Award-Winning Scholars
Our scholars are decorated with many awards. Here is a partial list:
The Pupko Lab is concerned with various fields of Molecular Evolution and Bioinformatics. In Molecular evolution, we study the evolutionary selective forces shaping genes and genomes and the in-silico predictions of these forces using probabilistic evolutionary models.
In phylogenetics, we reconstruct evolutionary relationships and ancestral sequences and study sequence alignment. In pathogenomics, we develop and apply machine-learning tools for predicting effector proteins in pathogenic bacteria. In immunoformatics, we develop algorithms for analyzing phage display experiments.
- 2025 - Teaching award from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2025 - A teaching award from the Rector of Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2025 - Top 100 lecturers throughout Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2023 - Teaching award from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2022 - Teaching award from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2022 - Top 100 lecturers throughout Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2021 - Teaching award from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2020 - Top 100 lecturers throughout Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2020 - Nature Research Award for Mentoring in Science, in the mid-career category.
- 2020 - The Edouard Seroussi Chair for Protein Nanobiotechnology.
- 2019 - Top 100 lecturers throughout Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2018 - Teaching award from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2015 - Teaching award from the Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2015 - Top 100 lecturers throughout Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2015 - A teaching award from the Rector of Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2015 - The PNAS Cozzarelli Prize (The National Academy of Science, USA), which "recognizes recently published PNAS papers of outstanding scientific excellence and originality".
- 2014 - Top 100 lecturers throughout Tel-Aviv University, Israel.
- 2012 - The Hestrin Prize of the Israel Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ISBMB).
- 2006 - The Krill award (Wolf Foundation) for excellence in scientific research in 2006.
- 1995 - Wolf Prize for M.Sc. Students.
