Lab news

Congratulations to Lianrong Pu who won the China Israel postdoctoral fellowship!

Dr. Lianrong Pu has joined the lab as a postdoc. She did her PhD in Shandong University, China. She spent two years of the PhD at Pavel Pevzner’s lab at UCSD. Lianrong has specialized in genome rearrangements and segmental duplications. In the group, she will work on genome rearrangements in cancer and on algorithms for…

Congrats to Ron Zeira, whose doctorate titled “Models for Structural and Numerical Alterations in Cancer” was approved by TAU. Ron is continuing to a postdoc in Ben Raphael’s lab in Princeton.

The Expander website has been translated to Russian. See here.

Nimrod Rappoport’s new method for cancer subtyping using multi-omic data appeared in Bioinformatics.

The paper on identifying enhancer-promoter links was accepted to the highlight track of RECOMB 2019 and will be presented by Tom Hait in the conference on May 2019 in Washington DC.

The lecture notes of Ron Shamir’s course “Advanced topics in Graph Algorithms” have been translated to Armenian. See link. This is the fourteenth translation of the course, following Ukrainian, Indonesian, Russian, Estonian, Bulgarian, French, Czech, Swedish, Spanish, German, Dutch, Punjabi and Greek.

Kobi Perl, MD student, has done PhD research jointly in our lab and in Prof. Karen Avraham’s lab (Medicine). His thesis “Understanding of Developmental and Physiological Conditions of the Inner Ear using Transcriptome and Proteome Analysis” has now been approved and is available here. Congratulations Kobi!

Roy Safra, a senior Bioinformatics BSc student, has joined the group as a programmer. He will be working with Nimrod on multiomics analysis methods.

Read the new report by Gal describing a new method for prioritizing mutated genes as drivers in a cancer patient.