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Tamir Tuller

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Tamir Tuller
Tuller in 2021
Known forComputational Synthetic Biology
AwardsJuludan Research Prize (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsSystems Biology, Synthetic Biology, Computer Science
InstitutionsTel Aviv University

Tamir Tuller is an Israeli engineer, a computer scientist, and a systems and synthetic biologist. He is a professor, incumbent of the Chair in Computational Synthetic Biology, and the director of Tel Aviv University's Laboratory of Computational Systems and Synthetic Biology.[1] As of February 2022, Tuller has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and hundreds of additional types of publications and patents.[2][3] In addition, he is the founder and primary instructor of the International Genetically Engineered Machine program at Tel Aviv University and an entrepreneur.[4][5]

Research and career

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Tuller is presently a Full Professor at the Tel-Aviv University in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Edmond J. Safra centre for Bioinformatics.[6] Prior to obtaining his current position, he also was an engineer at DSP group in VLSI chip design. He served as the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Synvaccine Ltd, and Imagindairy Ltd and as a consultant to various additional biotech companies.[7]

Awards and honors

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Tuller received the Juludan Research Prize from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology in 2016.[8]

Publications

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As of February 2022, Tuller has authored over 150 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and hundreds of additional types of publications and patents.

  • Accelerating Whole-Cell Simulations of mRNA Translation Using a Dedicated Hardware.[9]
  • Estimating the predictive power of silent mutations on cancer classification and prognosis.[10]
  • Algorithms for ribosome traffic engineering and their potential in improving host cells' titer and growth rate.[11]
  • High-resolution modeling of the selection on local mRNA folding strength in coding sequences across the Tree of Life.[12]
  • Solving the riddle of the evolution of Shine-Dalgarno based translation in chloroplasts.[13]
  • Novel Insights into Gene Expression Regulation during Meiosis Revealed by Translation Elongation Dynamics.[14]
  • ChimeraUGEM: unsupervised gene expression modeling in any given organism.[15]

References

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  1. ^ "Tamir Tuller's Home Page". www.cs.tau.ac.il. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  2. ^ "Tamir Tuller | Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv | TAU". ResearchGate. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  3. ^ "Tamir Tuller". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  4. ^ "Team:TAU Israel/Team - 2019.igem.org". 2019.igem.org. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  5. ^ "Team:TAU Israel/Instructors - 2020.igem.org". 2020.igem.org. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  6. ^ "About". imagindairy. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  7. ^ "Meet The Team". synvaccine. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  8. ^ "Juludan Research Prize Winners 2016 â€" Executive Vice President for Research". manlam.net.technion.ac.il. Retrieved 2022-01-26.
  9. ^ Shallom, David; Naiger, Danny; Weiss, Shlomo; Tuller, Tamir (2021-12-17). "Accelerating Whole-Cell Simulations of mRNA Translation Using a Dedicated Hardware". ACS Synthetic Biology. 10 (12): 3489–3506. doi:10.1021/acssynbio.1c00415. PMC 8689694. PMID 34813269.
  10. ^ Gutman, Tal; Goren, Guy; Efroni, Omri; Tuller, Tamir (2021-08-12). "Estimating the predictive power of silent mutations on cancer classification and prognosis". npj Genomic Medicine. 6 (1): 67. doi:10.1038/s41525-021-00229-1. ISSN 2056-7944. PMC 8361094. PMID 34385450. S2CID 236993782.
  11. ^ Zur, Hadas; Cohen-Kupiec, Rachel; Vinokour, Sophie; Tuller, Tamir (2020-12-03). "Algorithms for ribosome traffic engineering and their potential in improving host cells' titer and growth rate". Scientific Reports. 10 (1): 21202. Bibcode:2020NatSR..1021202Z. doi:10.1038/s41598-020-78260-y. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 7713304. PMID 33273552.
  12. ^ Peeri, Michael; Tuller, Tamir (2020-03-09). "High-resolution modeling of the selection on local mRNA folding strength in coding sequences across the tree of life". Genome Biology. 21 (1): 63. doi:10.1186/s13059-020-01971-y. ISSN 1474-760X. PMC 7063772. PMID 32151272.
  13. ^ Weiner, Iddo; Shahar, Noam; Marco, Pini; Yacoby, Iftach; Tuller, Tamir (2019-12-01). "Solving the Riddle of the Evolution of Shine-Dalgarno Based Translation in Chloroplasts". Molecular Biology and Evolution. 36 (12): 2854–2860. doi:10.1093/molbev/msz210. ISSN 0737-4038. PMID 31503284.
  14. ^ Sabi, Renana; Tuller, Tamir (2019-04-04). "Novel insights into gene expression regulation during meiosis revealed by translation elongation dynamics". npj Systems Biology and Applications. 5 (1): 12. doi:10.1038/s41540-019-0089-0. ISSN 2056-7189. PMC 6449359. PMID 30962948.
  15. ^ Diament, Alon; Weiner, Iddo; Shahar, Noam; Landman, Shira; Feldman, Yael; Atar, Shimshi; Avitan, Meital; Schweitzer, Shira; Yacoby, Iftach; Tuller, Tamir (2019-09-15). "ChimeraUGEM: unsupervised gene expression modeling in any given organism". Bioinformatics. 35 (18): 3365–3371. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btz080. ISSN 1367-4803. PMID 30715207.
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