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: AI Lab, Bio-X, BMI

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Gill Bejerano
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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
2007 Junior faculty grant, Edward Mallinckrodt, Jr. Foundation
1999,2003 Best paper by a young scientist award, the RECOMB conference

Recent Invited Talks
2008UCLA Bioinformatics seminar, California
2007Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Stanford Bio-X Talks in English, California (watch)
Gordon Bioinformatics Conference, New Hampshire
FASEB Mobile Elements meeting, Arizona
2006NSF advisory meeting, Princeton (watch)
Google, California (watch)
INSERM Workshop on Identification of Non-Coding Functional Regions in Genomes, France
International Conference on Genomic Impact of Eukaryotic Transposable Elements, California
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.
  • 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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