Nir Yosef

Nir Yosef received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University and then completed a postdoctoral training at the Broad Institute, where he worked on transcriptional regulation of T cell differentiation. Nir joined the faculty at UC Berkeley in 2014, where served as an Associate Professor of Computer Science and a core member at the Center of Computational Biology. In 2022, Nir moved to the Department of Systems Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The Yosef lab tackles questions in immunology by harnessing techniques for large-scale molecular and cellular profiling, with emphasis on single cell genomics. Within this scope, the lab is developing and utilizing methods from statistical machine learning and algorithms to study the sources of variation between cells (e.g, in metabolism, chromatin structure, tissue environment) and their implications on the development and function of immune cells.