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Dan Graur
University of HoustonDepartment: Department of Biology & BiochemistryAddress: Department of Biology & Biochemistry 352 S&R Bldg II 4800 Calhoun University of Houston Houston, TX 77204-5001 Phone: 713-743-7236; (lab) 713-743-2312 Fax: 713-743-2636 Email: dgraur@uh.edu Web: nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur |
Education
B.Sc. Biology, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel (1978)
M.Sc. Zoology, Tel Aviv Univ., Israel (1980)
Ph.D., Genetics, University of Texas (1985)
Honors
Research Topic
Biology and Biochemistry
Research Description
Molecular Evolution; Bioinformatics, Phylogenetics; Structural Patterns of Protein Evolution; Patterns of Pseudogene Evolution; Detection and Quantification of Selection; Compositional Evolution of Genomes; Societal Aspects of Genetics
Selected Publications
- Sorek, R., Ast, G., and Graur, D. (2002). Alu-containing exons are alternatively spliced. Genome Res. 12: 1060-1067.
- Pupko, T., Pe’er, I., Hasegawa, M., Graur, D., and Friedman, N. (2002). A branch-and-bound algorithm for the inference of ancestral amino-acid sequences when the replacement rate varies among sites: Application to the evolution of five gene families. Bioinformatics 18: 1116-1123.
- Hazkani-Covo, E., Sorek, R., and Graur, D. (2003). Evolutionary dynamics of large numts in the human genome: Rarity of independent insertions and abundance of post-insertion duplications. J. Mol. Evol. 56: 169-174.
- Pupko, T., Sharan, R., Hasegawa, M., Shamir, R., and Graur, D. (2003). Detecting excess radical replacements in phylogenetic trees. Gene 319: 127-135.
- Cohen, N., Dagan, T., Stone, S., and Graur, D. (2005). GC Composition of the human genome: In search of isochores. Mol. Biol. Evol. 22: 1260-1272.
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Last edited on: September 21, 2009