Lab news

Welcome to Gabrielle (Gaby) Ecanow, who joined the group as a summer student as part of the MISTI-MIT-Israel program. She will be guided by Tom and work on gene expression and regulation. We wish her a fun and fruitful summer!

A paper describing Dvir’s software PROMO is now available on bioRxiv. PROMO is an interactive Matlab-based software for analyzing large clinical+omic datasets like TCGA.

Congratulations to Lianrong Pu, who won the “ACM China Excellent PhD Thesis” award! The award will be given in the ACM Turing Conference hold in China, Chengdu, on May 17th-18th 2019.

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.