Shainer - פקולטה לביולוגיה Biology Faculty

Education/ Resume:

2019-2024 Postdoctoral research fellow, Department Genes-Circuit-Behavior, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence, Martinsried, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Herwig Baier.

2022-2023 Senior Intern, Life Sciences, Department of Brain research, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Host: Dr. Takashi Kawashima.

2012-2018 PhD, Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Advisor: Prof. Yoav Gothilf.

2011-2009 M.Sc., Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Advisor: Prof. Yoav Gothilf. Magna cum laude

2000-2003 B.Sc., Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv, Israel.

Research Summary

Research in the Inbal Shainer lab examines the intricate relationship between cell types and brain function, focusing on the visual system in fish. We explore pathways in comparative neuroscience, transcriptomics, animal behavior, and visual ecology to understand how neuronal building blocks and transcriptional programs are utilized for different sensory and behavioral requirements.

Awards

2023 Bridge position award granted by the Weizmann institute program for Advancing Women in Science

2020-2022 The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship

Key Publications

Shainer I, Kappel JM, Laurell E, Al Kassar M, Schneider M, Kuehn E, Arnold-Ammer I, Stemmer M, Larsch J, Baier H. Positional information drives distinct traits in transcriptomically identified neuronal types. bioRxiv 2024:2024-09.

Shainer I, Kuehn E, Laurell E, Al Kassar M, Mokayes N, Sherman S, Larsch J, Kunst M, Baier H. A single-cell resolution gene expression atlas of the larval zebrafish brain. Science Advances9, no. 8 (2023): eade9909.

Shainer I, Michel M, Marquart GD, Bhandiwad AA, Zmora N, Livne ZB, Zohar Y, Hazak A, Mazon Y, Förster D, Hollander-Cohen L, Cone RD, Burgess HA, Gothilf Y. Agouti-related protein 2 is a new player in the teleost stress response system. Current Biology. 2019 Jun 17;29(12):2009-19.

Recent Publications:

Shainer I, Kappel JM, Laurell E, Al Kassar M, Schneider M, Kuehn E, Arnold-Ammer I, Stemmer M, Larsch J, Baier H. Positional information drives distinct traits in transcriptomically identified neuronal types. bioRxiv 2024:2024-09.

Haruvi, Ravid, Rani Barbara, Inbal Shainer, Ayelet M. Rosenberg, Lihi Moshe, Dorel Malamud, Jonathan Toledano, Dotan Braun, Herwig Baier, and Takashi Kawashima. Global and compartmentalized serotonergic control of sensorimotor integration underlying motor adaptation. bioRxiv 2024:2024-09.

Wulliman M, Mokayes N, Shainer I, Kuehn E, Baier H. Genoarchitectonics of the larval zebrafish diencephalon. Comp. Neurol. 2024 Mar 532(3):e25549.

Shainer I, Kuehn E, Laurell E, Al Kassar M, Mokayes N, Sherman S, Larsch J, Kunst M, Baier H. A single-cell resolution gene expression atlas of the larval zebrafish brain. Science Advances9, no. 8 (2023): eade9909. * Co-first author.

Kappel JM, Förster D, Slangewal K, Shainer I, Svara F, Donovan JC, Sherman S, Januszewski M, Baier H, Larsch J. Visual recognition of social signals by a tectothalamic neural circuit. Nature. 2022 Jul 13:1-7.

Shainer I, Stemmer M. Choice of pre-processing pipeline influences clustering quality of scRNA-seq datasets. BMC genomics. 2021 Dec;22(1):1-3.

Shainer I, Michel M, Marquart GD, Bhandiwad AA, Zmora N, Livne ZB, Zohar Y, Hazak A, Mazon Y, Förster D, Hollander-Cohen L, Cone RD, Burgess HA, Gothilf Y. Agouti-related protein 2 is a new player in the teleost stress response system. Current Biology. 2019 Jun 17;29(12):2009-19.

Open Positions

The Shainer lab is recruiting at all levels!