Contact Information


Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School
New Research Building, Room 464A
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA 02115

Email: rgordan (at) rics.bwh.harvard.edu
Tel: (617) 525-4753
Fax: (617) 525-4705


Education

  • 2009: Ph.D., Department of Computer Science, Duke University, USA

  • 2008: Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Certificate, Institute of Genome Sciences & Policy, Duke University, Durham, USA

  • 2008: M.S., Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, USA

  • 2005: B.S., Computer Science, University of Iasi, Iasi, Romania

Publications

  1. Gordân,R., Hartemink,A.J., & Bulyk,M.L. (2009) “Distinguishing direct versus indirect transcription factor-DNA interactions.” Genome Research, Epub Aug 3, 2009.

  2. Gordân,R.*, Narlikar,L.*, & Hartemink,A. (2008) “A fast, alignment-free, conservation-based method for transcription factor binding site discovery.” Research in Computational Molecular Biology 2008 (RECOMB08). Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, eds. 4955, April 2008. pp. 98–111. (* equal contribution)

  3. Gordân,R. & Hartemink,A. (2008) “Using DNA Duplex Stability Information to Discover Transcription Factor Binding Sites.” Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2008 (PSB08), 13:453–464, January 2008.

  4. Narlikar,L.*, Gordân,R.*, & Hartemink,A. (2007) “A Nucleosome-Guided Map of Transcription Factor Binding Sites in Yeast.” PLoS Computational Biology, 3(11):e215, November 2007. (* equal contribution).

  5. Narlikar,L.*, Gordân,R.*, & Hartemink,A. (2007) “Nucleosome occupancy information improves de novo motif discovery.” Research in Computational Molecular Biology 2007 (RECOMB07). Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, eds. 4453, April 2007. pp. 107–121. (* equal contribution)

  6. Narlikar,L., Gordân,R., Ohler,U., & Hartemink,A. (2006) “Informative Priors Based on Transcription Factor Structural Class Improve de novo Motif Discovery.” Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology 2006 (ISMB06), Bioinformatics, 22, July 2006. pp. e384–e392. [Supp. Info.] [Code] [Input Data]

Work Experience

  • Currently: Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, working with Prof. Martha L. Bulyk

  • Summer 2009: Postdoctoral Fellow at Duke University, working with Prof. Alexander J. Hartemink

  • Spring 2006 - Spring 2009: Research Assistant at Duke University, working with Prof. Alexander J. Hartemink

  • Fall 2008: Teaching Assistant/co-Instructor at Duke University, Introduction to Computational Genomics (CPS 160)

  • Summer 2008: Research Assistant at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women's Hospital, working with Prof. Martha L. Bulyk

  • Spring 2007: Teaching Assistant at Duke University, Algorithms in Computational Biology (CPS 260/CBB 230)

  • Spring 2007 and Spring 2006: Teaching Assistant at Duke University, Introduction to Computational Genomics (CPS 160)

Awards

  • Conference travel awards: MLSS 2007, PSB 2008, RECOMB 2008, ISMB 2008

  • 2007–2008: Outstanding Masters Thesis ("Inferring protein-DNA interaction sites from in vivo and in vitro experimental data", under the supervision of Prof. Alexander J. Hartemink)

  • 2006–2007: Outstanding Research Initiation Project ("Incorporating multiple informative priors into a Gibbs sampling algorithm for de novo motif discovery", under the supervision of Prof. Alexander J. Hartemink)

  • 2006: Outstanding Teaching Assistantship Award (CPS 160: Introduction to Computational Genomics, Instructor: Alexander J. Hartemink)

Software

  • PRIORITY – a tool for de novo motif discovery in the context of transcription factor binding sites.