NCBI logo Computational Biology Branch
PubMed Entrez BLAST OMIM Books TaxBrowser Structure
  Search for

NCBI
back to NCBI homepage
back to NCBI homepage
SITE MAP

Seminar schedule

Postdoctoral fellow's Web pages

Senior Investigators in PubMed

BACK

spacer gif

Leila Taher
Visiting Fellow
NCBI, NLM, NIH
Building 38A, Room S614L
8600 Rockville Pike
Bethesda, MD 20894

Tel: 301-594-2274
E-mail: taherl_AT_ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Curriculum:
  • January 2008 - present: Visiting Fellow at CBB/NCBI.
  • April 2006 - December 2008: Postdoctoral Fellow at CONICET / Fundación Miguel Lillo (Argentina).
  • January 2002 - March 2006: Ph.D. at Universität Bielefeld (Germany).
Research Interests:
  • Comparative genomics and evolution;
  • Semantics of the gene regulatory code;
  • Phylogenetic analysis;
  • Modeling of biological systems; and
  • Computational Linguistics.

Publications:
  • L. Taher and P. Goloboff. Phylogenetic Analysis in Conflicting Cases. In preparation.
  • P. Goloboff, M.J. Sanderson, M.M. McMahon, and L.M. Taher. Tree-searches, consensus, and support calculations in large ambiguous datasets. In preparation.
  • D. Casagranda and L. Taher. Elementos bióticos, endemicidad y parsimonia: Estudio de casos de distribuciones hipotéticas. Darwiniana, 45(Suplemento):37-39, 2007. (in Spanish)
  • C. Szumik, S. Nomdedeu, A. Panizza, L. Aagesen, D. Casagranda, F. Navarro, J.M. Díaz Gómez, M. Sandoval, D. Baldo, G. San Blas, F. Cuezzo, L. Taher, P. Goloboff, M. Lizarralde, and F. Zuloaga. Biogeografía del norte argentino (paralelos 21 a 32): primer ensayo utilizando vertebrados, insectos y plantas. Darwiniana, 45(Suplemento):49-51, 2007. (in Spanish)
  • L. Taher, P. Meinicke, and B. Morgenstern. On splice site prediction using weight array models: a comparison of smoothing techniques. Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 90(1):012004+, 2007.
  • L. Taher, O. Rinner, S. Garg, A. Sczyrba, and B. Morgenstern. Agenda: gene prediction by cross-species sequence comparison. Nucleic Acids Res, 32(Web Server issue):305-308, Jul 2004.
  • L. Taher, O. Rinner, S. Garg, A. Sczyrba, M. Brudno, S. Batzoglou, and B. Morgenstern. Agenda: homology-based gene prediction. Bioinformatics, 19(12):1575-1577, Aug 2003.
  • L. Taher, O. Iribarren, and D. Marqués. Fractionation of dextran by precipitation: A simplified model for preliminary design. In Proceedings of the III Congreso de Ingeniería de Procesos del MERCOSUR (EMPROMER 2001), Santa Fe, Argentina, 2001.
  • L. Taher, O. Iribarren, and D. Marqués. Fractionation of dextran by precipitation: A simplified model for preliminary design. In V Simposio Argentino de polímeros SAP, I Simposio Binacional de polímeros Argentino-Chileno (ARCHIPOL 2001), Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2001.
Books:
  • K. Prank, M. Höchsmann, B. Oleson, T. Schmidt, L. Taher, D. Whitehead, J. Borlak (ed.). Handbook of Toxicogenomics: Strategies and Applications 13: Systems Biology Applied to Toxicogenomics John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
Posters:
  • L. Taher, B. Morgenstern, and P. Meinicke. Splice site prediction using svm with the oligo kernel. In ECCB 2004, Poster Proceedings, 2004.
  • L. Taher, B. Morgenstern, and P. Meinicke. The importance of window length in splice site prediction. In ECCB 2003, Poster Proceedings, 2003.
  • L. Taher, O. Rinner, S. Garg, M. Brudno, S. Batzoglou, and B. Morgenstern. Agenda: A www server for gene recognition by comparative sequence analysis. In Thomas Lengauer, Hans-Peter Lenhof, Ruth Christmann (editors), European Conference on Computational Biology 2002. Poster Abstracts, pages 236-238, 2002.

 

Disclaimer      Privacy statement

Revised: March 11, 2008.