Lab news

Congrats to David Pellow, who passed the PhD thesis proposal exam and advanced to phase B of the doctoral studies.

Read the manuscript by Ron Zeira reviewing some central models and results in genome rearrangement analysis, with an emphasis on multiple copies and cancer.

Read Kobi’s paper (jointly with Karen Avraham) analyzing expression profiles of the developing auditory organs, and prioritizing novel deafness genes.

Congratulations to Roye for approval of this doctoral degree. Roye graduated last year and the refereeing process of his thesis was now completed, making his degree official.

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

Read the BioRxiv preprint  of Idan Nurick and Rani Elkon on the interplay between 3D chromatin structure, gene expression and stress, based on a large-scale meta-analysis that integrated Hi-C data from thirteen different cell lines and dozens of ChIP-seq and RNA-seq datasets.

The lecture notes of Ron Shamir’s course “Advanced topics in Graph Algorithms” have been translated to German. See link. This is the tenth translation of the course, following Ukranian, Indonesian, Russian, Estonian, Bulgarian, Frensh, Czech, Swedish and Spanish.

Read Ron Zeira’s Bioinformatics paper on Sorting cancer karyotypes by DCJs, duplications and deletions using integer linear programming.

Tom Hait’s new method for linking enhancers to the promoters regulated by them has been published in Genome Biology. See also the website.      

Congratulations to Nimrod Rappoport, who passed the qualifying exam for the direct PhD track! Nimrod will do his PhD research jointly with Amos Tanay’s group at WIS.