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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.