Aviv Mezer Lab

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Aviv Mezer

Professor

Phone: +972-2-6584617
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 2202, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
Human Brain Biophysics lab
The Belgian Friends Laboratory for the study of Neurodegenerative Diseases

Research in the lab is focused on in-vivo mapping of human brain structures. We are investigating the relationship between structure, function. Our main research tool is in in-vivo quantitative magnetic resonance imaging – qMRI. We are developing tools to biophysically explain the brain’s MRI signals at different levels and resolutions: from molecular local sources through the cellular organization to the mapping of networks across the entire brain. Using these tools, we are studying brain normal development and aging, as well as characterizing neurological disorders. Our research group’s ultimate goal is to develop an understanding of how individual-specific biological structures influence human cognition, under both normal and pathological conditions.

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Lee Cohen
Lab Manager
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Dr. Rona Shaharabani
Researcher
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Dr. Noam Saadon-Grosman
Post Doc
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Elior Drori
PhD Student
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Oshrat Shtangel
PhD Student
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Shachar Moskovich
PhD Student
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Maryana Pozina
PhD Student
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David Cohen
MSc Student
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Hagit Eliyahu
Undergraduate Student
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Lior Shapira
Undergraduate Student
ELSC-Seminars-General
Inbar Elmaliach
Undergraduate Student
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Dr. Roey Schurr
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Dr. Shir Filo
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Dr. Shai Berman
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Dr. Jonathan Bain
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Dr. Asier Erramuzpe
ELSC-Seminars-General
Gai Gefen
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Amitay Nachmani
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Niv Amos
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Eden Mama
ELSC-Seminars-General
Batsheva Weisinger
S Moskovich, O Shtangel, AA Mezer

Human Brain Mapping (2024)

F Shir, L Cohen, G Yahalom, AA Mezer

bioRxiv, 2024.08. 09.606771 (2024)

O Shtangel, AA Mezer

Magnetic Resonance in Medicine (2024)

D Radunsky, C Solomon, N Stern, T Blumenfeld-Katzir, S Filo, A Mezer, …

Plos one 19 (5), e0297244 (2024)

E Drori, L Cohen, D Arkadir, AA Mezer, G Yahalom

bioRxiv, 2024.05. 26.595926 (2024)

S Filo, R Shaharabani, D Bar Hanin, M Adam, E Ben-David, H Schoffman, …

Nature Communications 14 (1), 5467 (2023)

Shai Berman, Elior Drori, Aviv A. Mezer

NeuroImage, Volume 264, 119660, ISSN 1053-8119 (2022)

Edith Brignoni-Pérez, Sarah E. Dubner, Michal Ben-Shachar, Shai Berman, Aviv A. Mezer, Heidi M. Feldman, Katherine E. Travis

NeuroImage, Volume 256, 2022, 119240, ISSN 1053-8119 (2022)

Elior Drori, Shai Berman, Aviv A. Mezer

SCIENCE ADVANCES, Vol 8, Issue 28 (2022)

Shir Filo, Rona Shaharabani, Daniel Bar Hanin, Masha Adam, Eliel Ben-David, Hanan Schoffman, Nevo Margalit, Naomi Habib, Tal Shahar, Aviv Mezer

bioRxiv 2022.05.02.490254 (2022)

Elizabeth Huber, Aviv Mezer, Jason D. Yeatman

NeuroImage 243, 118453 (2021)

Vaidehi S. Natu, Mona Rosenke, Hua Wu, Francesca R. Querdasi, Holly Kular, Nancy Lopez-Alvarez, Mareike Grotheer, Shai Berman, Aviv A. Mezer & Kalanit Grill-Spector

Communications Biology 4, 1191 (2021)

A Erramuzpe, R Schurr, J D Yeatman, I H Gotlib, M D Sacchet, K E Travis, H M Feldman, A A Mezer

Cerebral Cortex, Volume 31, Issue 2, February, Pages 1211–1226 (2021)

Shai Berman, Yael Backner, Ronnie Krupnik, Friedemann Paul, Panayiota Petrou, Dimitrios Karussis, Netta Levin, Aviv A. Mezer

NeuroImage 117204, ISSN 1053-8119 (2020)

Schurr R, Zelman A, Mezer AA

NeuroImage Volume 208, 116439 (2020)

Shai Berman, Roey Schurr, Gal Atlan, Ami Citri, Aviv A Mezer

Cerebral Cortex Communications tgaa062 (2020)

Bain JS, Filo S, Mezer AA

Brain Structure and Function, pp 1-12 (2019)

Amitay Nachmani, Roey Schurr, Leo Joskowicz, Aviv A Mezer

Medical image analysis (2019)

Bain JS, Yeatman JD, Schurr R, Rokem A, Mezer AA

Human Brain Mapping (2019)

Filo S, Shtangel O, Salamon N, Kol A, Weisinger B, Shifman S, Mezer AA

Nature Communications (2019)

Hiromasa Takemura, Shumpei Ogawa, Aviv A. Mezer, Hiroshi Horiguchi, Atsushi Miyazaki, Kenji Matsumoto, Keigo Shikishima, Tadashi Nakano, Yoichiro Masuda

NeuroImage: Clinical (2019)

Travis KE, Castro MRH, Berman S, Dodson CK, Mezer AA, Ben-Shachar M, Feldman HM.

Neuroimage Clin. 2019 Mar 12;22:101756 (2019)

Berman, S, West KL, Does MD, Yeatman JD, Mezer AA.

NeuroImage 182, 304-313 (2018)

Schurr, R, Duan Y, Norcia AM, Ogawa S, Yeatman JD, Mezer AA.

NeuroImage (2018)

Mezer AA., Filo S.

Quantitative MRI of the Brain, 55-72 (2018)

Lévy, S., Guertin, M. C., Khatibi, A., Mezer, A., Martinu, K., Chen, J. I., … & Cohen-Adad, J.

PloS one (2018)

Duval, T, Lévy S, Stikov N, Campbell J, Mezer A, Witzel T, Keil B, Smith V, Wald LL, Klawiter E, Cohen-Adad J.

NeuroImage (2017)

Gomez, J, Barnett MA, Natu V, Mezer A, Palomero-Gallagher N, Weiner KS, Amunts K, Zilles K, Grill-Spector K.

Science (2017)

Mezer, A, Rokem A, Berman S, Hastie T, Wandell BA.

Hum Brain Mapp (2016)

Travis KE, Golden NH, Feldman HM, Solomon M, Nguyen J, Mezer A, Yeatman JD, Dougherty RF.

Neuroimage Clin. 2015 Oct 23;9:648-59 (2015)

Duan Y, Norcia AM, Yeatman JD, Mezer A.

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. (2015)

Rokem A, Yeatman JD, Pestilli F, Kay KN, Mezer A, van der Walt S, Wandell BA.

PLoS One. 2015 Apr 16;10(4):e0123272 (2015)

Our Lab is now recruiting students and postdocs interested in human brain imaging. Background in MR, biophysics, computer-science, engineering or other related fields can be advantageous.

We are also looking for post-docs or researchers (full/part time) with background in MR-physics.

Please send CV, a short research interests statement, and names of potential references to: aviv.mezer@elsc.huji.ac.il

Aviv Mezer

Professor

Phone: +972-2-6584617
Address: The Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences
The Suzanne and Charles Goodman Brain Sciences Building,
Level 2, Room 2202, Edmond J. Safra Campus,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9190401
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