Gilad Barshad

I study the interplay between genome architecture and the regulation of gene expression in mammalian systems and across evolution

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

So proud of this work and thankful for our amazing collaborators!!!

[Charles Danko @charlesdanko]

Our latest work led by @BarshadGilad.

Our primary goal was to understand how enhancers and promoters communicate over long distances. What is the architecture during communication? And what proteins facilitate communication?

Main results👇:
https://t.co/0ipI2A7kLV

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Irish pop star Bono broke his silence on the Gaza war at the Ivor Awards, urging Israel to be “freed from Benjamin Netanyahu and far-right extremists.”

https://t.co/3yeVLopBNX

[John Aziz @aziz0nomics]

Sometimes I wake up feeling argumentative 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

🧬 The Barshad Lab at Technion invites you to join our journey! 🧬

https://t.co/G1t9KfzfzL

[Isana Veksler-Lublinsky @ILublinsky]

Join us at the Israeli RNA Biology Meeting 2025 🧬✨
📅 March 10, 2025 | 📍 Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
@RNA_ISR

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

Dr. Rupa Marya is claiming that medical students have a right to be concerned about appearing in the same classroom as an Israeli. There was a time not so long ago when white students were “concerned” about appearing in the same classroom as a Black person. Those “concerned” white people were known as racists. The “concerned” Anti-Zionists are antisemites.

Any doctor advocating discrimination based on identity, as Rupa Marya has done, is prescribing not medicine but poison.

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

Nice work from @ToiberDebbie's lab. I love the metaphor! Expanding nucleus (and chromatin)...

[Debbie Toiber @ToiberDebbie]

Nuclear expansion and chromatin structure remodeling in mouse aging neurons https://t.co/sN15Wr2QeG
Our DNA is typically organized within the cell nucleus like highways connected by bridges and loops, facilitating the use of the genetic information encoded within.

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

@A_Amunts @Orangeroad2017 So cool!

[Shai Davidai @ShaiDavidai]

The Infiltration of Terror Supporting and anti-American Ideology into North American Universities: A case study

Sorry for the long thread, but trust me - it's worth it.
Seriously.

[Eyal Eshel @ESHEL2003]

ובכן, דובר ראש הממשלה מזלזל בועדת החקירה האזרחית שאני ומשפחות שכולות הקמנו כדי לקבל תשובות בסיסיות ועל מנת שאבין איך קרה שהבת שלי נשרפה למוות.
מר אוריך, מתי בכוונתכם להקים ועדת חקירה ממלכתית?
שואל בשביל הבת שלי שכבר לא יכולה לשאול את השאלה הזאת

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

בוקר ארור. ממשלה ארורה. את כולם - עכשיו!

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

@Noam_Kaplan Fascinating! A very cool system.

[Ritchie Torres @RitchieTorres]

“Israel-occupied” Golan Heights is a term that I have seen in the media coverage about Hezbollah’s murder of 12 Druze children in Israel.

Should we start speaking of US-occupied Texas? Should we start advocating for an unlimited right of return to Texas? Should we start chanting: “We don’t want two state. We want 48 (as in 1848).” Or has the US occupation of Texas been grandfathered in? Is there a statute of limitations? Inquiring minds want to know.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

I truly struggle to understand how some of the “pro-Palestine” protesters come up with the most vile, hateful, despicable, and awful messages and actions to demonstrate in support of Gaza or the Palestinian cause. What occurred today in Washington DC among some protesters who demonstrated against Netanyahu’s speech to Congress, was part of a 9-month-long series of puzzling choices and actions. Carrying Jihadi and Hamas flags? Displaying vile and violent antisemitic signs? Burning American flags in the Capital of the United States? Spray painting pro-Hamas sentiments and symbols? Championing the same cringy and ridiculous chants? Wearing Abu Obaida gear as if that’s cool and hip? Something has been going truly wrong for many young people and their allies to engage in such harmful and incredibly unhelpful behavior. Putting aside moral/ethical considerations for a second, these actions are so immensely horribly damaging and detrimental to the Palestinian cause.

Even if you think these are provocateurs, saboteurs, and psy operatives meant to delegitimize the Palestinian cause and pro-Palestine activism, why is there no community-wide condemnation and educational efforts to inform and teach protesters about the dangers of such reckless and irresponsible behavior? Why isn’t this behavior isolated and treated as harmful? Worse, why is it that when I or others call out such behavior, we’re immediately attacked, and the hateful/violent behavior by protesters is minimized or ignored?

I was standing with a group of Jewish/Israeli protesters who were LITERALLY praying for a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to the war/hostage deal when hoards of “pro-Palestine” activists walked by and heckled/harassed these people. Instead of aligning with the hostage families who could be critical partners in creating pressure to end the war, there is a stubborn, ignorant, stupid, moronic, immature, hateful, arrogant, unsophisticated, and vile insistence on these childish actions which are ineffective and damaging.

