Challenge Bejerano Lab

Gill Bejerano, Ph.D.

E-mail: bejerano@stanford.edu

Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Stanford University

Faculty affiliations:  Artificial Intelligence LabBio-X, BioMedical Informatics, Computational Biology Group

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Gill Bejerano
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Editorial Board Member: Gene (2007-8)
Technical Advisory Board: Numenta

Education
2004 Ph.D., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
1997 B.Sc. (Summa Cum Laude), Hebrew University, Israel

Selected Awards
2009New Faculty Fellow, Microsoft Research
2008 Fellow, David & Lucile Packard Foundation
Research Grant Award, Okawa Foundation

Searle Scholar
Young Investigator Award, Human Frontier Science Program
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellow
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

Recent Invited Talks
2009USC Seminar
Jackson Laboratory guest seminar, Maine
Microsoft Research Faculty Summit, Washington
RECOMB Satellite Conference on Bioinformatics Education, CA
Genomic Impact of Eukaryotic Transposable Elements Int'l Conference, CA
2008UC Berkeley Computational Biology retreat keynote
University of Toronto Molecular Genetics guest seminar
MPI Berlin Dahlem Colloquium, Germany
EMBL guest seminar, Germany
UC Davis Evolutionary Genomics seminar, California
UCLA Bioinformatics seminar, California

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