Education and Training

• 2004 - 2008: Postdoctoral fellow in Craig Hunter's lab at Harvard University

• 2002 - 2004: Postdoctoral fellow in Doron Lancet's lab at Weizmann Institute of Science

• 1998 - 2002: PhD in Bioinformatics in Charles DeLisi's lab in Boston University

• 1993 - 1997: Bachelor of Sciences/Arts, Boston University

  • BS: Computer Engineering, College of Engineering.

  • BA: Philosophy of Science, University Professors Program, thesis work in H. Eugene Stanley's lab.

Other Training

• 2007 - 2008: Visiting postdoctoral fellow in Marc Kirschner's lab at the Systems Biology Department, Harvard Medical School

• 2003: Visiting research fellow at EMBL, Heidelberg, in Peer Bork’s lab

• 2001: Visiting student, NCBI, NIH, in Eugene Koonin’s lab.

• 1997-1998: Research assistant, Pasteur Institute, France, in Antoine Danchin’s lab.

Academic Honors

• Whitaker Graduate Fellow (1998-2002)

• Koshland Postdoctoral Scholar (2002-2004)

• EMBO Short-term Fellowship (2003)

• NIH NRSA Fellow (2006-2008)

• Yigal Alon Fellowship - Israel's Council for Higher Education (2008-present)

Teaching

• Developed and instructed an Evolutionary Genomics Course given at the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, during the 2003 and 2004 Spring semesters.

• Developed and instructed the “Genomics and Pharmacogenomics” course along with Adnan Derti and Jeff Moore, during the Fall 2000 semester as part of the the Bioinformatics Certificate Program at Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts.