Simon Michaeli

Cell & molecular biologist @volcaninstitute. Interested in autophagy, plant senescence, fruit ripening, food loss prevention & food-based health.

[Simon Michaeli @Michaeli_Lab]

#Lightsheet fluorescence microscopy of an Arabidopsis #root. Six stitched segments enable 3D visualization of a relatively large portion of the root with proper resolution.

[Simon Michaeli @Michaeli_Lab]

@PlantoPhagy @MarionClavel4 @ScienceMagazine @DoroteaArt Congrats Marion, Yasin and all the other contributors. An outstanding story! 🥂🍾.

[Efrat Rayten אפרת רייטן @Efratrayten1]

Ben-Gvir is a dangerous provocateur who represents an extreme minority. He is fundamentally and entirely not Israel, and he does not represent its values or the rule of law.

Netanyahu’s irresponsible decision to bring him into the government and place him at the head of a ministry has cost Israel human lives and damaged Israel's relationships around the world.

With elections approaching, we will do everything to replace the entire government and rebuild a liberal, democratic Israel.

[Simon Michaeli @Michaeli_Lab]

EVERY WORD!
Homo sapiens sapiens is a disappointing species

[Bill Maher @billmaher]

People say the left and the right can’t agree on anything these days. But there is this one thing:

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

Eyal Waldman is a decent and honorable man whom I have gotten to know closely since October 7, and was one of the first Israelis to reach out to me online once I had grown a presence following the tragedy of my family’s killing in Gaza by Israeli airstrikes. Despite losing his daughter to Hamas’s heinous massacre on October 7, he has been relentlessly pursuing radically pragmatic initiatives, and we have both been in multiple spaces, conferences, events, and arenas to discuss ways in which Palestinians and Israelis can both have safety, security, self-determination, and freedom. He not only supports peace and the inevitable need to establish a Palestinian self-rule because it is the moral thing to do, but he also recognizes it is imperative for protecting Israel’s long-term interests and needs as a Jewish and democratic state.

The blind hatred by the so-called “pro-Palestine” activists against Eyal here is typical behavior of brownshirt-esque militias who simply hear someone’s identity and react blindly despite his goodwill gesture and outreach. The “pro-Palestine” mafia fails to appreciate that there will never be a free or independent Palestine without making alliances with broad segments in Israel, including in government, civil society, business, and faith communities. You don’t have to agree with everything Eyal says or believes to acknowledge that he is a decent, honorable, and a class-A human being, the embodiment of pursuing peace and reconciliation across entrenched narratives and deep personal trauma.

[Mikhail Schepetilnikov @MSchepetilnikov]

PhD position open in my lab. Join us!

[Simon Michaeli @Michaeli_Lab]

For this #FluorescenceFriday, beautiful round tonoplast memebranes engulfing chloroplasts (magenta) and a stomata (cyan) sends a kiss.

Image taken by talented Hala Khamesa-Israelov from our group. #PlantScience

[Eli Kowaz - איליי קואז @elikowaz]

Eyal Waldman hired 20 engineers in Gaza, donated $360K to a Gaza hospital, and spent years building partnerships toward between Israeli and Palestinians.

Pro-Palestinian protesters screamed “murderer” at him in Venice this week. His daughter was killed at Nova on October 7.

[Yasin Dagdas @PlantoPhagy]

Now online @NaturePlants‼️Led by Jierui Zhao, a former PhD student & with @MoritzNowack lab, we uncover how #autophagy shapes salt stress tolerance and lifespan https://t.co/zXPWhEO2Me https://t.co/cMAxIPSJuB
A short 🧵👇

[NBA @NBA]

The rise of Deni Avdija has been special!

After making a massive leap in PPG and APG this season, Deni went off for 41 PTS, 7 REB and 12 AST Tuesday night to help the Trail Blazers lock in the West 7 seed!

[jenny russinova @jennyrussinova]

We are looking for a motivated PhD student to join our team 🌱🌱🌱 https://t.co/dehJ3vKZRC

[Alex Costa @lab_costa]

Still time to register for the EMBO Workshop on Plant Calcium Signaling 2026!

Dive into cutting-edge research on Ca²⁺ signaling in plants 🌿

Primosten, Croatia | 20–24 Sept 2026

https://t.co/xz41A0i5Jz

Travel grants are available

https://t.co/TlYe39LU3S

[Yasin Dagdas @PlantoPhagy]

This gives incredible power to the panelists. They will literally determine if a lab survives or not with the 3 year ban. I don't think a couple of people should have this power. @ERC_Research

[TAU School of Plant Sciences @TauPlantSci]

In today’s seminar, Idan Efroni @efronilab presented his algorithm for uncovering conserved non-coding sequences that have quietly shaped plant gene expression over evolutionary time.
These elements reveal the regulatory grammar we can reuse when designing promoters.🌱🍅🌻

[Heidi Bachram @HeidiBachram]

Watch British tourists harass an Israeli couple in Vietnam. They sing “Boom boom Tel Aviv” and call them “rats”. They even invoke the Nazi trope of Jews being kicked out of “110 countries”. These pro-Pals are indistinguishable from Nazis now. I’m ashamed of them.

[Simon Michaeli @Michaeli_Lab]

I'm not religious, but I'll say Amen to that 🙏🏻

[Ralf Reski 🇩🇪🇪🇺 @ReskiLab]

@uricohenisrael Yes, there will be a historic peace agreement between Israel and Lebanon.
It’s in mutual interest.

[Simon Michaeli @Michaeli_Lab]

Super Deni! 👏🏼🏀

[NBA @NBA]

DENI JUST DOMINATED 🔥

41 PTS
7 REB
12 AST
2 BLK
3 3PM

Portland clinches the West #7 seed and will face San Antonio in Round 1 of the NBA Playoffs presented by @Google!

[Can Aztekin @CanAztekin]

🚨Why can’t mammals regenerate limbs like frog tadpoles or salamanders?
In our new paper in @ScienceMagazine, we show that species-specific oxygen sensing acts as a gatekeeper for initiating limb regeneration 🐭🐸
🔗 https://t.co/oTjoiiJyBj #EvoDevo

[Jarrid Rector-Brooks @jarridrb]

What if AI could invent enzymes that nature hasn’t seen? 👩‍🔬🧑‍🔬

Introducing 🪩 DISCO: Diffusion for Sequence-structure CO-design

14 rounds of directed evolution and over a year of wet lab work. That's what it took to engineer an enzyme for selective C(sp³)–H insertion, one of the most challenging transformations in organic chemistry.

DISCO surpasses this with a single plate. No pre-specified catalytic residues, no template, no theozyme, no inverse folding, just joint diffusion over protein sequence and structure.

📝 Blog: https://t.co/j9Za0JigfO
📄 Paper: https://t.co/ficrYNBBrM
💻 Code: https://t.co/p81sSwoaPH

[Simon Michaeli @Michaeli_Lab]

I'd like to believe this won't affect my personality

#Reviewer2

[Volcani Institute @Volcaninstitute]

This study offers the most comprehensive hormone-focused multi-omics resource for #tomato reproductive development to date.

Researchers 🔬  Dr. Adi Faigenboim, Dr. Hagai Yasuor from @Volcaninstitute, together with researchers from @WeizmannScience , @UniBonn @IPB_Halle @Princeton , @tudresden_de 👇
https://t.co/nNOgUtKP5v