| Adi Stern Ph.D. Student in the department of Cell Biology and Immunology at Tel-Aviv Uni. under the supervision of Dr.Tal Pupko |
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Contact info E-mail: sternadi@post.tau.ac.il Tel.: 03-6409245 Fax.: 03-6422046 |
| Research Interests - Modelling protein evolution - Computational virology - Positive and purifying selection in proteins - Lateral gene transfer |
Teaching Fall 2007-2008: Introduction to bioinformatics |
The lab gang Itay Mayrose Adi Doron Nimrod Rubinstein David Burstein Eyal Privman Osnat Penn (Zomer) Ofir Cohen Tal Peled Daiana Alaluf |
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Article in Haaretz on 10 promising PhD students My CV |
Publications Sela N, Stern, A., Pupko, T., Ast, G. Transduplication resulted in incorporation of a conserved protein domain sequence within the transposable element Harbinger Turmoil-1 in C. elegans. Biology Direct. 2008 Oct 8;3:41 Penn O.*, Stern A.*, Rubinstein N., Dutheil J., Bacharach E., Galtier N., Pupko T. 2008. Evolutionary modeling of rate shifts reveals specificity determinants in HIV-1 subtypes. PLoS Computational Biology. 2008 Nov;4(11):e1000214. *Authors contributed equally. Cohen, O., Rubinstein, ND., Stern, A., Gophna, U., and Pupko, T. A likelihood framework to analyze phyletic patterns. Proceedings of The Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences. 2008 Dec 27;363(1512):3903-11. Stern A., Mayrose I., Shaul S., Gophna U., Pupko T. An Evolutionary Analysis of Lateral Gene Transfer in Thymidylate Synthase Enzymes. In press. Stern, A., Doron-Faigenboim, A., Erez, E., Martz, E., Bacharach, E., Pupko, T. Selecton 2007: advanced models for detecting positive and purifying selection using a Bayesian inference approach. Nucleic Acids Research. 35: W506-W511.[pdf] [abs] Stern, A., Privman, E., Rasis, M., Lavi, S., Pupko, T. 2007. Evolution of the metazoan protein phosphatase 2C superfamily. J. Mol. Evol. 64(1):61-70. [pdf] [abs] Stern, A., Pupko, T. 2006. An Evolutionary Space-Time Model with Varying Among Site Dependencies. Mol. Biol. Evol. 23: 392-400 [pdf] [abs] Doron-Faigenboim, A.*, Stern, A.*, Mayrose, I., Bacharach, E., and Pupko, T. 2005. Selecton: a server for detecting evolutionary forces at a single amino-acid site. Bioinformatics. 21(9): 2101-2103. *Authors contributed equally. [pdf] [abs] |
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Presentations Selecton: A Web Server for the Detection of Site-Specific Positive Darwinian Selection and Purifying Selection (Software Demonstration). 5th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2006). Eilat, Israel. January 2007. An Evolutionary Space-time model with Varying among Site Dependencies (Oral presentation). Annual meeting for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Tempe, Arizona. May 2006. Stern A., Pupko T. Poster at MEP 2005, France: An Evolutionary Space-time model with Varying among Site Dependencies. Stern A., Pupko T., Poster at the Center for Complexity Science Meeting: Predicting Functional Regions in a Protein Using a Hidden Markov Model [ppt] Doron-Faigenboim, A., Stern, A., Mayrose, I., Cohen, O., Rubinstein, N., Bacharach, E., Pupko, T., Poster at the Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium, IBS 2004: A Server for Detecting Selection at a Single Amino-Acid Site [pdf] |
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Pictures...pictures...pictures |
My beautiful beautiful boy Ilay |
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| Adam and Adi's marriage ceremony |
Top of the world (almost): Nepal 2004 |
Chupa's homepage |
Things that I am crazy about |
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Music! Level 1 - Nirvana (It's better to burn out than fade away. Kurt Cobain), Therapy, Dream Theatre, Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No. 2), Radiohead Level 2 (non-exhaustive list) - Spock's Beard, Alice in Chains, Porcupine Tree, Guns 'n' Roses, Stone Temple Pilots, Knessiyat Ha-Sekhel, Algir |
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Don't panic! 42 We are the Knights who say..... "Ni"! |
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