberg.net.technion.ac.il
No of theses	8
Department	Medicine
Department Web Site	md.technion.ac.il

Student’s Name	Graduation Year	Degree	Abstracts	Research Name
Hilau Sabrin	2024	PhD	Abstracts	Characterizing the Variation in Growth and Death Dynamics between Closely Related Escherichia Coli Strains and Linking it to their Genetic Variation
Cohen Yasmin	2023	PhD	Abstracts	Patterns of Occurrence and Persistence of Rapid Genetic Adaptations within the RNA Polymerase Core Enzyme
Gross Jonathan	2023	PhD	Abstracts	Influence of Experimental Design on the Dynamics of Adaptation under Prolonged Resource Exhaustion
Bolotin Evgeni	2018	PhD	Abstracts	Evolution of Gene-Content Variation in Bacterial Genomes
Galili Sheli	2018	PhD	Abstracts	The Somatic Evolution of Cancer
Yannai Adi	2018	MSc	Abstracts	The Codon Usage of Lowly Expressed Genes is Subject to Natural Selection
Savkin Michal	2017	MSc	Abstracts	Codon Usage Optimization and Horizontal Gene Transfer via Bacteriophage Transduction
Field Wesley	2015	MSc	Abstracts	Alarmingly High Segregation Frequencies of Quinolone Resistance Alleles within Human and Animal Microbiomes are not Explained by Clinical Antibiotic Exposure