Ran Blekhman
Assistant Professor
Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
University of Minnesota
United States of America
Biography
Ran Blekhman is an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota, with a joint appointment in the Department of Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development, and the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Behavior. Before joining the UofM in 2013, Ran was a Postdoctoral Associate working with Andrew G. Clark at Cornell University. Ran holds a Ph.D. in Human Genetics from The University of Chicago, where he worked with Yoav Gilad.
Research Interest
Host genomic factors that control and interact with the microbiome, co-regulation and co-evolution among interacting genes.
Publications
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Blekhman R, Goodrich JK, Huang K, Sun Q, Bukowski R, et al. (2015) Host genetic variation impacts microbiome composition across human body sites. Genome biology; 16 : 191.
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Gomez A, Petrzelkova KJ, Burns MB, Yeoman CJ, Amato KR, et al. (2016) Gut microbiome of coexisting BaAka Pygmies and Bantu reflects gradients of traditional subsistence patterns. Cell reports; 14 : 2142-2153.
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Nédélec Y, Sanz J, Baharian G, Szpiech ZA, Pacis A, et al. (2016) Genetic ancestry and natural selection drive population differences in immune responses to pathogens. Cell; 167 : 657-669.
