Yotam obtained his BSc in Life Sciences from the Technion, where he also pursued his MSc studies under the supervision of Prof. Yehuda Assaraf. Yotam carried out his PhD work at the Hebrew University on the Prader-Willi syndrome/Angelman syndrome (PWS/AS) imprinted domain with Prof. Aharon Razin mentoring him. Before joining the lab, Yotam held Post Doc positions in the Institute of Molecular Genetics in Montpellier in France, and in the Hebrew University. Yotam is currently working on deciphering the roles of sRNAs in interbacterial interactions. Yotam's favorite activity in the lab is finding missing catalogue numbers.