Elhanan Borenstein, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor
Dept of Genome Sciences
University of Washington

3720 15th Ave NE
Foege Building, S103B
Box 355065
Seattle, WA 98195-5065

Phone: (206) 685-8165
Fax: (206) 685-7301




Adjunct Assistant Professor
Computer Science & Eng.
University of Washington

External Professor
Santa Fe Institute

Welcome to the Borenstein Lab
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» 9/13/2012:  Dr. Elhanan Borenstein has been awarded the 2012 NIH New Innovator Award. (UW Today, CSE News)
» 8/23/2012:  FermeFest 2012 lab event!
» 7/5/2012:  Max Press and Roie Levy both passed their general exams. Congratulations!
» 4/9/2012:  Our lab will be presenting 3 posters at the ISB conference on Systems Biology and the Microbiome.
» 4/5/2012:  The exome sequencing paper our lab collaborated on featured on The New York Times front page.
» 1/10/2012:  Our metagenomic systems biology PNAS paper is featured in UW Today.
» 12/28/2011:  Congratulation to Dr. Rogan Carr on the acceptance of his paper on NetSeed to Bioinformatics.
» 11/15/2011:  Congratulation to Sharon Greenblum on the acceptance of her paper to PNAS.
» 10/5/2011:  Dr. Elhanan Borenstein is the keynote speaker at the NIH 2011 Multiscale Modeling Meeting.
» 8/29/2011:  Hsuan-Chao Chiu joins the lab.
» 8/15/2011:  Rogan Carr joins the lab.
» 7/5/2011:  Sharon Greenblum passed the general exam with flying colors. Congratulations!
» 4/25/2011:  Dr. Elhanan Borenstein has been appointed as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
» 4/5/2011:  Roie Levy has been awarded the 2011 NSF Fellowships. Congratulations!
» 2/15/2011:  Dr. Elhanan Borenstein has been selected as a 2011 Sloan Research Fellow.
» 2/7/2011:  Two abstracts from the lab have been selected for an oral presentation at the 2011 International Human Microbiome Congress.
» 10/14/2010:  Our new cubicals are here. Finally.
» 6/21/2010:  Sharon Greenblum and Roie Levy join the lab.
The Borenstein lab focuses on computational research in Evolutionary Systems Biology - an emerging field that examines the interplay between the evolutionary process and the organization of complex biological systems. This is done primarily in the following research topics:
  1. Metabolic interactions, community structure and systems biology of the human microbiome.
  2. In silico models of microbial communities and computational analysis of metagenomic data.
  3. Large scale computational study of biological networks and their evolution.
  4. Modularity, robustness, evolvability, and assembly rules of complex biological systems.
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