Ph.D. in 2008 in Molecular and Cell Biology with Michael Eisen
Comparative genomics in Drosophila
Currently Engineering Manager and Data Scientist, Facebook Inc.
Peterson BK, Hare EE, Iyer VN, Storage S, Conner L et al. (2009). Big genomes facilitate the comparative identification of regulatory elements.
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Hare EE, Peterson BK, Iyer VN, Meier R, Eisen MB (2008). Sepsid even-skipped enhancers are functionally conserved in Drosophila despite lack of sequence conservation.
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Li XY, MacArthur S, Bourgon R, Nix DA, Pollard DA et al. (2008). Transcription factors bind thousands of active and inactive regions in the Drosophila blastoderm.
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Clark AG, Eisen MB, Smith DR, Bergman CM, Oliver B et al. (2007). Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.
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Pollard DA, Iyer VN, Moses AM, Eisen MB (2006). Widespread discordance of gene trees with species tree in Drosophila: evidence for incomplete lineage sorting.
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Moses AM, Pollard DA, Nix DA, Iyer VN, Li XY et al. (2006). Large-scale turnover of functional transcription factor binding sites in Drosophila.
Journal PubMed PMC Software:CisEvolver
Pollard DA, Moses AM, Iyer VN, Eisen MB (2006). Detecting the limits of regulatory element conservation and divergence estimation using pairwise and multiple alignments.
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Moses AM, Chiang DY, Pollard DA, Iyer VN, Eisen MB (2004). MONKEY: identifying conserved transcription-factor binding sites in multiple alignments using a binding site-specific evolutionary model.
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