Ofer Perl

Assistant professor at Haifa University, interested in how humans smell, breathe, remember and recall their world.

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

Time has come to share some exciting news! I’m starting a new position as Assistant Professor in the Department of Cognitive Sciences at Haifa University in Spring 2025!

#AcademicTwitter #Neuroscience #NewYear #newPI

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

@baror_shira You're making me blush, Shira :)

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

We are recruiting!

My lab at the University of Haifa is looking for new team members to join our research on the links between sensory perception (focus on #smell and human #olfaction) and human memory.

Please help me spread the word

@SocialM76238155 @IBBRCHaifa

[Mathias L. Nielsen @_MathiasLN]

15-year-old me: “Academic research is going to be the most amazing job in the world.”

The reality of my postdoc…

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

@baror_shira and colleagues came up with a clever paradigm to probe the relationship between continuity and segmentation, check it out!

Congratulations Shira ❤️

[Nature Human Behaviour @NatureHumBehav]

The role of context in continuity and segmentation https://t.co/bvUWfGF7YW

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

#Throwback!
This finding still blows my mind. 🤯
We demonstrated that beliefs about nicotine strength drive dose-dependent signals in the brain, physiologically mimicking the drug itself, even when the actual dose is constant.

Beliefs change biology 👇 https://t.co/05Nv3x461a

[Shawn Rhoads @shawnrhoadsphd]

Excited to see our NMH paper featured here for #WorldMentalHealthDay! https://t.co/ij54cQIDHK

Many psychiatric symptoms are inherently social. @XiaosiGu, @JoeBarnby, & I call for models that reflect processes most relevant to our questions, esp. for those about social symptoms

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

A new semester here at University of Haifa and with it comes something I have been wanting for a long time: a full semester course devoted entirely to human olfaction.

Apparently "let's spend 13 weeks talking about odors, stench, sniffing, and pheromones" did not scare them off.

[Abha Karki Rajbhandari, PhD @BrainBody_Lab]

Brain–body states as a link between cardiovascular and mental health: Trends in Neurosciences https://t.co/eYpjtgLKvv

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

Always nice when science translates to real world observations (watch till the end!)

Frumin et al. "A social chemosignaling function for human handshaking" 👋👃🏻

https://t.co/sz5aPHUc34

[MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit @mrccbu]

New fMRI study shows the hippocampus signals mismatches only when our expectations are based on episodic memories — not general knowledge. Challenges theories of the hippocampus as a domain-general comparator: https://t.co/8JISKBqzgJ

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

I'm grateful for the welcoming atmosphere and support endowed by @ELSCbrain as a whole and Dr. Aya Ben Yakov's guidance in particular 🙏

[ELSC Brain @ELSCbrain]

We’re thrilled to announce that Dr. Ofer Perl, ELSC postdoc from Aya Ben-Yakov’s Lab, has received an academic position at The University of Haifa. Congratulations!

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

@LiorTal4 It makes every bit of sense to become attached to such a building, Lior. ❤️

[Oren Schuldiner's Lab @lab_oren]

My lab was totally destroyed tonight by an Iranian missile. Nobody was hurt. Flies, plasmids, cells, equipment - all gone. Heart breaking. If during the course of the past 16 years, you have received something from my lab - please keep them safe.

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

Hey #academia , raise your hand if your alma mater was struck by a missile barrage today

We can't share the pics but they're dreadful.

👋

[Joel Braunold @braunold]

NYT reporting Weizmann Institute hit

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

This is how your email finds me

[WORG: Weizmann Olfaction Research Group @LabWorg]

👃🚨 NEW PAPER ALERT🚨👃
Just out in @CurrentBiology - "Humans have nasal respiratory fingerprints" by Timna Soroka et al.

(link to #OpenAccess paper @ comment!)
TL;DR - Human nasal respiratory fingerprints are individually unique patterns that reflect brain-driven respiration

[David Omer @DavidOmer_]

Nachum's new book Natural Neuroscience is out! A fresh take on how brains work in the real world—well worth a read.

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

An incredibly comprehensive piece by Tort and colleagues showing to what extent brain activity is shaped by respiration. Take a deep breath and dive in 🤿

https://t.co/1iFO8oOApW

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

It’s got a name

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

Thank you all for the goodbye party and the going-away swag.

May your shelf will always be full with booze and hippocampuses. or hippocampi, never really got that bit.

[Ofer Perl @OferPerl]

Yesterday was my last day with the
Ben-Yakov human memory lab at @ELSCbrain.
After two and a half wonderful years, going away is bittersweet.

I now look forward to starting a new path as a PI @UofHaifa and to forming new hippocampus-mediated memories.