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Noa Liscovitch – CV June 2013 Education: 2013 Course: Molecular Neuroanatomy, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Okinawa, Japan. 2012 Course: Statistical analysis of genomic data, Cold Spring Harbor Lab, Long Island, NY. 2009 Present Ph.D. (direct track) in Computational Neurobiology, Bar Ilan University. Advisor: Dr. Gal Chechik. Thesis: Using a molecular systems-biology approach to study vertebrate nervous system development. 2003-2006 B.Sc. in Biology (Summa Cum Laude), Tel Aviv University, the research program for excellent students of the Biology faculty. Awards and scholarships: 2013 ISCB, travel grant to attend ISMB/ECCB 2013. 2012 Israeli Society for Neuroscience meeting (ISFN), best poster award, for the work: "Dynamics of gene expression divergence during mammalian brain development follow an hourglass shape" 2012 American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), travel grant. 2010 Gonda Brain Research Center, best poster award at annual faculty meeting, for the work: "Gene expression diversity patterns during mouse brain development" 2009 - Present Bar Ilan University, Presidential scholarship for distinguished Ph.D. students. 2006 Tel Aviv University, B.Sc. in Biology, summa cum laude. 2005 Tel-Aviv University, Dr. Eliyahu Many scholarship for outstanding students. 2005 Dean’s excellence list. 2004 Dean’s excellence list. 2003-2006 The research program for excellent students of the Biology faculty, Tel-Aviv University. Three years merit-based scholarship and stipend. Teaching experience: 2010 – 2012 Bar Ilan University, Gonda brain research center, Teaching assistant in the graduate course "Scientific programming using MATLAB" 2009 – 2011 Bar Ilan University, Gonda brain research center, Teaching assistant in the graduate course "Signal and data analysis in Neuroscience" Journal publications: N. Liscovitch*, U. Shalit* and G. Chechik. FuncISH: Learning a functional representation of neural ISH images (In press, Bioinformatics). L. Kirsch, N. Liscovitch and G. Chechik. Localizing genes to brain layers using ISH image classification. (PLoS Computational Biology, 2012). N. Liscovitch and G. Chechik. Specialization of gene expression during mouse brain development. (In press, PLoS Computational Biology). Abstracts and conference presentations: N. Liscovitch*, U. Shalit* and G. Chechik. FuncISH: learning a functional representation of neural ISH images, Proceedings of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2013. N. Liscovitch*, U. Shalit* and G. Chechik. FuncISH: functionally representing neural ISH images using machine vision, Poster: Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium (IBS) 2013. N. Liscovitch and G. Chechik. Dynamics of gene expression divergence during mammalian brain development follow an 'hourglass' shape, Poster: Israeli Society for Neuroscience (ISFN) 2012. N. Liscovitch and G. Chechik. Exploring gene expression divergence patterns in the developing mouse brain, Poster: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2012. L. Kirsch, N. Liscovitch and G. Chechik. Localizing genes to brain layers using ISH image classification, Poster: Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2012. L. Kirsch, N. Liscovitch and G. Chechik. Automatic identification of brain-layer specific genes from ISH images, NIPS workshop on machine learning in computational biology (at NIPS) 2011.