Tommy Kaplan
Senior Lecturer
School of Computer Science and EngineeringThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Computational Biology
Transcriptional regulation, Genomics, Computational Epigenomics and Chromatin
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Tommy Kaplan
Senior LecturerSchool of Computer Science and EngineeringThe Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Computational Biology
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Prior to joining The Hebrew University, I was a Post-Doctoral Fellow with Mike Eisen at
the University of California, Berkeley.
Open positions for excellent MSc and PhD students!
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Axel Visel,... Dalit May,... Tommy Kaplan, Arnold R. Kriegstein, Edward M. Rubin, Ivan Ovcharenko, Len A. Pennacchio, John L. R. Rubenstein A High-Resolution Enhancer Atlas of the Developing Telencephalon Cell, 2013, 10.1016/j.cell.2012.12.041 |
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Haiying Zhou, Tommy Kaplan, Yan Li, Ivan Grubisic, Zhengjian Zhang, P. Jeremy Wang, Michael B. Eisen and Robert Tjian Dual Functions of TAF7L in Adipocyte Differentiation eLife, 2013;2:e00170 [Supplemental data | GEO submission | Genome Browser] |
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Tommy Kaplan and Nir Friedman
Gene Expression: Running to Stand Still Nature, 2012, 484:171-172 [News and Views item of Lickwar, Lieb et al's Genome-wide protein-DNA binding dynamics suggest a molecular clutch for transcription factor function ] |
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Dalit May, Matthew J. Blow, Tommy Kaplan, David J. McCulley, Brian C. Jensen, Jennifer A. Akiyama, Amy Holt, Ingrid Plajzer-Frick, Malak Shoukry, Crystal Wright, Veena Afzal, Paul C. Simpson, Edward M. Rubin, Brian L. Black, James Bristow, Len A. Pennacchio, and Axel Visel
Large-Scale Discovery of Enhancers from Human Heart Tissue Nature Genetics, 2012, 44:89-93 [ Abstract | Supp. Information ] |
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Melissa M. Harrison*, Xiao-Yong Li*, Tommy Kaplan*, Michael R. Botchan and Michael B. Eisen
Zelda binding in the early Drosophila melanogaster embryo marks regions subsequently activated at the maternal-to-zygotic transition PLoS Genetics, 2011, 7(10): e1002266 [ Why Zelda is cool? | HHMI news | ZLD genome browser | Grizzly Peak fitting | Nat. Rev. Gen In Brief | F1000 ] |
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Tommy Kaplan, Xiaoyong Li, Peter Sabo, John A. Stamatoyannopoulos, Mark D. Biggin, and Michael B. Eisen
Quantitative Models of the Mechanisms that Control Genome-Wide Patterns of Transcription Factor Binding During Early Drosophila Development PLoS Genetics, 2011, 7(2): e1001290 [Book chapter] |
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Jeffrey E. Halley, Tommy Kaplan, Alice Y. Wang, Michael S. Kobor, and Jasper Rine
Roles for H2A.Z and Its Acetylation in GAL1 Transcription and Gene Induction, but Not GAL1-Transcriptional Memory PLoS Biology, 2010, 8(6):e1000401 [ F1000 ] |
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Moran Yassour*, Tommy Kaplan*, Hunter B. Fraser, Joshua Z. Levine, Jenna Pfiffner, Xian Adiconis, Gary Schroth, Shujun Luo, Irina Khrebtukova, Andreas Gnirke, Chad Nusbaum, Dawn-Anne Thompson, Nir Friedman, and Aviv Regev Ab initio Construction of a Eukaryotic Transcriptome by Massively Parallel mRNA Sequencing [ Supp. Data ] PNAS, 2009, 106(9):3264-9 |
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Tommy Kaplan*, Chih Long Liu*, Judith A. Erkmann*, John Holik, Michael Grunstein, Paul D. Kaufman, Nir Friedman and Oliver J. Rando Cell Cycle- and Chaperone-Mediated Regulation of H3K56ac Incorporation in Yeast PLoS Genetics, 2008, 4(11):e1000270 [ F1000 ] |
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Andrew P. Capaldi, Tommy Kaplan, Ying Liu, Naomi Habib, Aviv Regev, Nir Friedman and Erin K. O'Shea Structure and Function of a Transcriptional Network Activated by the MAPK Hog1 Nature Genetics, 2008, 40:1300-6 [ Abstract | Supp. information | Supp. webpage | ChIP-chip Peak Fitting Algorithm | F1000 | NBT's news and views ] |
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Micheal F Dion*, Tommy Kaplan*, Minkyu Kim, Stephen Buratowski, Nir Friedman, and Oliver J. Rando Dynamics of Replication-Independent Histone Turnover in Budding Yeast Science, 2007, 315(5817):1405-8 [ Abstract | SOM | Data | Poster | F1000 ] |
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Chih Long Liu*, Tommy Kaplan*, Minkyu Kim, Stephen Buratowski, Stuart L. Schreiber, Nir Friedman, and Oliver J. Rando Single-Nucleosome Mapping of Histone Modifications in S. cerevisiae PLoS Biology, 2005, 3(10):e328 [ Interactive Map | Data | F1000 ] |
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Tommy Kaplan, Nir Friedman and Hanah Margalit ab initio Prediction of Transcription Factor Targets using Structural Knowledge PLoS Comp. Biol., 2005, 1(1):e1 |
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Yoseph Barash, Gal Elidan, Nir Friedman, and Tommy Kaplan Modeling Dependencies in Protein-DNA Binding Sites Proc 7th Ann Int Conf in Comp Mol Bio (RECOMB), 2003 |
A full list of publications could be found in my CV below, or using PubMed.
Member, I-CORE center for Gene Regulation in Complex Human Diseases (1st wave center, Headed by Prof. Howard Cedar)
Member, I-CORE center for Chromatin and RNA in Gene Regulation (2nd wave center, Headed by Prof. Nir Friedman)
Regional Winner of the 2009 GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists
[Winning essay: From DNA Sequence to Chromatin State and Dynamics |
Haaretz
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HUJI PR]