Shame on all the organizations and individuals who witness this behavior but deliberately choose to remain silent. By the way, these are the same people who would cry foul if a lone pro-Israel protester had a vile sign calling for the killing of all Gazans and Palestinians. The pro-Palestine cause deserves better leaders, allies, representatives, and supporters. The Palestine people will never advance their just and urgent aspirations with this kind of behavior and divisive/violent rhetoric. There needs to be pragmatic work with Jewish and Israeli allies and partners on a massive scale, across political/ideological spectrums, to achieve something tangible/different to forge a peaceful & equitable path forward.

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

To my American friends, the worst prime minister in the history of our country was not talking to you today - he was talking to us over your heads. We are NOT convinced and will send him home soon. He doesn't represent us.

[גבע ברין Geva Brin @GevaBrin]

ברק רביד ב-CNN מציין לאחר הנאום שנתניהו מעכב את המו"מ בעניין החטופים, שנתניהו מאוד לא פופולרי בישראל ושזה לא יעזור לו: "הרבה ישראלים שצפו בזה הלילה יודעים בדיוק את זה. הוא השתמש בחיילים כאביזרים פוליטיים. הוא עשה הרבה מהשטיקים הקבועים שלו במהלך הנאומים"

[yayafink (יאיא פינק) @yayafink]

תשאר שם.
אתה מצטיין באנגלית ומנהיג גרוע שהביא אסון על כולנו.
תשאר שם עם יאיר ותשחרר אותנו.

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

@jengreitz Interesting and explains a lot. Great work!

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

Shameful

[Barak Rotblat @BarakRotblat]

@segal_eran We carry on

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

https://t.co/LABRrcMbwa
Reality is complicated, and justice is subjective. Stop thinking you hold the truth in your back pocket and start advocating for peace.

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

@YairGolan1 בהצלחה. שתדעו גם להקשיב למי שלא רואה איתכם עין בעין ושתתנו לטובת האזרחים ולא ל"צדק" (שהוא מראש מושג סובייקטיבי) להיות לכם למטרה.

[Gilad Barshad @BarshadGilad]

I wonder why so many people accuse NY-16 residents of being baught. Give them some credit. A mirror is desperately needed in the progressive left.

[Noam Dworman @noam_dworman]

On Bowman and AIPAC.

Everything is code and plausible deniability these days. The Left, which for years heard "dog whistles" that only their exquisitely sensitive auditory system could decipher, has gone deaf when it comes to things that scream anti-Semitism. As long as they choose their words carefully - say "Zionist," never define "intifada," or "river to the sea," or the precise meaning of any strategically ambiguous phrase (no matter the tone or menacing vibe) - how dare we accuse? It's declassé to assume anything but the best in people!

Immediately after 10/7, anti-Semitic incidents tripled. And in liberal social circles, the pressure to declare our positions (or excommunicate ourselves gracefully) is palpable. "Where do you stand?," looms over us. (I know Jews who are almost leading double lives.)

For Jews (whose heads are not in their asses), Israel is no longer simply a foreign policy matter. or a concern for "our people" overseas; the issue directly affects our day-to-day lives as American citizens. Forget the hateful dual-loyalty accusations, this is about life at home.

My grammar school children sense that being Jewish has become an issue. (I've said before) it's like an acid rain on the Jewish psyche; it wears us down, gets into our very soil, and even affects what grows.

Of all the accusations, nothing is more dangerous than the outrageously slanderous and legally illiterate charge of genocide. Once Israel is equated with the Nazis, every Jew is suspected of thought crimes. ("hmmm, does he or doesn't he?"). And we are very close to the point of no return.

"The Germans did it to them, and now they've done it to the Palestinians..." It becomes like a psychological algebra problem in which all Jewish historical and moral arguments on one side of the equation can somehow be canceled out and nullified by the other side.

All of which to say that when a member of Congress accuses the Jewish State of genocide, dismisses claims of sexual assaults as "propaganda," and embraces the "all about the Benjamins," "allegiance to a foreign country," Squad - it is perfectly proper for concerned Americans to organize against him (and all his ideological fellow travelers; local, state and federal).

(When he (and they) push school curricula based on intersectionality and anti-racism, ideologies in which Jews are axiomatically the villain of any conflict, and which seem to make the unequivocal condemnation of Hamas and even 10/7 impossible... For Jews in 2024, I think it's essential.)

Did AIPAC swing a Bowman victory into a 17-20 point loss??? Who could honestly believe that??? Especially when Lattimer was leading 6 months ago (and there are so many significant non-Israel issues that Bowman faces).

If lobbying has that kind of juice, every election can be bought, right? Which brings to mind one final point. Lobbying - not the type where special rules are slipped into arcane legislation, but the type that appeals directly to the voters - can only succeed to the extent that it reaches an already sympathetic ear. The NRA can lobby all it wants against AOC; literally, a billion dollars of pro-gun ads will not flip a bright-blue district red.

Jews, their sympathizers, lobbying groups, et al. organized in the most American and democratic of ways. The conscience of the community spoke unambiguously, not because it was bought or fooled in some deceptive nefarious way, but because it reacted with wisdom, in exigent times, to the clear factual record brought before it.