Meromit Singer's (née Schuster's) Homepage




I'm a graduate student in the CS department at UC Berkeley, privileged to be advised by Lior Pachter.

I am interested in practical and theoretical aspects of epigenetics on a genomewide scale.
Keywords: epigenomics, DNA methylation, algorithms, statistics, short-read sequencing.

This year I am supported by the 2009 Microsoft Research Women's Scholarship.
Before coming to Berkeley I received a BSc in Computer Science and Biology (double major) through the Bioinformatics program at Tel-Aviv University.
During that period I was fortunate to work with Eran Segal's research group at the Weizmann Institute and with Shaul Yalovsky's research group at Tel-Aviv University. 

You're welcome to contact me at:   meromit <at> cs.berkeley.edu

Also, I'm a frequent listener to talks on algorithmic mechanism design.


Publications

"Revealing genomewide methylation patterns from high-throughput sequencing by statistical inference"
Meromit Singer, Dario Boffelli, Joseph Dhahbi,  Gary P. Schroth, David I.K. Martin and Lior Pachter.
Submitted

“Nitrogen source interacts with ROP signaling in root hair tip-growth”
Daria Bloch, Gabriele Monshausen, Meromit Singer, Simon Gilroy and Shaul Yalovsky.
Submitted

"Monoubiquitinated H2B is associated with the transcribed region of highly expressed genes in human cells."
Neri Minsky, Efrat Shema, Yair Field, Meromit Schuster, Eran Segal and Moshe Oren
Nature Cell Biology (2008) 10(4):483 - 488

Posters

“Investigation of Sporadic Genetic Disease Using Deep Sequencing of Human Trio Transcriptomes”
Vincent L. Butty, Steffen Durinck, Shujun Luo, Irina Khrebtukova, Meromit Singer, Hugh Y. Rienhoff, Christopher B. Burge and Gary P. Schroth
Personal Genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, NY (September 2009).

“Inferring Genomewide Methylation Patterns from High-Throughput Sequencing”.
Meromit Singer, Dario Boffelli, Joseph Dhahbi, Gary P. Schroth, David I.K. Martin and Lior Pachter.
RECOMB 2009  - selected for oral presentation
The Biology of Genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, NY (May 2009).

“Phyloepigenomic Comparison of Human and Chimpanzee”
Meromit Singer, Lior Pachter, Joseph Dhahbi, Guanxiong Mao, Lu Zhang, Gary P. Schroth, David I.K. Martin and Dario Boffelli.
The Biology of Genomes meeting, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories, NY (May 2009).