Michal Linial is a Professor of Biochemistry and Bioinformatics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI).[3] Linial is the Director of The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology at HUJI.[4][5] Since 2015, she is head of the ELIXIR-Israel node (European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information).[6]

Michal Linial
Michal Linial speaking at the ISMB conference in Long Beach, California, in 2012
Education
AwardsISCB Fellow (2016)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Notable studentsRoy Varshavsky
WebsiteThe Michal Linial Lab

Linial was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2016, for outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics, and served on the Board of Directors (2005–2016), and as a Vice-President (2007–2016), of the ISCB.[1]

She was a Director at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) from 2012 to 2018.[6] She earned her BA from Tel Aviv University in 1979, her MA from UCLA in 1981, and her PhD in molecular biology from HUJI in 1986.[6] Linial completed her post-doctoral training at Stanford University in cellular neurochemistry.[3] She joined the faculty of HUJI in 1989, and she founded and has chaired since 1999, the educational program for computational biology in HUJI.[3]

Linial came to wider public prominence during the COVID-19 pandemic as her research and forecasts on the virus were carried in mainstream media.[7][8][9][10]

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  1. ^ a b Anon (2018). "ISCB Fellows". iscb.org. International Society for Computational Biology. Archived from the original on 2017-03-20. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  2. ^ "Prof. Michal Linial Is Appointed New Director Of The Israel Institute For Advanced Studies". CFHU.
  3. ^ a b c "Michal Linial". PeerJ. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Prof. Michal Linial - Director of The Sudarsky Center for Computational Biology. Computational biology, Sudarsky Center Bioinformatics MOLECULAR CELLULAR NEURON Protein classifications ProtoNet Science synapse genomics". www.ls.huji.ac.il.
  5. ^ Friedman, Nir; Linial, Michal; Nachman, Iftach; Pe'er, Dana (2000). "Using Bayesian Networks to Analyze Expression Data" (PDF). Journal of Computational Biology. 7 (3–4): 601–620. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.191.139. doi:10.1089/106652700750050961. ISSN 1066-5277. PMID 11108481.  
  6. ^ a b c "About Michal Linial". The Linial Lab, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  7. ^ Ronel, Asaf (19 March 2020). "Why coronavirus kills more men than-women". Haaretz. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  8. ^ Jeffay, Nathan (19 August 2020). "Century-old vaccine limits COVID spread, so bring it back, urge Israeli experts". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  9. ^ Jaffe-Hoffman, Maayan (17 November 2020). "Could mRNA COVID-19 vaccines be dangerous in the long-term?". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  10. ^ Jaffe-Hoffman, Maayan (1 December 2020). "Hadassah research head raises questions about mRNA vaccine safety". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 1 December 2020.

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