Mikhail Gelfand Explained

Mikhail Gelfand
Birth Date:	1963 10, df=yes
Birth Place:	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship:	Soviet Union, Russian Federation
Field:	Bioinformatics, molecular biology
Workplaces:	Russian Academy of Sciences Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Higher School of Economics
Alma Mater:	MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Doctoral Advisor:	Simon Gindikin^[1]

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Гельфанд; born 25 October 1963) is a Russian Bioinformaticist and molecular biologist.^[2] He is a member of Academia Europaea, Vice President Biomedical Research of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,^[3] one of the founder of Dissernet plagiarism fighting society^[4] and a political activist, former member of Russian Opposition Coordination Council. He is a grandson of a prominent Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.^[5]

Some works by Mikhail Gelfand

• Gelfand M. S. Statistical analysis of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing sites // Nucleic Acids Research. 1989. V. 17. N. 15. 6369–6382.
• Gelfand M. S. Computer prediction of the exon-intron structure of mammalian pre-mRNAs // Nucleic Acids Research. 1990. Y. 18. N. 19. P. 5865–5869.
• Gelfand M. S. Statistical analysis and prediction of the exonic structure of human genes // Journal of Molecular Evolution. 1992. Y. 35. N. 2. P. 239–252.
• Gelfand M. S. Genetic language: metaphore or analogy // BioSystems. 1993. V. 30. P. 277—288
• Pevzner Р. А., Gelfand M. S., eds. Computer Genetics. A special issue on computational molecular biology // BioSystems. 1993. V. 30.
• Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Pevzner P. A. Spliced alignment: a new approach to gene recognition // Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1996. V. 1075. P. 141–158.
• Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Pevzner P. A. Gene recognition via spliced sequence alignment // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 1996. V. 93. P. 9061–9066.
• Gelfand M. S., Koonin E. V. Avoidance of palindromic words in bacterial and archaeal genomes: a close connection with restriction enzymes // Nucleic Acids Research. 1997. V. 27. P. 2430–2439.
• Sze S.-H, Roytberg М. А., Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Astakhova T. V., Pevzner P. A. Algorithms and software for support of gene identification experiments // Bioinformatics
• Mironov A. A., Roytberg M. A., Pevzner P. A., Gelfand M. S. Performance guarantee gene predictions via spliced alignment // Genomics

Awards and honors

In 2022, Gelfand was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.^[6]

External links

• Gelfand publications on Зubmed
• Popular science videos by Gelfand on Youtube

Notes and References

1. Gelfand . Mikhail . 1993 . Предсказание сайтов сплайсинга и белок-кодирующих областей в ДНК высших эукариот . PhD . 2 . Moscow State University . 8 June 2024.
2. Web site: Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand .
3. Web site: Mikhail Gelfand . Skoltech.
4. Web site: About dissernet .
5. Web site: Лекция Михаила Гельфанда о молекулярной эволюции . Polit.ru.
6. Web site: April 28, 2022: ISCB Congratulates and Introduces the 2022 Class of Fellows! . www.iscb.org . 17 June 2022.