Personal statement:

I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, traveling, and exploring new places.

Research statement:

My research combines experimental and computational approaches to understand how changes in genome organization and gene regulation contribute to disease. I am particularly interested in cancer biology, immunology, and using genomic data to uncover mechanisms of cellular regulation.

Projects:

• Genome Organization in Cancer: Investigating how mutations in the chromatin-remodeling protein SMARCB1 alter genome organization and gene expression.
  B-cell Receptor Repertoire Analysis: Developing computational workflows to analyze B-cell receptor sequencing data and study immune repertoire diversity.

Publications:

• Erez N., Israitel E., Bitman-Lotan B., Wong W., Raz G., et al. (2021). A Non-stop identity complex (NIC) supervises enterocyte identity and protects from premature aging. eLife.
  Guetta M., Kariti H., Sherman L., Israitel L., Tel-Paz M., Avidan N., Shemer R., Kaplan N. (2024). Large-scale manipulation of radial positioning does not affect most aspects of genome organization.
• Fridman D., Israitel L., Shtewe A., Hershberg U. (2026). Germline based SARS-CoV-2 specific B cell repertoire motif identified with novel sequence based bioinformatic pipeline. Frontiers in Immunology, 17:1823750. doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1823750.