Ohad Balaga is a PhD student in the Integrated Program in Cellular, Molecular, and Biomedical Studies. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science and computational biology from the The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where his research focused on combinatorial gene regulation by microRNA and the inference of such regulation from gene expression and network data. Now working under the advisement of Raul Rabadan and Sagi Shapira, Ohad is currently studying influenza mutations, evolution, and quasispecies.