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		Elhanan Borenstein, Ph.D. Postdoctoral Fellow Stanford University (Marc Feldman Lab) and The Santa Fe Institute (with David Krakauer) 371 Serra Mall (Gilbert 116) Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-5020 Phone: (650) 724-3566, Fax: (650) 725-8244 Click here to download my full resume (pdf, doc).

Publications

Journal Papers

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Marcus W. Feldman Topological signatures of species interactions in metabolic networks. Journal of Computational Biology, in press.

»	Elhanan Borenstein and David C. Krakauer An end to endless forms: Epistasis, phenotype distribution bias, and non-uniform evolution. PLoS Computational Biology, 4(10), 2008. (pdf)

	(featured in Nature Reviews Genetics, 9(12), 2008 - see Modelling the evolutionarily possible)

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Martin Kupiec, Marcus W. Feldman and Eytan Ruppin Large-scale reconstruction and phylogenetic analysis of metabolic environments. PNAS (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA), 105(38), 14482-14487, 2008. (pdf, Supp. Info.)

	(featured in Genome Biology, 9:239, 2008 - see Network-based approaches for linking metabolism with environment)

»	Laurent Lehmann, Kevin R. Foster, Elhanan Borenstein and Marcus W. Feldman Social and individual learning of helping in humans and other species. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 23(12), 664-671, 2008. (pdf)

»	Kreimer Anat, Elhanan Borenstein, Uri Gophna and Eytan Ruppin (equal contribution) The evolution of modularity in bacterial metabolic networks.* PNAS (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA), 105(19), 6976-6981, 2008. (pdf, Supp. Info., Dataset 1)

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Marcus W. Feldman and Kenichi Aoki Evolution of learning in fluctuating environments: When selection favors both individual and social learning . Evolution, 62(3), 586-602, 2008. (pdf)

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Tomer Shlomi, Eytan Ruppin and Roded Sharan (equal contribution) Gene loss rate: A probabilistic measure for the conservation of Eukaryotic genes.* Nucleic Acids Research, 35(1), e7, 2007. (pdf, Supp. Info.)

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Eytan Ruppin Direct evolution of genetic robustness in microRNA. PNAS (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA), 103(17), 6593-6598, 2006. (pdf, Supp. Info.)

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin The effect of phenotypic plasticity on evolution in multipeaked fitness landscapes. Journal of Evolutionary Biology, 19(5), 1555-1570, 2006. (pdf, Supp. Info.)

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Jeremy Kendal and Marcus W. Feldman Cultural niche construction in a metapopulation. Theoretical Population Biology, 70(1), 92-104, 2006 (pdf)

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Eytan Ruppin The evolution of imitation and mirror neurons in adaptive agents. Cognitive Systems Research (special issue on Epigenetic Robotics), 6(3), 229-242, 2005. (pdf)

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Eytan Ruppin The evolutionary link between mirror neurons and imitation: An evolutionary adaptive agents model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28:2, 127-128, 2005. (html,pdf)

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Eytan Ruppin Enhancing autonomous agents evolution with learning by imitation (extended version). Journal of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISBJ), 1(4), 335-347, 2003. (pdf)


Peer Reviewed Conference Papers

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Martin Kupiec, Marcus Feldman and Eytan Ruppin Large-scale phylogenetic analysis of inferred metabolic growth environments and the evolution of metabolic networks. Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2008), 2008

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Martin Kupiec, Marcus Feldman and Eytan Ruppin Large-scale reconstruction and analysis of growth environments. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Systems Biology (ICSB 2007), 2007. Plenary talk.

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Eytan Ruppin Evolving imitating agents and the emergence of a neural mirror system. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (ALIFE9), 2004, MIT Press. (pdf)

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Eytan Ruppin Enhancing autonomous agents evolution with learning by imitation. Proceedings of the AISB 2003 Convention: Cognition in Machines and Animals, Aberystwyth, Wales, April 2003. (pdf)


PhD Dissertation

»	Elhanan Borenstein Evolutionary Dynamics of Adaptive Populations: The Effect of Phenotypic Plasticity, Imitation and Culture on Evolution.




Conference Abstracts, Posters and Presentations

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Martin Kupiec, Marcus Feldman and Eytan Ruppin The evolution of growth environments as inferred from large-scale metabolic networks data. CSHL/WT Meeting on Functional Genomics and Systems Biology, October 2007.

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Eytan Ruppin and Marcus Feldman Using an information theory based approach to detect the phyletic ancestor in noisy data. Life Sciences Society Computational Systems Bioinformatics Conference (CSB2007), August 2007.

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Jeremy Kendal and Marcus Feldman Explaining the variance in the onset of demographic transitions: The metapopulation cultural niche construction model. The Center for Complexity Science Meeting, April 2005, Tel-Aviv University.

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Eytan Ruppin The evolution of genetic robustness: A case study. The Center for Complexity Science Meeting, April 2005, Tel-Aviv University.

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin Learning decreases drawdowns in the fitness landscape and accelerates evolution. The Winter School in Theoretical Physics on “Biological Networks and Evolution”, The Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, January 2005.

»	Elhanan Borenstein and Erin Cline Cellular automata model of cystogenesis and tubulogenesis. Proceedings of the Santa-Fe Institute Complex Systems Summer School, June 2004. (pdf)

»	Elhanan Borenstein, Isaac Meilijson and Eytan Ruppin Evolution, learning and imitation. The Third Complexity International Conference, Jerusalem, December 2003.




Invited Talks and Seminars

»	Evolution of Learning in Fluctuating Environments. Santa-Fe Institute, (Workshop on "The Role of Variation in Cultural Change"), April 2008.

»	Large-Scale Analysis of Metabolic Seed Compounds and the Evolution of Metabolic Networks. Santa-Fe Institute, July 2007.

»	Direct Evolution of Genetic Robustness in MicroRNA. Ben-Gurion University, Department of Computer Science (Barash Group), November 2006.

»	Mutational Robustness. Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Biological Chemistry (Tawfik Group), June 2006.

»	Adaptive evolution of mutational robustness: Moving towards staying put. Camp Evolution II: Evolutionary and Ecological Genomics. Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, April 2006.