Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern,Ph.D.

E-mails: milana.frenkel "at" weizmann.ac.il, mmorgenstern "at" cnio.es

Postdoctoral Research Assistant
Structural Biology and BioComputing Programme

Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO)
Madrid, 28029
SPAIN


Scientific Coordinator
Davidson Institute of Scientific Education

Weizmann Institute of Science
Rehovot, 76100
ISRAEL


Art & Science exhibition Chair at the ISMB 2011 conference

Education
2001-2006 Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
1995-2000 M.Sc. & B.Sc., Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.   Honors: Summa Cum Laude

Positions
2009- Postdoctoral Research Assistant with Professor Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
2006-2009 Postdoctoral Fellow with Professors Uri Alon & Mark Safro, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2004- Scientific Coordinator and Lecturer, Davidson Institute of Education, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
1996-2001 Teaching Assistant (frontal), Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel

Selected Awards & Fellowships
2009-2011 Postdoctoral Fellowship - Caja Navarra INTERNATIONAL POSTDOCTORAL PROGRAMME, CNIO, Madrid, Spain
2007-2009 Postdoctoral Fellowship - The Center for Complexity Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
2005 Aharon Katzir Travel Fellowship for the Paper Talk at ECCB 2005, Madrid, Spain
2005 International Society of Computational Biology Travel Award, 2005
1997-2001 Bar-Ilan University Fellowship for the M.Sc. Students in Bioinformatics

Selected Publications
  • Frenkel-Morgenstern M,Cohen A, Geva-Zatorsky N, Eden E, Prilusky J, Issaeva I, Sigal A, Cohen-Saidon C, Liron Y, Cohen L, Danon T, Perzov N, Alon U, Dynamic Proteomics: a database for dynamics and localizations of endogenous fluorescently-tagged proteins in living human cells. Nucleic Acid Research. 2009 Oct 9.
  • Cohen A*, Geva-Zatorsky N*, Eden E*, Frenkel-Morgenstern M, Issaeva I, Sigal A, Milo R, Cohen-Saidon C, Liron Y, Kam Z, Cohen L, Danon T, Perzov N, Alon U, Dynamic proteomics of individual cancer cells in response to a drug, 2008 Science. *These authors contributed equally to this work.
  • Frenkel-Morgenstern M, Tworowski D, Klipcan L, Safro M. Intra-protein compensatory mutations analysis highlights the tRNA recognition regions in aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. J Biomol Struct Dyn. 2009 Oct;27(2):115-26.
  • Klipcan L, Frenkel-Morgenstern M, Safro MG, Presence of tRNA-dependent pathways correlates with high cysteine content in methanogenic Archaea. Trends Genet. 2008 Feb;24(2):59-63. Epub 2008 Jan 14. PMID: 18192060
  • Frenkel-Morgenstern M, Magid R, Eyal E, Pietrokovski S. Refining intra-protein contact prediction by graph analysis. BMC Bioinformatics. 2007 May 24;8 Suppl 5:S6. PMID: 17570865
  • Eyal E*, Frenkel-Morgenstern M*, Sobolev V, Pietrokovski S. A pair-to-pair amino acids substitution matrix and its applications for protein structure prediction. Proteins. 2007 Apr 1;67(1):142-53,*These authors contributed equally to this work. PMID: 17243158
  • Frenkel-Morgenstern M, Singer A, Bronfeld H, Pietrokovski S. One-Block CYRCA: an automated procedure for identifying multiple-block alignments from single block queries. Nucleic Acids Res. 2005 Jul 1;33(Web Server issue):W281-3. PMID: 15980470
  • Frenkel-Morgenstern M, Voet H, Pietrokovski S. Enhanced statistics for local alignment of multiple alignments improves prediction of protein function and structure. Bioinformatics. 2005 Jul 1;21(13):2950-6. Epub 2005 May 3. PMID: 15870168