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Moran Yassour

Moran Yassour MSc, PhD

Bioinformatics
Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel

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Dr. Moran Yassour is an assistant professor at the Hebrew University with a joint affiliation at the school of Computer Science and Engineering. The Yassour lab studies the development of the infant microbiome in health and disease by developing new cohorts to study the establishment of the newborn gut microbiome and to characterize mother-to-child bacterial transmission. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Yassour lab also joined forces with Hadassah Medical Center to analyze hundreds of thousands of SARS-CoV-2 tests, showing how pooling approaches can increase diagnostic labs' efficiency.

Dr. Yassour did her postdoctoral training at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard University with Ramnik Xavier and Eric Lander, where she studied the human gut microbiome. During her Ph.D. in the Friedman (Hebrews) and Regev (MIT/Broad) labs, she developed tools to reconstruct the transcriptome of partially assembled genomes and aberrant cancer genomes (including Trinity, a commonly used de-novo RNA sequencing assembly tool). Dr. Yassour received her B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. in the Computer Science and Computational Biology program at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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