Shaul Pollak - Curriculum Vitae
Employment #
| Assistant Professor | University of ViennaDivision of Microbial Ecology (DOME) Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CMESS)2024-? |
| Group Leader | University of ViennaDivision of Microbial Ecology (DOME) Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science (CMESS)2023-2024 |
| Postdoctoral ScholarAdvisor: Prof. Sallie (Penny) Chisholm | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering2022-2023 |
| Postdoctoral ScholarAdvisor: Prof. Otto X. Cordero | Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering2018-2022 |
Education #
| Ph.D. Evolutionary Systems BiologyAdvisor: Prof Avigdor EldarThesis: “Evolutionary dynamics of social traits andgenome evolution in Bacillus Subtilis” | Tel-Aviv University2014-2018 |
| M.Sc. GeneticsGraduated summa cum laudeAdvisor: Prof. Avigdor EldarThesis: “Social Dynamics Drive the EvolutionaryDiversification of Bacterial Quorum Sensing Systems” | Tel-Aviv University2011-2013 |
| B.Sc Life ScienceGraduated magna cum laude | Tel-Aviv University2007-2010 |
Awards and Honors #
| 2018 | EMBO Long-Term Fellowship |
| 2017 | Second place and honorary mention for poster presentation at the 12th Safra Bioinformatics retreat |
| 2016 | Excellence in research award granted by the faculty of Life-Science at Tel-Aviv University to Ph.D students |
| 2016 | BSF Prof. Rahamimoff Travel Grants Program for Young Scientists |
| 2015 | Best lecture award at the 4th Graduate students’ conference in Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution |
| 2010 | Dean’s list for excellence in undergraduate studies |
Talks, Posters, and Workshops #
| 6.2022 | Talk at the Evolutionary Dynamics and Processes meeting, Plon, Germany |
| 6.2021 | Virtual talk at Evolutionary and Ecological Systems Biology talks, MIT |
| 9.2019 | Talk at the Simons Foundation Annual PriME meeting |
| 7.2019 | Poster at the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Microbial Population Biology |
| 3.2019 | Talk at the third annual MIT-Harvard Microbiome Symposium |
| 5.2017 | Poster at the 12th Safra Center for Bioinformatics Retreat, Israel |
| 12.2015 | Poster at the first Pearl Seiden International meeting in Life Sciences: From synthetic biology to discovery and applications, Israel |
| 9.2015 | Talk at the 4th Graduate students’ conference in Genetics, Genomics, and Evolution, Israel |
| 2.2015 | Poster at the Israel Society for Microbiology annual meeting, Israel |
| 7.2014 | QBio advanced summer research school at the KITP in UCSB, USA |
| 2.2014 | Poster at ILANIT/FISEB 2014, Israel |
| 6.2013 | Talk at the 2nd TAU Biophysical student meeting, Israel |
| 3.2013 | Poster at the One2Many systems biology symposium, Israel |
| 2.2013 | Poster at the First Annual Winter qBio Meeting, Hawaii, USA |
| 7.2010 | Annual Kupcinet-Getz International Science School for outstanding undergraduate students at the Weizmann Institute, Israel |