Noga Aharony

Overview

Titles

Graduate Research Assistant (DSB)

Lab

Mohammed AlQuraishi

Noga Aharony  is a Ph.D. candidate at the AlQuraishi lab. Her research focuses on how to represent data collected in biology, such as genomes and proteomes, in a manner that better enables their analysis. Currently, she is utilizing machine learning architectures derived from state space models to construct a foundational genome language model. This model could help annotate and characterize the vast corpus of DNA sequences whose function is unknown and help generate whole genomes for synthetic biology applications.

Education History

M.Sc. Biology, Technion Institute
B.Sc. Neuroscience, McGill University

Publications

Liang C, Wagstaff J, Aharony N, Schmit V, Manheim D. Managing the Transition to Widespread Metagenomic Monitoring: Policy Considerations for Future Biosurveillance. Health Secur. 2023 Jan-Feb;21(1):34-45. 

Milman O, Yelin I, Aharony N, Katz R, Herzel E, Ben-Tov A, Kuint J, Gazit S, Chodick G, Patalon T, Kishony R. Community-level evidence for SARS-CoV-2 vaccine protection of unvaccinated individuals. Nat Med. 2021 Aug;27(8):1367-1369.

Yelin I, Aharony N, Tamar ES, Argoetti A, Messer E, Berenbaum D, Shafran E, Kuzli A, Gandali N, Shkedi O, Hashimshony T, Mandel-Gutfreund Y, Halberthal M, Geffen Y, Szwarcwort-Cohen M, Kishony R. Evaluation of COVID-19 RT-qPCR Test in Multi sample Pools. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 19;71(16):2073-2078

Moço PD, Aharony N, Kamen A. Adeno-Associated Viral Vectors for Homology-Directed Generation of CAR-T Cells. Biotechnol J. 2020 Jan;15(1):e1900286.