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Maor Knafo

@maorknak.bsky.social
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Postdoc at Ziv Reich's lab, Weizmann Institute of Science. Studying phenotypic variability and biological learning. MaorKnafo.com

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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
First swarm experiment! 8 CLBOH (Capsaspora little box of horrors) mapping out a phenotypic landscape while trying their absolute best to not burn the colture room to the ground! Read link to our PRXLife paper in the next massage to see what's going on
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PLOS One @plosone.org · 29/01/2026
A new study from @maorknak.bsky.social and colleagues introduces CoSMIC, a hybrid sequencing strategy that improves microbial community profiling resolution and sensitivity across novel habitats versus standard 16S methods while lowering per-sample cost,.
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CoSMIC: A hybrid approach for large-scale, high-resolution microbial profiling of novel niches
Standard microbial profiling based on 16S rRNA (16S) sequencing suffers from a lack of primer universality, primer biases, and often yields low resolution. We introduce ‘Comprehensive Small Ribosomal…
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
New blog post! I’ve been 3D printing a lot lately, which naturally got me thinking about how little my printer cares what I’m trying to do, how fragile it is, and how goal-less it feels. Still, I think every biologist should definitely get one. www.maorknafo.com/reducible-be...
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3D printers are inherently anti-developmental (but are huge fun and you should definitely get one) — Maor Knafo - System Biology
I love 3D printing. I'm fascinated with it to the point where the stuff I make is, sometimes, almost meaningless. I love the designing part the most, all the problem-solving, contorting my brain to im...
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Science, at its best, is just a bunch of people saying, “Look at this crazy shit!” At its worst, it’s someone saying, “But what’s the mechanism?”🧪
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
This is the pipeline I've built and use to find crispr targets on weird organisms, if anyone is looking for one: github.com/maorkn/CRISP...
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GitHub - maorkn/CRISPR_HUNTER: scripts for genric crispr desgin
scripts for genric crispr desgin. Contribute to maorkn/CRISPR_HUNTER development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The 60s were a weird time, and no one was weirder than a group of scientists studying the transfer of memories via cannibalism in flatworms. A new blog post in praise of cellular learning! www.maorknafo.com/reducible-be...
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Memories all the way down. — Maor Knafo - System Biology
Could memories be an emergent cellular property ? The 60s were a weird time, and no one was weirder than a group of scientists studying the transfer of memories via cannibalism in flatworms. Flatworm...
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Wrote a short story www.maorknafo.com/reducible-be...
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Laplace and All His Demons. — Maor Knafo - System Biology
The evening deepened. The games were played, the food was eaten, and the events moved along their planned course, drawn by invisible threads, traveling along hewn tracks. Noah rubbed his eyes sleepil...
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is an image that has haunted me since I was a child because it captures something truly inherent to the human experience. We can get used to anything. A new blog post about habituation—it's been a while, needed to get un-used to a few things. maorknafo.com/reducible-beau…🧪
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 17/06/2024
Waddington's landscape contamination in the lab today! 🍄📷🧪
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 12/12/2023
A new #preprint! Variability is strange, right? Especially when it arises in the background of an identical genetic background. Why would cells, having the same machinery, regulation, and environment, behave differently? Why would there be #noise? 1/13 rb.gy/45y36m
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 06/10/2023
Terrarium going a bit crazy these past weeks. Constantly changing. 🍄📷
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 28/09/2023
ganoderma sp.? 🧪🍄📷 "What an organism feeds upon is negative entropy. Or, to put it less paradoxically, the essential thing in metabolism is that the organism succeeds in freeing itself from all the entropy it cannot help producing while alive" Erwin Schrödinger, What is Life?
ganoderma sp fungi growing on a dead tree stump.
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Guys, guys, am I just seeing things or is this a budding yeast cell??? Great song BTW 🧪🍄
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Mine is kinda long... But beautiful.
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
Starting to look like autumn (finally). False parasol? 🧪🍄
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 14/09/2023
🧪🧪New blog post! How (and why) do organisms optimize tasks, and why are they flat about it? The use of Mutual Information in Pareto fronts and slimy aliens.🌌👾📊 maorknafo.com/reducible-beau… In the comments, I'll link to the previous posts, which I think are helpful (and cool😆).
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Maor Knafo @maorknak.bsky.social · 13/09/2023
🧪New Preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Is microbiome surveying accurate? Meaningful? Robust? For the most part, the answer is sadly underwhelming, especially for those working in undersampled niches. 1/8
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