Ran Elkon
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Biography
Ran Elkon has completed his BSc in Physics and PhD in Bioinformatics in Tel Aviv University (TAU). He did his Postdoctoral training in the lab of Prof. Agami at the Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Amsterdam. He heads a Bioinformatics Research Group in the Department of Human Molecular Genetics in the Faculty of Medicine (TAU). His lab aims at elucidating, using bioinformatics methods, how interruptions in cellular regulatory mechanisms contribute to the development of human pathological conditions, primarily cancer. His study of various tiers of gene regulation utilizes cutting-edge deep-sequencing techniques that allow genomic-scale delineation of regulatory layers that were so far largely unexplored.