Thereβs a good chance I will be offered a PhD at the Weizmann institute and I was wondering if there is anyone on this subreddit that is or was at the institute at some point. Any info about working there would be nice!
Hi Reddit! Weβre David Zeevi and Tal Korem, graduate students working on personalizing nutritional recommendations by prediction of postprandial glycemic responses. AUA!
Obesity and diabetes are practically pandemics; but the dietary recommendations aimed to deal with these conditions are pretty much uniform across all people. Does this make sense? Are people that similar?
In our research, we chose to focus on one quantification of the human response to food - the postprandial glycemic response (PPGR) When we digest our food, carbohydrates are broken down to simple sugars, and these are absorbed into the bloodstream, causing an increase in blood glucose levels, which later return to normal, usually with the help of insulin. That same PPGR is linked to obesity, diabetes risk and management (people with the disease try to lower their PPGRs), cardiovascular disease, and many other ailments. But it has an amazing added value - it allows us to immediately measure a response to every food eaten. So instead of prescribing a diet and waiting for months to see how it worked, we can test individual meals and analyze a personβs response to them immediately.
In our study (video abstract), we profiled 800 people, and found out that they respond very differently to identical meals, which raises the question of effectivity in non-personalized dietary recommendations. We then showed that many personal factors associated with this difference in response: anthropometric measurements (height, weight, etc.); blood test results; and also the composition and function of the microbiome. What we did next was to integrate all of these personal factors and more, as well as what the person actually ate, in terms of fat, protein, etc., into a prediction algorithm that could accurately predict PPGRs to unseen meals. And then finally, we performed a diet intervention study, in which we prescribed subjects with personally tailored diets created with our predictor, and demonstrated that they can reduce PPGRs in a clinical setting.
About us - weβre both graduate students at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel. Weβre interested in the link between nutrition, microbiome, and glycemic control. Aside from this project, we are also developing methods for microbiome analysis.
Weβll be back on November 23rd, at 1PM ET (10 am PT, 6 pm UTC) to answer your question
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I am a chemistry graduate from India and I have been accepted for a PhD position at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The salary I will be getting for the first year is about 6805 NIS pre-tax, and I understand tax rate for this income bracket is 14%, so I wanted to ask if me and my partner would be able to live a reasonably quite, comfortable life, (nothing too flashy), with this salary.
I looked up cost of living statistics in Rehovot but I can't seem to find a definite answer, so I figured that it is probably best to ask you guys. If you guys could give a breakup of cost of living, that would also be very helpful.
Also, my partner is an MBA graduate, and while she hasn't applied for a job yet, is her getting a job likely in Rehovot?
If there is anyone here from Weizmann, I would love to hear there advice as well.
Any further advice about life in Rehovot in particular, Israel in general would also be very much appreciated.
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