2024
Our talented PhD student, Sunu, has just been awarded the prestige Jacobs Fellowship!!!
Shenhav’s lab is thrilled to be part of the DREAMS consortium, a groundbreaking Horizon Europe project that secured nearly €8 million for a 5-year initiative to study 5 rare neuromuscular disorders! find more information on the American Technion Society, LinkedIn and Twitter.
Shenhav wins the Technion-wide Best Teacher Award with Distinction!
2023
Shenhav is a keynote speaker at the 6th Victorian Muscle Network Symposium at the University of Melbourne!
Shenhav receives the Hitman award for muscle atrophy research.
Congratulations to Galit on the successful completion of her MSc studies!
Shenhav receives the Levengrat award for muscle atrophy research.
Our Nashwa receives her MSc degree!
Our paper on new regulation of proteasome gene expression and homeostasis in mouse muscle in vivo is now posted on BioRxiv!
We welcome Samrat Chakraborty – a new PhD student in our lab!
Shenhav becomes vice dean for graduate studies at the Faculty of Biology.
2022
Our invited book chapter on the Molecular mechanisms of skeletal muscle wasting in cancer is now published in Springer Nature eBook ISBN 978-3-031-09518-4
Our work on the AAA-ATPase ATAD1 was published in EMBO reports!
Bala wins the Alliance Scholarship with EuroTech University!
Shenhav becomes a Technion Faculty Ambassador.
Shenhav is an Associate of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA.
Our recent exciting paper is on BioRxiv! We show that insulin receptor turnover in fasting is dependent on deglycosylation of the structural protein beta-dystroglycan. Thus, as we had shown before, tissue structural integrity is coupled to its metabolic capacity.
Congratulations to Sunu for successfully passing her PreDoc exam.
A fantastic scientific opinion on our latest ATAD1 paper by Tim Clausen and Julian Ehrmann can be found here.
Our latest paper on the understudied AAA-ATPase, ATAD1, has been uploaded to BioRxiv and already attracted an appreciable attention! We identified interacting partners for ATAD1 and discovered novel important biological roles in mouse muscle in vivo.
Shenhav gives a lecture to all high-school biology teachers in Israel on muscles, and why maintenance of their size is important for health. The national center for biology teachers.
2021
We are welcoming to the lab two new PhD students, Bala and Sunu.
Raz Ben-David successfully passed her PreDoc exam!
Measuring size of thousands of cells has never been easier! we adapted the Imaris software to automatically do it for you, and we also present new statistical tests in our new paper in AJP-Cell Physiology!
How are filamentous assemblies degraded by the proteasome in vivo? read our new review in Biomolecules.
Desmin intermediate filaments are more than just a cytoskeletal network! check out our new review together with Dr. Harald Herrmann and Dr. Giulio Agnetti on this topic in FEBS J.
Congratulations to Dina Awieda on the completion of her PhD!
Congratulations to Sewar Zbidat on completing her MSc!
Shenhav is awarded a Duchenne UK research grant together with Dr. Dan Peer and Dr. Annemieke Aartsma-Rus.
2020
Shenhav is a Visiting Scholar of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA..
Nashwa Jubran joins the lab as a MSc student.
Raz Ben David joins the lab as a PhD student.
Shenhav becomes an editorial board member for BBA-Molecular Cell Research journal.
Congratulations to Dina on winning the David Gershon prize for excellence in research!
Shenhav receives The Cooper Award for Excellence in Research.
Shenhav is awarded the Ministry of Health (MOH) research grant on nutrition and human health.
Congratulations to Jenny on winning the prestigious Zuckerman fellowship three years in a row!
Shenhav is awarded the Israel Cancer Association research award for outstanding researcher!
Dina is awarded a faculty award for excellence in research!
Dina is a faculty representative on Jacobs Graduate Research Day!
Shenhav is awarded the Israel Cancer Association research grant for outstanding researcher.
Shenhav receives the Norman and Helen Asher Research Award.
2019
Shenhav is awarded the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) research grant.
Shenhav is the recipient of the Norman and Helen Asher Space Research award.
Read the “Science @ YNET (Hebrew)” piece about Shenhav.
Jenny receives a fellowship from Zuckerman Stem Leadership Program for the year of 2019!
Shenhav is lecturing at “Science at the Bar” on International Women’s Day.
Dina receives an award for best poster at the Biology Faculty retreat!
Jenny gives a talk at the X-Zomes International conference, Israel.
Shenhav and Colleagues organize the X-ZOMES International Conference, which turns out to be a great success!
A write-up about our exciting findings on the insulin receptor and the Dystrophin Glycoprotein Complex is published on the ISF website.
Check out our new work on plakoglobin as a novel regulator of muscle size by linking insulin receptor activity to Dystrophin Glycoprotein Complex integrity (Link).
Sewar Zbidat joins the lab as a MSc student.
Congratulations to Yara on the completion of her PhD!
Congratulations to Alexandra on the completion of her PhD!
2018
Dina receives an award for 3rd place best short talk at the Biology Faculty retreat!
Check out our new work on mechanisms of desmin intermediate depolymerization in Journal of Cell Biology.
Jenny receives a fellowship from Zuckerman Stem Leadership Program for the year of 2018!
Dina receives a 4-year VATAT fellowship for outstanding graduate students!
Dina starts a direct track to Ph.D for high achievements!
Shenhav and colleagues organize the 4th Israel Ubiquitin Club meeting, hosting international leading experts at Technion.
Dr. Mariia Fadeeva joins the lab as a visiting scientist.
2017
Our paper on a new concept of atrophy as a two-phase process is selected by PNAS for a commentary write up.
Our paper on a new concept of atrophy as a two-phase process is out in PNAS.
Shenhav was invited to serve as an ASCB ambassador!
Alexandra wins the PARD fellowship!
Shenhav and colleagues organize the 3rd Israel Ubiquitin Club meeting, hosting hosting international leading experts at Technion
Danielle starts a new job as a development scientist at Pluristem Therapeutics.
Dina Aweida joins the lab as a M.Sc. student.
Dana Manela joins the lab as a M.Sc. student.
2016
Yara gives a lecture at the “Ubiquitin and proteolytic pathways: from molecular mechanisms to human diseases” conference, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Bar Ayalon joins the lab as a lab technician.
Yara receives the Technion Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!
Yara receives an award for best talk at the Biology Faculty retreat!
2015
Shenhav is awarded the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) equipment grant.
Shenhav is awarded the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) research grant.
Shenhav is awarded the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space research grant.
Dr. Anna Parnis joins the lab as a lab manager.
Danielle Neufeld joins the lab as a M.Sc. student.
Shenhav receives the Dr. Bernard and Bobbie Lublin Cancer Research award.
2014
Shenhav and Halyna Shcherbata (Max Planck Institute for biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Germany) win the Niedersachsen – Israel Cooperation research grant.
Alexandra Volodin joins the lab as a graduate student.
Yara Eid joins the lab as a graduate student.
Shenhav is the recipient of the Dr. Bernard and Bobbie Lublin Cancer Research award.
Shenhav receives the Malat family research award.
Shenhav is the recipient of the Robin award for biomedical research.
Shenhav is invited to become a host editor in “Frontiers in Physiology”.
Read the “Technion In Focus” piece about Shenhav.
Dr. Inbal Lasry joins the lab as a lab manager.
The Cohen Lab at Technion is up and running!