Yonatan Bendett

Curriculum Vitae

Education:

2023-present Ph.D student at the School of Plant Sciences and Food Security. Title: Open questions in evolutionary theory from host-microbiome perspective: social conflicts, senescence, reproduction and stress. Advisor: Prof. Lilach Hadany.
2021-2023 M.Sc. in Theoretical and Mathematical Biology, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security. Title: Theoretical models on the role of microbes in the evolution of their hosts social behavior: 1. Little Peacemakers: microbes can promote non-violent conflict resolution by their hosts. 2. (Appendix) Microbiome-related aspects of locust density-dependent phase transition. Advisor: Prof. Lilach Hadany. Summa cum laude.
2017-2022 B.Sc. in Biology (summa cum laude) and Physics at Tel-Aviv University in Israel. Student in the "Adi Lautman Outstanding Students Program".

Awards and Honours:

Rector Excellence in Teaching award, Tel-Aviv University (2025).
Tel Aviv University 100 list, teaching excellence award, Tel-Aviv University (2025).
Excellence in teaching award from the Life-Science faculty, Tel-Aviv University (2024).
Excellence in teaching award from the Life-Science faculty, Tel-Aviv University (2022).
Four years of full scholarship based on academic excellence, "Adi Lautman Outstanding Students Program" (2018-2022).
Dean's certificate of excellence, Life-Science faculty, Tel-Aviv University (2018).

Publications:

Bendett, Y. and Hadany, L., 2025. Little Peacemakers: Microbes Can Promote Nonviolent Conflict Resolution by Their Hosts. Ecology and Evolution, 15: e71129. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71129 (2025): [HTML]
Lavy, O., Lewin-Epstein, O., Bendett, Y., Gophna, U., Gefen, E., Hadany, L., Ayali, A., 2022. Microbiome-related aspects of locust density-dependent phase transition. Environmental Microbiology. [HTML]

Presentations:

Oral presentation at the Zoological Society of Israel 61th conference in the faculty of agriculture, Rehovot, Israel, 2024. Title: " Non-violent conflict resolution: a role for microbes?"
Poster presentation at the Israeli Society of Evolutionary Biology 2024 (ISEB) meeting in Jerusalem, Israel, 2024. Title: " The war of attrition: a perspective of microbial residents"
Oral presentation at the Israeli Society of Evolutionary Biology 2023 (ISEB) meeting in Haifa, Israel, 2023. Title: " Non-violent conflict resolution: a role for microbes?"
Poster presentation at the 3rd Israeli Conference for Conservation Science (ICCS) in Tel-Aviv, Israel, 2022. Title: "Microbiome-related aspects of locust density-dependent phase transition".

Teaching:

TA in Population Genetics and the Evolutionary Theory course (0455-3061). Life Sciences faculty, (TAU 2025).
TA in Extended Mathematics B course (0455-2814). Life Sciences faculty, (TAU 2024).
TA in Statistics for the life sciences excellence program course (0455-1810). Life Sciences faculty, (TAU 2024).
TA in Population Genetics and the Evolutionary Theory course (0455-3061). Life Sciences faculty, (TAU 2024).

TA in Statistics for the life sciences excellence program course (0455-1810). Life Sciences faculty, (TAU 2023).
TA in Population Genetics and the Evolutionary Theory course (0411-3061). Life Sciences faculty, (TAU 2022).