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Curriculum Vitae - Uri Neri

Awards and Fellowships

  • The Joan and Jaime Constantiner Institute travel fellowship (2023)
  • Excellent Research Student Prize (2023), Edmond J. Safra Center
  • Excellence Scholarship (2022), Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
  • Ph.D. candidate fellowship (2022), Tel Aviv University, Edmond J. Safra Center for Bioinformatics
  • Excellence Scholarship (2021), Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research
  • Best poster award – Hellenic Bioinformatics 12 (2019): "Illuminating the prokaryotic RNA Virome using metatranscriptomic analyses"
  • Best poster award – Halophiles 2019 (International Society of Salt Lake Research): "Microbial interactions in the Dead Sea as reflected by enrichment cultures: the curious case of Nanohaloarchaea"

Presentations at Meetings

  • Selected speaker, Virus Bioinformatics Meeting 2025 (ViBioM25), May 2025, Lisbon, Portugal.
  • Invited keynote speaker, International Soil Virus Conference, June 2024, USA
  • Invited speaker, JGI Annual User Meeting, August 2023, USA
  • Invited speaker, 10th International Conference on Bioresources and Viruses, September 2023
  • Invited speaker, ECR Viromics Webinar Series (EVBC), October 2022
  • Invited keynote speaker, International Mycovirus Symposium, May 2022, Italy

Past Scientific and Educational roles

  • Co-founding organizer, "RdRp Summit – Interoperability in RNA virus discovery" (satellite workshop to ViBioM, both in 2023 and in 2025).
  • Member, European Virus Bioinformatics Center (EVBC), since 2023
  • Reviewer in: PeerJ, Virus Evolution, Current Opinion in Virology (COVIRO).
  • Tutor for undergraduate project students from the Safra program for first degree in Bioinformatics.

Education

  • 2019 – 2024 Ph.D., Tel Aviv University – Fast Track Ph.D. Program for Outstanding Students (transferred from M.Sc. track); Advisor: Prof. Uri Gophna
  • 2018 – 2019: M.Sc., Tel Aviv University – Microbiology; Advisor: Prof. Uri Gophna
  • 2013 – 2017: B.Sc., Tel Aviv University – Biology

Employment

  • 2025 - present: Postdoctoral Researcher, Viral Genomics Group, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • 2024: Associate Data Scientist, Viral Genomics Group, Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • 2017 – 2018: Research Assistant, Prof. Uri Gophna's lab
  • 2013 – 2015: Research Assistant, Prof. Ehud Gazit's research group

Publications

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References

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