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Gill Bejerano, Ph.D.
E-mail: bejerano@stanford.edu
Assistant Professor of
Developmental Biology
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University Faculty affiliations: AI Lab, Bio-X, BMI
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Available: faculty profile, full CV, short Bio, short signature.
Editorial Board Member: Gene
| Education |
| 2004 |
Ph.D., Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1997 |
B.Sc., Hebrew
University, Israel Honors: Summa Cum Laude |
| Previous Positions |
| 2003-2007 |
Postdoctoral researcher
with Professor David Haussler, UC Santa Cruz |
| 1996-2003 |
Senior Lecturer/Lecturer, Open
University, Hadassah Academic College and Jerusalem Academic
College of Engineering, Israel |
| 1997-1999 |
Teaching assistant (frontal), Hebrew
University |
| Selected Awards |
| 2008 |
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow |
| 2008 |
Tomorrow's principal investigator, Genome Technology Magazine
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| 2007 |
Junior faculty grant, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation
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| 1999,2003 |
Best paper by a young
scientist award, the RECOMB conference |
| Recent Invited
Talks |
| 2008 | UCLA Bioinformatics seminar, California | | 2007 | Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan | | Stanford Bio-X Talks in English, California (watch) | | Gordon Bioinformatics Conference, New Hampshire | | FASEB Mobile Elements meeting, Arizona | | 2006 | NSF
advisory meeting, Princeton (watch) |
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Google, California (watch)
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INSERM Workshop on Identification of
Non-Coding Functional Regions in Genomes, France |
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International Conference on Genomic Impact
of Eukaryotic Transposable Elements, California |
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Genentech, California |
| Selected
Publications |
- C.B.
Lowe, G.
Bejerano and D. Haussler. Thousands of human mobile element
fragments undergo strong purifying selection near developmental genes. PNAS 104(19):8005-8010, 2007.
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Bejerano, C.B. Lowe, N. Ahituv, B. King, A. Siepel, S.R. Salama,
E.M. Rubin, W.J. Kent and D. Haussler. A Distal Enhancer and an
Ultraconserved Exon are Derived From a Novel Retroposon. Nature,
441(7089):87-90, 2006.
- G. Bejerano, A.C.
Siepel, W.J. Kent and D. Haussler. Computational screening of conserved
genomic DNA in search of functional non-coding elements. Nature
Methods, 2(7):535-545, 2005.
- G. Bejerano, M.
Pheasant, I. Makunin, S. Stephen, W.J. Kent, J.S. Mattick, and D.
Haussler. Ultraconserved Elements in the Human Genome, Science,
304:1321-1325, 2004.
- G. Bejerano, D. Haussler
and M. Blanchette. Into the Heart of Darkness: Large Scale Clustering
of Human Non-Coding DNA, Bioinformatics,
20:I40-I48, 2004.
- G. Bejerano, N.
Friedman, and N. Tishby. "Efficient exact p-value computation for small
sample, sparse and surprising categorical data", Journal of Computational
Biology, 11:867-886, 2004.
- G. Bejerano and G. Yona.
Variations on probabilistic suffix trees - a new tool for statistical
modeling and prediction of protein families, Bioinformatics,
17:23-43,
2001.
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