Group Members

David Omer studies the neural circuits the undelie complex behaviors. He trained with Amiram Grinvald (Weizmann Institute.), Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute) and with Nachum Ulanovsky (Weizmann Institute). His laboratory studies the physiology of brain networks engaged in cognitive process which enable us humans to navigate seemingly in physical & social spaces, as well as the neural evolution of vocal communication and language in nonhuman primates.

Guy is a graduate student in Neuroscience at the Omer Lab. He received his undergraduate degree in Psychobiology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he first developed an interest in neuroscience. During his undergraduate studies, he worked with neuron cultures to study Huntington's disease as a research assistant in the Meshorer Lab at the Life Sciences Institute. He also interned in the field of psychoneuroimmunology in the Yirmiya Lab at the Psychology Department, where he became interested in the neural correlates of behavior. His growing passion for hippocampal research led him to join the Omer Lab, where he is now studying hippocampal coding of space and abstract concepts in the context of natural behavior.

Computer Science

Roni is the lab manager of the Omer Lab. She earned her BSc in Biology and Cognition from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Fascinated by the neural mechanisms underlying natural behaviors, she continued her studies in neuroscience and is currently pursuing a master’s degree, focusing on developing an in-vivo localization method for tetrodes using MRI-CT fusion.

I completed my undergraduate degree in Biology at the Hebrew University. Soon after, I developed a strong interest in Neurobiology, particularly in Behavioral Neuroscience. As I prepared for my master’s degree, I realized that while social behaviors are widely studied in psychology, they are still poorly understood in neurobiology. This realization led me to pursue a master’s degree in the Ben-Shaul Lab at the Faculty of Medicine, Hebrew University’s Ein Kerem campus. In the Ben-Shaul Lab, I investigated how individuals from different social groups (self, cage mates, strangers) are represented in the brain and how they influence territorial behavior in mice, specifically through urine marking. To further advance in this field, I joined the Omer Lab at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences (ELSC) for my doctorate, where I am currently studying how territoriality is represented in the hippocampus.

Computational Neuroscience

Computer Science