Bejerano Lab

Kyu Y. Lee, Ph.D.

E-mail: klee@stmartin.edu

Professor of Computer Science
Beckman Center B321
279 Campus Drive West
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-5329

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

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
1999,2003 Best paper by a young scientist award, the RECOMB conference
1993,1999 Hebrew University Rector Prize, for undergraduate and for graduate studies
1999-2002 Levi Eshkol fellowship, Israeli Ministry of Science
1993-1997 Hebrew University "Amirim" B.Sc. program for excellent students

Invited Talks
2006 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
2005 Bay Area Bioinformatics Discussion Group, California
Washington University Genetics Department, Missouri
Applied Biosystems, California

Selected Publications
  • 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.
Bejerano LabDepartment of Developmental Biology and Department of Computer ScienceStanford University