Simon Michaeli
@michaelilab
Plant and cell biologist. Interested in 🔬 organelles, membrane trafficking, autophagy, 🌿🍂 senescence, 🍑 ripening, learning, teaching and much more 🪐
For this #FluorescenceFriday, beautiful round tonoplast memebranes engulfing chloroplasts (magenta) and a stomata (cyan) sends a kiss. Image taken by talented postdoc Hala Khamesa-Israelov. #PlantScience
With everything going on, I can always count on grant writing to serve as an island of stability...
Something tells me I should go to the membrane contact sites session...
Sun 🔆 is rising over the bay of Eilat/Aqaba and the 2nd day of ILANIT 2026 is coming up.
Our own Dorothy Matiki presented her research (on autophagy in 🍅 ripening) impressively and earned her M.Sc. title! 🎉🍾 Soon Dorothy will meet the @weizmanninstitute.bsky.social Doctoral studies committee to (hopefully) approve her joining the lab of Prof. Michal Sharon. All the best Dorothy!
Christmas 🎄 and Hanukkah 🕎 celebration in Hala's (Dr. Khamesa-Israelov) place with all group members. What a treat 🥂🍻🍰
When the localization of a protein you thought you know well still manages to surprise you... 😯🤔☘️ #fluorescenceFriday by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov @volcaniinstitute.bsky.social
In between some excellent talks, mostly from PhD students and postdocs (including our Dr. Pradeep Kumar Pathak 👇) and even one brave MSc student 👏🏻
Was fabulous at the Israeli Society of ☘️ Sciences (ISPS) 2025 conf. held at Sde Boker @bengurionuni.bsky.social. It started with an In Memoriam lecture by @taw-lab.bsky.social dedicated to the Late Prof Gad Galili and ended with best poster 🏆 awarded to Dr. Hala Khamesa-Israelov from our group!
A short #research highlight on the intriguing, complex and potentially dual role of #autophagy in fruit ripening: #plantscience rdcu.be/eOY3h
Probably the best urinal point in the world... Tanglang mountain in Shenzhen
How you say you're in a conference in Chengdu without saying you're in a conference in Chengdu...
Hearing the good news from my country while in Chengdu. Much nicer to start the symposium on the plant hormone #ethylene tomorrow under these circumstances 🎉
Yeah, another normal day outside the office... Never imagined I would present in such a venue #TCTeAC
When they said they rented a train to take us to the woods, they weren't fooling around! #TCTeAC
At the Woodstock Bio+Night Science you don't have to choose, you can be both a scientist AND a rock star! #TCTeAC
All standing and singing for the #photosynthesis anthem (part 1) #TCTeAC
Just another normal day at the office... begins... #theconferencetoendallconferences #TCTeAC
Even now, in these troubling times, Israel is still the only country in the Middle-East that marks and celebrates #PRIDEmonth. Wishing Queer Jews, Muslims, Christians, Druze, Atheists and all others in Israel, the M-E and beyond the best, and better days ahead. Remember, we're not our government!