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Research interests: Vertebrate cis-regulation (read more)
Available: faculty profile, full CV.
| Education |
| 2004 |
Ph.D., Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Israel |
| 1997 |
B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew
University, Israel |
| Selected Awards |
| 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 |
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Searle Scholar
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| 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
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| 1999,2003 |
Best paper by a young
scientist award, the RECOMB conference |
| Selected Recent & Upcoming Talks |
| 2012 | Genetics Seminar, Yale | | Evo-Devo Student Conference, Weizmann Inst., 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, Spain | | 2011 | Pinkham Basic Science Conference, Seattle | | FASEB Mobile DNA meeting, Colorado | | SMBE Symposium, Kyoto | | Future of Evolutionary Biology Workshop, Oklahoma | | X-GEN Congress & Expo, San Diego | | Strategic Conference of Zebrafish Investigators, Asilomar |
| Selected
Publications |
- 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.
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