Dr. Sharon received his B.Sc, M.Sc, and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. His Ph.D. thesis, done under the supervision of Prof. Oded Beja and Prof. Ron Pinter, focused on the development of computational methods for the study of microbial communities through metagenomics and the application of these methods for the study of phages in marine environments. Dr. Sharon did his postdoc at Prof. Jill Banfield's lab at UC Berkeley. During this time, he developed methods for genome-resolved metagenomics and applied them to study microbial communities in the gut of newborns, groundwater, and soil.
Dr. Sharon's research group at Migal/Tel-Hai focuses on
- Developing methods for analyzing metagenomics data with an emphasis on soil
- Studying the interplay between soil and plant microbiomes and their environment
- Utilizing large public genomic and metagenomic datasets to improve the robustness of human (and other environments) microbiome studies
