Evolution of bacterial genomes

Mikhail Gelfand is a Professor in the Center of Life Sciences in the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology, Moscow, Russia. Dr. Gelfand is a well-established bioinformatics specialist in the international scientific community. His research encompasses comparative genomics, systems biology, molecular evolution, transcriptomics and metagenomics. Currently he is studying co-evolution of transcription factors and their recognition sites, microevolution of bacterial genomes on the strain level, evolution of alternative splicing, three-dimensional structure of chromatin and epigenetics. Comparative analysis of bacterial genomes yields numerous functional annotations of novel enzymes, transporters, and transcription factors ; understanding of general principles of evolution of bacterial genomes and regulatory networks. Dr. Gelfand published the results of his research in major international scientific journals, such as Genome Research, Molecular Cell, Nature Communications, Molecular Systems Biology, Genome Biology, Trends in Genetics, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Nucleic Acids Research, PLoS Genetics.