Ilona Kifer


Email:  ilonak at post.tau.ac.il
Office Tel: 972-3-640-5395
Office Fax: 972-3-640-6476
FACULTY OF EXACT SCIENCES
SCHOOL OF COMPUTER SCIENCES
Tel Aviv University
Tel Aviv 69978, Israel

I am a PhD student at the Structural Bioinformatics lab at Tel Aviv University.
My advisors are Prof. Haim Wolfson and Prof. Ruth Nussinov

Projects

1. Protein Structure Prediction based on a Building Blocks assembly approach
    FOBIA - FOlding By hIerarchical Assembly
 
2. Fast and Accurate global protein structure superimposition
    GOSSIP - GlObal Structure SuperImposition of Proteins
    Supplementary Information
 

Publications

Gossip: A method for fast and accurate global alignment of protein structures
Ilona Kifer, Ruth Nussinov, Haim J. Wolfson
Accepted to Bioinformatics (2011)

Protein Structure Prediction using a Docking-based Hierarchical Folding scheme
Ilona Kifer, Ruth Nussinov, Haim J. Wolfson
Accepted to PROTEINS (2011)

Constructing templates for protein structure prediction by simulation of protein folding pathways
Ilona Kifer, Ruth Nussinov, Haim J. Wolfson
PROTEINS (2008) 73(2), pp. 380-394

Predicting fold novelty based on ProtoNet hierarchical classification
Kifer I, Sasson O, Linial M
Bioinformatics (2005) 21(7), pp. 1020-1027

Selecting targets for structural determination by navigating in a graph of protein families
Portugaly E, Kifer I, Linial M
Bioinformatics (2002) 18(7), pp. 899-907
 

Teaching

2005-6 academic year:
     Spring Semester: Introduction to Computer Science and Java (Open University)  

2006-7 academic year:
     Autumn Semester: C programming for engineering  
     Spring Semester: C programming for engineering  

2007-8 academic year:
     Autumn Semester: C programming for engineering  
     Spring Semester: C programming for engineering  

2008-9 academic year:
     Spring Semester: C programming for engineering  

2009-10 academic year:
     Autumn Semester: C programming for engineering (access through Virtual TAU)  
     Spring Semester: C programming for engineering(access through Virtual TAU)
Structural Bioinformatics (access through Virtual TAU)