Bejerano Lab, Stanford University

Gill Bejerano, Ph.D.

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Associate Professor of Developmental Biology
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Medical Genetics)
Associate Professor, Department of Biomedical Data Science
Stanford University

Faculty affiliations: Artificial Intelligence Lab, Bio-X, BioMedical Informatics, Child Health Research Institute, Computational Biology Group, Stanford Cancer Institute

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Research interests: Vertebrate cis-regulation (read more)
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Education
2004	Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1997	B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Israel

Selected Awards
2012	Weizmann Institute Student Conference Invited Speaker
2010	U. Chicago Student Invited Speaker
2009	Faculty Fellow, Microsoft Research
2008	Fellow, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
	UC Berkeley Center for Computational Biology Retreat keynote
	Searle Scholar
	Young Investigator Award, Human Frontier Science Program
	Fellow, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
	Tomorrow's principal investigator, Genome Technology Magazine
2007	Junior faculty grant, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation
1999,2003	Best paper by a young scientist award, the RECOMB conference

Selected Recent & Upcoming Talks
2013	Sao Paulo School of Advanced Science
	Genome, Disease and Evolution Symposium, Laussane
2012	American Society for Human Genetics, San Francisco
	Sci Foo Camp invitee, Google
	Genetics Seminar, Yale
	Evo-Devo Student Conference, Weizmann Institute, Israel
	Genome Frontiers Institute seminar, U. Penn.
	Invited speaker, CSU Monterey Bay
	Human Genetics Seminar, UC Davis
	International Conference on Transposable Elements, Asilomar
	Modern Human Genetic Variation Symposium, Stockholm
	PRBB-PRC Barcelona

Selected Publications

M. Hiller, B.T. Schaar, V.B. Indjeian, D.M. Kingsley, L.R. Hagey, and G. Bejerano. A "Forward Genomics" Approach Links Genotype to Phenotype using Independent Phenotypic Losses among Related Species. Cell Reports 2012.

S.L. Clarke, J.E. Vandermeer, A.M. Wenger, B.T. Schaar, N. Ahituv and G. Bejerano. Human Developmental Enhancers Conserved between Deuterostomes and Protostomes. PLoS Genet. 8(8):e1002852, 2012.

C.Y. McLean, P.L. Reno, A.A. Pollen, A.I. Bassan, T.D. Capellini, C. Guenther, V.B. Indjeian, X. Lim, D.B. Menke, B.T. Schaar, A.M. Wenger, G. Bejerano and D.M. Kingsley. Human-specific loss of regulatory DNA and the evolution of human-specific traits. Nature 471:216–219, 2011.

C.Y. McLean, D. Bristor, M. Hiller, S.L. Clarke, B.T. Schaar, C.B. Lowe, A.M. Wenger and G. Bejerano. GREAT improves functional interpretation of cis-regulatory regions. Nature Biotechnology 28(5):495-501, 2010.

C. McLean and G. Bejerano. Dispensability of mammalian DNA. Genome Research 18(11):1743-1751, 2008.

G. 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, 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 and G. Yona. Variations on probabilistic suffix trees - a new tool for statistical modeling and prediction of protein families, Bioinformatics, 17:23-43, 2001.