Manolis Kellis (Kamvysselis)
manoli@mit.edu

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RECOMB Regulatory
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6.881 Computational Personal Genomics

29 mammals in Nature
News: CSAIL - Broad

Olfactory epigenetics

3 papers in Nature on 3/23

Chromatin Dynamics in Human
(News release)

modENCODE paper in Science

Phylogenomics paper in MBE

Chromatin states paper in Nature Biotech

6.047/6.878 Computational Biology:
Genomes, Networks, Evolution
(now with audio track for each lecture)


RECOMB Regulatory Genomics 2010

Positions available


Manolis Kellis, Ph.D.
Associate Professor with tenure
MIT Computer Science and Electrical Engineering Department

MIT Computational Biology Group, head
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
Stata Center - 32D.524 - 617.253.2419 (contact)

AIT Niki Award for Science and Engineering, 2011
Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE), 2010
Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award, 2009
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Award, 2008
National Science Foundation Career Award, 2007
Karl Van Tassel Career Development Chair, 2007
Technology Review Top Young Innovators, 2006
Distinguished Alumnus (1964) Career Development Chair, 2005
MIT Sprowls Award for Best PhD Thesis in Computer Science, 2004

Our group at MIT aims to further our understanding of the human genome by computational integration of large-scale functional and comparative genomics datasets. (1) We use comparative genomics of multiple related species to recognize evolutionary signatures of protein-coding genes, RNA structures, microRNAs, regulatory motifs, and individual regulatory elements. (2) We use combinations of epigenetic modifications to define chromatin states associated with distinct functions, including promoter, enhancer, transcribed, and repressed regions, each with distinct functional properties. (3) We use dynamics of functional elements across many cell types to link regulatory regions to their target genes, predict activators and repressors, and cell type specific regulatory action. (4) We combine these evolutionary, chromatin, and activity signatures to dramatically expand the annotation of the non-coding genome, elucidate the regulatory circuitry of the human and fly genomes, and to revisit previously uncharacterized disease-associated variants, providing mechanistic insights into their likely molecular roles.

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NIH.R01 - Motif discovery in human
NSF.CAREER - Comparative genomics
NIH.RC2 - modENCODE data integration
NIH.RC1 - Epigenome integrative analysis
ENCODE - Chromatin marks in human
cisreg - TFs and Chromatin in Fly
NIH.RC1 - smallRNAs and Chromatin
GENCODE - Gene identification in human
NSF.TreeOfLife - Phylogenomics
Publications - all - grouped - Genome Papers - Regulatory RNAs - Genes - Chromatin
Regulatory Motifs - Bio Networks - Evolution - Phylogenomics
Algorithms - Geometry/Vision - Robotics/AI - Editorials - Pubmed - Scholar - Citations.
Teaching - 6.881 Computational Personal Genomics
6.047|6.878 CompBio: Genomes, Networks, Evolution
6.046 Intro to Algorithms
6.096 Algorithms for Computational Biology
HST.480 Bioinformatics and Proteomics
Press - My research in the news - Google News Archive
12flies - 4yeasts - human - duplication - Interviews - old
Resume - Biosketch - Research Aims - Students - Publications - Contact
Affiliations - EECS CSAIL Broad CSBi
 Personal
Me - The story of my life
Trips - A few words on quite a few trips
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Old Gallery - All 10253 pics in one page
 Computational Biology - Selected Publications
 Comparative Genomics  and  Integrative Genomics
29 mammals - A high-resolution map of evolutionary constraint in the human genome
modENCODE - Functional elements and regulatory circuits in fly
12flies - Evolutionary signatures for systematic genome interpretation in fly
HaploReg - Interpreting disease-associated SNPs in the human genome
4yeasts - Gene identification and motif discovery in yeast
8candida - Revealing pathogenic gene families in fungal genomes
Other - Dog - Neurospora - Drosophila - Platypus - modENCODE - ENCODE - Errors - Schizo
 Epigenomics and Chromatin regulation
ChromHMM - Automating chromatin-state discovery and characterization
Chromatin Dynamics - Human chromatin state dynamics, enhancer networks, and disease
Chromatin States - Combinatorial chromatin patterns for genome annotation
Chromatin Regulators - From chromatin states to chromatin regulators using ChIP-string
Smell neurons - Epigenetic signature of monoallelic expression in olfactory neurons
Fly landscape - Chromatin landscape of Drosophila genes and regulatory elements
Human Enhancers - Tissue-specific enhancers in multiple human cell types
Fly Insulators - Genome-wide map of fly boundary elements
Other - Stalling - Embryo - Yeast - Roadmap - GATA
Gene and Genome Evolution
DupLossCoal - Joint modeling of gene duplication, loss, and incomplete lineage sorting
Phylogenomics - Bayesian gene-tree phylogenomic reconstruction
Phylogeny - Learning common gene-tree properties to overcome sparse information
Sub-gene - Domain-level evolution reveals abundant gene fusion and fission events
Innovation - Three periods of regulatory innovation in vertebrate evolution
Duplication - Proof and analysis of Whole-Genome Duplication (WGD) in yeast
Other - FishDup - FlyEvo - Platypus - Candida - Birds
 Protein-coding genes
Readthrough - Evidence of abundant stop codon readthrough in animal genomes
Overlapping - Excess synonymous constraint in 10,000 protein-coding exons in human
PhyloCSF - Phylogenetic evidence of protein-coding evolutionary signatures
Drosophila - Revisiting fly genome: new genes and exons, unusual gene structures
Signatures - Comparing evolutionary and single-species metrics
Other - Revisiting Human and Yeast - CCDS - MassSpec
 Regulatory non-coding RNAs
RNAshape - RNA folding with soft constraints integrating experimental evidence
lincRNAs - Chromatin reveals a new class of long intergenic non-coding RNAs
RNA families - Structural RNA families in the human genome
AS-miRNAs - Discovery of a new class of anti-sense functional microRNAs
microRNAs - Comparative identification of microRNAs in fly
Other - endo-siRNAs - miR-targets - piRNAs - platypus - cancer lncRNAs - Tasmanian
 Regulatory Motifs
Parallel Assays - Massively parallel dissection of human enhancers
Fly CisReg - A cis-regulatory map of the Drosophila genome
Human Motifs - De novo TF/miRNA motif discovery in human
Long motifs - New class of long motifs in human CNEs, including insulators
PSSMs - Position-specific constraints match motif information content
Heart Beat - Motif discovery in cardiogram datasets to predict heart failure
Other - Yeast Motifs - Motif Pairs
 Regulatory Networks
Network Inference - Integrative inference of regulatory networks
Motif Targets - Using motifs to infer regulatory networks in fly
Network Motifs - Discovering large motifs using symmetry-breaking conditions
SubMAP - Aligning large pathways with subnetwork mapping
Network Evol - Post whole-genome duplication (WGD) network evolution
Other research (AI, vision, graphics)
PhD Thesis - Received Sprowls award for best PhD thesis in CS
Masters Thesis - Imagina: Sketch-based image retrieval (applets)
Crust - 3D surface reconstruction (more info)
3D Morphing - Polygon-based 3D model morphing
ECI Morph - Gaussian morphing 2D convex shapes
Chars - Character Recognition in Curvature Space
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