Prof. Eran Segal
Department of Computer Science And Applied Math
CS & Math Building 2, Room 111
Weizmann Institute of Science
Tel: +972-8-934-4282
eran.segal@weizmann.ac.il
My research in Computational and Systems Biology focuses on Nutrition, Genetics, Microbiome, and Gene Regulation and their effect on health and disease. We aim to develop personalized nutrition and personalized medicine. Selected publications:
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Systematic discovery of cap-independent translation sequences in human and viral genomes Science, 2016 |
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Personalized nutrition by prediction of glycemic responses Cell, 2015. TedEx. The New York Times. |
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Growth dynamics of gut microbiota in health and disease inferred from single metagenomic samples Science, 2015 |
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Artificial sweeteners induce glucose intolerance by altering the gut microbiota Nature, 2014. The New York Times |
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In pursuit of design principles of regulatory sequences Nature Reviews Genetics, 2014 |
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Inferring gene regulatory logic from high-throughput measurements of thousands of systematically designed promoters Nature Biotechnology, 2012 |
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Genome-wide measurement of RNA secondary structure in yeast Nature, 2010 |
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From DNA sequence to transcriptional behaviour: a quantitative approach Nature Reviews Genetics, 2009 |
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The DNA-Encoded Nucleosome Organization of a Eukaryotic Genome Nature, 2009 |
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Predicting expression patterns from regulatory sequence in Drosophila segmentation Nature, 2008 |
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The role of site accessibility in microRNA target recognition Nature Genetics, 2007 |
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A Genomic Code for Nucleosome Positioning Nature, 2006. The New York Times. |