Dr. Yair Motro

Name: Dr. Yair Motro

My Background: BSc (Computer Science), BSc (Biotechnology), PhD (Bioinformatics), Post Doc in Theoretical Chemistry (Dr Yifat Miller, Ben Gurion University of the Negev)

My Current role in the group:  Responsible for Dry Lab (Bioinformatics) infrastructure and analysis.

My Research topic: Involved in a variety of projects and collaborations covering the three major branches of microbial NGS, namely shotgun metagenomics, targeted metagenomics and whole genome sequencing.

• LMAS: evaluating metagenomic short de novo assembly methods through defined communities December 28, 2022 11:00 am Mário Ramirez
• Prevalence and Characteristics of Carriage of Neisseria meningitidis Among Young Israeli Adults October 13, 2022 10:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Phenotypic correlates of the working dog microbiome August 22, 2022 10:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Fecal Microbiome Features Associated with Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacterales Carriage in Dairy Heifers July 27, 2022 10:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Prevalence of Antibiotic Tolerance and Risk for Reinfection Among Escherichia coli Bloodstream Isolates: A Prospective Cohort Study April 22, 2022 10:00 am Jacob Strahilevitz
• Long-Read Sequencing and Hybrid Assembly for Genomic Analysis of Clinical Brucella melitensis Isolates March 26, 2022 10:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Genomic Epidemiology of Clinical Brucella melitensis Isolates from Southern Israel February 25, 2022 11:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• The Effects of One Anastomosis Gastric Bypass Surgery on the Gastrointestinal Tract January 21, 2022 11:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Brucellosis Outbreak Traced to Commercially Sold Camel Milk through Whole-Genome Sequencing, Israel May 20, 2021 10:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• An inter-laboratory study to investigate the impact of the bioinformatics component on microbiome analysis using mock communities May 20, 2021 10:00 am Jim F Huggett
• Unraveling antimicrobial resistance in Helicobacter pylori: Global resistome meets global phylogeny January 25, 2021 11:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Genomic Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance Genotype-to-Phenotype Agreement in Helicobacter pylori December 30, 2020 11:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• The Clinical and Molecular Epidemiology of Noncarbapenemase-Producing Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae: A Case-Case-Control Matched Analysis August 29, 2020 10:00 am Dror Marchaim
• minMLST: machine learning for optimization of bacterial strain typing August 18, 2020 10:00 am Isana Veksler-Lublinsky
• Genomic Characterization of Antimicrobial Resistance, Virulence, and Phylogeny of the Genus Ochrobactrum April 17, 2020 10:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Cyber security threats in the microbial genomics era: implications for public health February 20, 2020 11:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Discordant bioinformatic predictions of antimicrobial resistance from whole-genome sequencing data of bacterial isolates: an inter-laboratory study February 13, 2020 11:00 am Kathryn A Harris
• ESCMID postgraduate education course: regional capacity building for integration of next-generation sequencing in the clinical microlab March 21, 2018 10:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Next-generation sequencing applications in clinical bacteriology December 20, 2017 11:00 am Jacob Moran-Gilad
• Emergence of native peptide sequences in prebiotic replication networks September 7, 2017 10:00 am Gonen Ashkenasy
• Microbial Metagenomics Mock Scenario-based Sample Simulation (M3S3) August 17, 2017 10:00 am J Moran-Gilad
• The effects of CO2 and nutrient fertilisation on the growth and temperature response of the mangrove Avicennia germinans June 5, 2016 10:00 am Klaus Winter
• Reaction Mechanism for Direct Proton Transfer from Carbonic Acid to a Strong Base in Aqueous Solution I: Acid and Base Coordinate and Charge Dynamics February 17, 2016 11:00 am James T Hynes
• Reaction Mechanism for Direct Proton Transfer from Carbonic Acid to a Strong Base in Aqueous Solution II: Solvent Coordinate-Dependent Reaction Path February 16, 2016 11:00 am James T Hynes
• Carotenoid derivatives inhibit nuclear factor kappa B activity in bone and cancer cells by targeting key thiol groups August 1, 2014 10:00 am Yoav Sharoni
• A newly emerged cutaneous leishmaniasis focus in northern Israel and two new reservoir hosts of Leishmania major February 26, 2013 11:00 am Alon Warburg
• Genome sequence of the pathogenic intestinal spirochete brachyspira hyodysenteriae reveals adaptations to its lifestyle in the porcine large intestine March 6, 2009 11:00 am David J Hampson
• Identification of genes associated with prophage-like gene transfer agents in the pathogenic intestinal spirochaetes Brachyspira hyodysenteriae, Brachyspira pilosicoli and Brachyspira intermedia October 28, 2008 10:00 am David J Hampson
• Ten years of bacterial genome sequencing: comparative-genomics-based discoveries June 15, 2006 10:00 am David W Ussery