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Ran Blekhman

Assistant Professor
Genetics, Cell Biology, and Development
University of Minnesota
United States of America

Professor Genetics
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 Intrest

Host genomic factors that control and interact with the microbiome, co-regulation and co-evolution among interacting genes.

List of Publications
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.
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.
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.
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