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Profile
| Academic position | Full Professor |
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| Research fields | Software Engineering and Programming Languages,Cell Biology,Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology |
| Keywords | Gene expression and chromatin dynamics, Computational molecular biology, Machine learning, Bayesian Networks, Sequence and genome evolution |
Current contact address
| Country | Israel |
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| City | Jerusalem |
| Institution | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Institute | School of Computer Sciences and Engineering |
Host during sponsorship
| Prof. Dr. Dr. Nikolaus Rajewsky | Systembiologie von Gen-regulatorischen Elementen, Max-Delbrück-Centrum für Molekulare Medizin (MDC), Berlin |
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| Start of initial sponsorship | 01/11/2015 |
Programme(s)
| 2015 | Humboldt Research Award Programme |
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Nominator's project description
| Professor Friedman is an internationally recognized researcher in cellular decision-making and information processing. He has made outstanding and highly influential contributions in the area of machine learning, using powerful probabilistic graphical models. Professor Friedman will combine his expertise in high-throughput functional screening in yeast and computational biology with Professor Rajewsky’s competence in RNA biology to identify new sequence elements in cellular messenger RNA molecules which confer subcellular localization instructions. |