I am currently a postdoc at Wendell Lim’s lab of Synthetic Biology at UCSF, I am an EMBO postdoc fellow. I have recently completed my PhD studies at Yitzhak Pilpel’s lab of Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
My research in the fields of Systems Biology and Synthetic Biology focuses on understanding the underlying principles of Evolution. I employ both experimental and computational approaches in my work. In addition to scientific research, I became increasingly interested in Science education. I have developed and taught several academic courses and helped develop and write the Israeli Bioinformatics textbook (eBook) for high-school students.
Publications
- Mitchell A and Pilpel Y. A Mathematical Model for Adaptive Prediction of Environmental Changes by Microorganisms. PNAS. 2011 Apr 12. (PubMed)
- Mitchell A et. al. Adaptive prediction of environmental changes by microorganisms. Nature. 2009 Jul 9;460(7252):220-4. (PubMed, PDF)
- Mitchell A and Graur D. The Pattern of Spontaneous mutation in Mycobacterium leprae and a comparison of mutation patterns acoress large evolutionary distances.J Mol Evol. 2005 Dec;61(6):795-803. (PubMed, PDF)
- Mayrose I*, Mitchell A* and Pupko T. Site-Specific Evolutionary Rate Inference: Taking Phylogenetic Uncertaintiy into Account. J Mol Evol. 2005 Mar;60(6):345-53. (*equal contribution) (PubMed ,PDF)
Fellowships and Awards
- Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research Postdoctoral research award (2012)
- EMBO postdoctoral fellowship (2010-2011)
- Fulbright postdoctoral fellowship – declined (2010/2011)
- The Haim Holtzman Memorial Prize for PhD research (2010)
- The Israeli Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology award of excellence for PhD research (awarded to two PhD students nationwide) (2010).
- Fellow of the Adi Lautman interdisciplinary program for outstanding students at Tel Aviv University (direct MSc track) during (2000-2003).
