British Scientific Competitions and My Little Sister

The Winning Lecture at the FameLab Science Competition: the Gene that Promotes Monogamy

Adi Yaniv, a Biomedical Masters student at the Hebrew University Dental School, won a trip to the science festival at Chatham, and a laptop.

Adi Yaniv, a Masters student at the Dental School at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem is the winner of the FameLab competition. In this competition, young scientists are asked to explain complex scientific topics to an audience of laymen in three minutes, and with no technical assistance whatsoever. The competition, organized by the British Council in cooperation with the Center for Scientific Education in Tel Aviv, has been taking place for two years, and has drawn, this year as well, outstanding young researchers, some of whom already published papers in esteemed scientific magazines.

The competition’s finals, which took place last week, nine researchers who won primary local competitions at the Technion (Israel Institute of Technology), the Center for Scientific Education in Tel Aviv, and the Science Museum in Jerusalem. The judges were Professor Ehud Gazit from the Tel Aviv University, Dr. Liat Hayardeny, a senior researcher of multiple sclerosis of Teva Pharmaceutical, and Dr. Adi Matan, the British scientific attache.

And the point is? One of the judges carries my last name. That’s no coincidence. Liat (Liush) Hayardeny is my little sister, and a world famous researcher of Multiple Sclerosis. Liat, I’m very proud of you. We all are!