Erez Levanon  

Postdoctoral Fellow 

George Church’s lab

Department of Genetics
 Harvard Medical School  

77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, MA, USA 02115 

Work phone: +1-617-432-6512 

Email: elevanon@genetics.med.harvard.edu 

Research articles  

1.         Yelin, R*., D. Dahary*, R. Sorek*, E.Y. Levanon*, O. Goldstein, A. Shoshan, A. Diber, S. Biton, Y. Tamir, R. Khosravi, S. Nemzer, E. Pinner, S. Walach, J. Bernstein, K. Savitsky, and G. Rotman.  

“Widespread occurrence of antisense transcription in the human genome”  

Nature Biotechnology  21: 379-386. 2003 

*equal contribution with first author 

2.         Eisenberg, E. and E.Y. Levanon. 

”Human housekeeping genes are compact” 

 Trends in Genetics 19: 362-365. 2003 

3.         Kliger, Y. and E.Y. Levanon  

“Cloaked similarity between HIV-1 and SARS-CoV suggests an anti-SARS strategy” 

 BMC Microbiology  3: 20. 2003 

4.         Eisenberg, E. and E.Y. Levanon  

“Preferential attachment in the protein network evolution” 

 Physical Review Letters 91: 138701. 2003 

5.         Hazkani-Covo, E., E.Y. Levanon, G. Rotman, D. Graur, and A. Novik.. “Evolution of multicellularity in Metazoa: comparative analysis of the subcellular localization of proteins in Saccharomyces, Drosophila and Caenorhabditis” 

 Cell Biology International 28: 171-178. 2004 

6.         E.Y. Levanon,  E. Eisenberg*, R. Yelin*, S. Nemzer*, M. Hallegger, R. Shemesh, Z.Y. Fligelman, A. Shoshan, S.R. Pollock, D. Sztybel, M. Olshansky, G. Rechavi, and M.F. Jantsch. 

“Systematic identification of abundant A-to-I editing sites in the human transcriptome” 

 Nature Biotechnology 22: 1001-1005. 2004 

7.         E. Eisenberg, S. Nemzer, Y. Kinar, R. Sorek, G. Rechavi and  E.Y. Levanon  

“Is abundant A-to-I RNA editing primate-specific?” 

 Trends in Genetics 21: 77-81. 2005      

8.         E.Y. Levanon, M. Hallegger, Y. Kinar, R. Shemesh, K. Djinovic-Carugo, G. Rechavi, M. F. Jantsch and Eli Eisenberg. 

“Evolutionarily conserved human targets of adenosine to inosine RNA editing” 

 Nucleic Acids Research 33: 1162-8. 2005 

9.         M. Havilio, E.Y. Levanon, G Lerman, M Kupiec and  E Eisenberg.            

“Evidence for abundant transcription of non-coding regions in the  

Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome”   

BMC Genomics, 6, 93. 2005 

10.       Y .Neeman, D. Dahary, E.Y. Levanon, R. Sorek, and E. Eisenberg. 

“Is there any sense in antisense editing?” 

Trends in Genetics 21: 544-547 2005      

11.       E. Eisenberg, K. Adamsky, L. Cohen, N. Amariglio, A. Hirshberg, G. Rechavi and E.Y. Levanon.      

“Identification of RNA editing sites in the SNP database”  

Nucleic Acids Research 33: 4612-7. 2005 

12.       S. Carmi, E.Y. Levanon, S. Havlin and  E. Eisenberg. 

"Connectivity and expression in protein networks: Proteins in a complex are uniformly expressed" 

 Physical Review E 73: 031909    2006 

13.       Y. Neeman, E.Y. Levanon*, M. Hallegger, M.F. Jantsch and E. Eisenberg. 

“RNA editing in mouse is determined by its genomic repeats repertoire”  

RNA 12:1802-9  2006   

*equal contribution with first author   

14.       G. Lev-Maor, R. Sorek, E.Y. Levanon, N. Paz, E Eisenberg and G.Ast. 

   “RNA-editing-mediated exon evolution”   

Genome Biology. ;8(2):R29.   2007 

15.       N. Paz, E.Y. Levanon, N. Amariglio, AB. Heimberger, Z. Ram, S. Constantini, Z.S. Barbash, K. Adamsky, M. Safran, A. Hirschberg, M. Krupsky, I. Ben-Dov, S. Cazacu,T. Mikkelsen, C. Brodie, E. Eisenberg and G. Rechavi. 

“Altered Adenosine to Inosine RNA Editing in Human Cancer” . 

Genome Research 17: 1586-1595  2007 

Reviews & Book Chapters 

1.         E.Y. Levanon, and R. Sorek  

“The importance of alternative splicing in the drug discovery process” 

 Targets 2: 109-114. 2003 

2.         Y. Kliger, E.Y. Levanon and D.Gerber  

“From Genome to Antivirals: SARS as a Test Tube” 

Drug Discovery Today 10: 345-352. 2005 

3.         K. Levanon, E. Eisenberg, G. Rechavi and E.Y. Levanon 

“Letter from the editor: A-to-I RNA editing in Alu repeats in the human genome”  

EMBO Reports 6: 831-5. 2005 

4.         E.Y. Levanon  and  E. Eisenberg 

“Algorithmic approaches for identification of RNA editing sites”   

Briefings in Functional Genomics and Proteomics. 5:43-5   2006  

5.         E. Eisenberg and E.Y. Levanon    

“A-to-I Editing of Alu Repeats” 

RNA and DNA Editing: Molecular Mechanisms and their Integration into Biological Systems, Editor: Harold C. Smith; Wiley press (in press)