Education

• Weill Cornell/Rockefeller/Sloan-Kettering, 2011-Present

  M.D.-Ph.D. (MSTP) candidate

• Columbia University, 2010

  B.A. Biology
  B.A. Philosophy

• Chicagoland Jewish High School, 2006

Awards and Recognition

• Adam Leroy Jones Prize in Logic. Columbia University, 2010
• Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize in the History of Science. Columbia University, 2010
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). Columbia University, 2007
• Dean’s List. Columbia University. Fall 2007 – Spring 2008, Spring 2010

Research Groups

• Research Assistant @ Alexander Tarakhovsky's Lab, MD PhD | 2010-Current
  • Bioinformatic analysis of RNA-Seq and ChIP-Seq experiments.
• Research Assistant @ Lawrence Chasin's Lab, PhD | 2007-2010
  • Investigated the regulation of mRNA splicing.
• Research Assistant @ Richard Carthew's Lab, PhD | Summer 2008
  • Identified possible mRNA targets of species-specific miRNAs with an eye as to how they might act in phenotypic canalization.
  • Developed a computational approach for combining the results of miRNA target prediction programs to detect target conservation across orthologous genes. Assisted with a similar analysis of miRNA miR-7 targets across orthologous genes for a Cell publication (Li X et al., 2009).
• Research Assistant @ Pablo Gejman's Lab, MD, under Maria M. Martinez | 2003-2006
  • Co-developed LSMatchMaker, one of the first software program to perform quality control, association analysis and empirical significance estimations of large-scale (genome-wide) association data.
  • Co-developed with John Otto.

Publications with Acknowledgements

These are publications where I have been acknowledged in the text

• Edwige Nicodeme, Kate L Jeffrey, Uwe Schaefer, Soren Beinke, Scott Dewell, Chun-wa Chung, Rohit Chandwani, Ivan Marazzi, Paul Wilson, Hervé Coste, Julia White, Jorge Kirilovsky, Charles M Rice, Jose M Lora, Rab K Prinjha, Kevin Lee, Alexander Tarakhovsky. (2010). Suppression of inflammation by a synthetic histone mimic. Nature 468, 1119–1123.

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• Shengdong Ke and Lawrence A Chasin. (2010). Intronic motif pairs cooperate across exons to promote pre-mRNA splicing. Genome Research 11:R84.

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• Xin Li, Justin J. Cassidy, Catherine A. Reinke, Stephen Fischboeck, and Richard W. Carthew. (2009). A MicroRNA Imparts Robustness against Environmental Fluctuation during Development. Cell 137, 273-282.

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• Shengdong Ke, Xiang H.-F. Zhang, and Lawrence A. Chasin. (2008). Positive selection acting on splicing motifs reflects compensatory evolution. Genome Research 18(4), 533-543.

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Posters

• R. S. Gejman, J. S. Otto, J. Duan, J. OConnell and M. Martinez. "LSMatchMaker: An Integrated Environment for Association Analysis." International Genetic Epidemiology Society Conference. Park City, Utah. 2005

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• J. S. Otto, R. S. Gejman, J. Duan, J. OConnell and M. Martinez. "LSMatchMaker: An Integrated Environment for Association Analysis." World Congress on Psychiatric Genetics XIII. Boston, Massachusetts. 2005.

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• R. S. Gejman, L. Chasin. "Silencing Pseudoexons: A Cis-Element Story." SURF Colloquium. Columbia University, NYC. 2008

Extracurricular Groups

• CULPA

  2011-Current, Alumni Advisor

  2008-2010, Administrator

• LionPAC

  2007-2008, Technology Coordinator

  2008-2009, Vice President

• Free Culture@Columbia

  2006-2008

Web Applications and Software

• Wetbook

  An electronic laboratory notebook aimed at molecular biologists. Ruby on Rails

• Synagogues

  The synagogue directory for the iPhone, iPod Touch and wandering Jew. Co-written with Jacob Andreas. Objective-C

• Columbia Underground Listing of Professor Ability (CULPA)

  CULPA is the only professor and course review website for Columbia University. Ruby on Rails; Originally PHP.

• LionPAC

  My Ruby on Rails version has been replaced with a Wordpress version. Credit goes to Ron Shapiro.

• Comic-Nation

  One of the earliest (if not the first) WebComic update trackers. Originally written in PHP; rewritten in Ruby on Rails.

• H-Grade

  Hebrew School report card generator. Contact me for school pricing. PHP

• LSMatchMaker

  Large-scale association analysis management software developed in collaboration with J. Otto. No longer maintained. Java

Social Media and Other Links

• rgejman@GitHub

  Several of my projects are hosted on GitHub

• rongejman@Twitter
• ron.gejman@StackOverflow

Languages

• Ruby (on Rails), Java, Perl, PHP, SQL, Objective-C, R, Bash Scripting
• Spanish (fluent; certified interpreter), Hebrew (conversational)

Tutoring

I teach PHP, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Perl, MySQL and Java in Manhattan (or elsewhere by phone). Referrals, example code and rates are available upon request.