Nizar Batada
Postdoctoral Fellow with George Church
Contact:
Department of Genetics, Ave. Loius Pasteur, 232 NRB, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115
(617) 432-5917
nbatada "at" genetics . med . harvard . edu
EDUCATION
PhD Stanford University, Biophysics, 2004
MS Caltech, Control and Dynamical Systems, 2000
BS Carleton University, Biochemistry, 1998
-- 2007 --
- Batada NN, Hurst LD (2007) Evolution of chromosome organization driven by selection for reduced gene expression noise. Nature Genetics 39(8):945
pdf
- Batada NN, Hurst LD (2007) Chromatin remodeling is a major source of coexpression of linked genes in yeast. Trends in Genetics Sept 4 pdf
- Batada NN et al (2007) Still stratus not altocumulus: further evidence against the date/party hub distinction. PLoS Biology 5(6):e154 pdf
-- 2006 --
- Batada NN, Hurst LD, Tyers M (2006) Stratus not altocumulus: a new view of the yeast protein interaction network. PLoS Biology 4(10):e317 pdf [data]
- Batada NN, Hurst LD, Tyers M (2006) Evolutionary and physiological importance of hub proteins.
PLoS Comp. Biol. 2(7):e88 pdf
- Reguly et al * (2006) Comprehensive curation and analysis of global interaction networks in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. J Biology 5:11
pdf (* co-first author)
-- 2004 --
- Batada NN, Shepp LA, Siegmund DO, Levitt M (2006) Spatial Regulation and the Rate of Signal Transduction Activation. PLoS Comp. Biol. 2(5):e44
pdf [matlab code]
- Batada NN,Westover KD, Bushnell DA, Levitt M, Kornberg RD (2004) Diffusion of nucleoside triphosphates and role of the entry site to the RNA polymerase II active center. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101(50):17361-4. pdf
- Batada NN, Shepp LA, Siegmund DO (2004) Stochastic model of protein-protein interaction: why signaling proteins need to be colocalized.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101(17):6445-9. pdf
FUNDING AND AWARDS
- 2005-2008 CIHR (Canadian Institute of Health and Research) Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 1998-2000 NSERC (Natural Science and Engineering Research Council) Predoctoral Fellowship
- 1998 Senate Medal, Carleton University
SOFTWARE
- JabRef: An open source bibliography reference manager
(I am one of the two original founders and developers of this software).