Ram Lab

Evolution in Culture & Cultural Evolution

We study evolutionary biology, ecology, and cultural evolution using mathematical, computational, and statistical models and collaborations with experimental biologists. See the research page to read more about our research interests and projects.

We are located at the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science at IDC Herzliya.

We are hiring undergraduate, master, and PhD students, postdoctoral fellows and research assistants, including for short periods. If you are interested, please email Yoav.

News

• A new paper, the product of a collaboration with the Kupiec lab at Tel Aviv University, demonstrates that yeast frequently become diploid in the lab.
• My second postdoc paper presents a modified mean fitness principle for the generation of genetic and phenotypic variation.
• My first postdoc paper, on evolution of non-vertical inheritance in changing environments, was published in PNAS! You can also view a presentation I gave about our results at the Weizmann Institute for Science.