Professional Experience

Education and Training

Selected Publications

  • An integrated genome-wide multi-omics analysis of gene expression dynamics in the preimplantation mouse embryo. Israel S, Ernst M, Psathaki OE, Drexler HCA, Casser E, Suzuki Y, Makalowski W, Boiani M, Fuellen G, Taher LSci Rep., 2019. [Pubmed].

  • Pairs of Adjacent Conserved Noncoding Elements Separated by Conserved Genomic Distances Act as Cis-Regulatory Units. Li L, Barth NKH, Hirth E, Taher LGenome Biol Evol., 2018.  [Pubmed].

  • Subpallial Enhancer Transgenic Lines: a Data and Tool Resource to Study Transcriptional Regulation of GABAergic Cell Fate. Silberberg SN, Taher L, Lindtner S, Sandberg M, Nord AS, Vogt D, Mckinsey GL, Hoch R, Pattabiraman K, Zhang D, Ferran JL, Rajkovic A, Golonzhka O, Kim C, Zeng H, Puelles L, Visel A, Rubenstein JLR. Neuron, 2016; 92(1):59-74. [Pubmed].

  • Analysis of microRNA and Gene Expression Profiles in Multiple Sclerosis: Integrating Interaction Data to Uncover Regulatory Mechanisms. Freiesleben S, Hecker M, Zettl UK, Fuellen G, Taher L. Sci Rep., 2016;6:34512. [Pubmed].

  • Revealing complex function, process and pathway interactions with high-throughput expression and biological annotation data. Singh NK, Ernst M, Liebscher V, Fuellen G, Taher L.. Mol Biosyst., 2016;12(10):3196-208. [Pubmed].

  • sequence signatures extracted from proximal promoters can be used to predict distal enhancers. Taher L, Smith RP, Kim MJ, Ahituv N, Ovcharenko I. Genome Biol., 2013;14(10):R117. [Pubmed].

  • Massively parallel decoding of mammalian regulatory sequences supports a flexible organizational model. Smith RP*, Taher L*, Patwardhan RP, Kim MJ, Inoue F, Shendure J, Ovcharenko I, Ahituv N. <emb>Nat Genet.</emb>, 2013 Sep;45(9):1021-8. [Pubmed].

  • genome-wide identification of conserved regulatory function in diverged sequences. Taher L, McGaughey DM, Maragh S, Aneas I, Bessling SL, Miller W, Nobrega MA, McCallion AS, Ovcharenko I. Genome Res., 21(7):1139-1149, 2011. [Pubmed].

  • The genome of the Western clawed frog Xenopus tropicalis. Hellsten U, Harland RM, Gilchrist MJ, Hendrix D, Jurka J, Kapitonov V, Ovcharenko I, Putnam NH, Shu S, Taher L, Blitz IL, Blumberg B, Dichmann DS, Dubchak I, Amaya E, Detter JC, Fletcher R, Gerhard DS, Goodstein D, Graves T, Grigoriev IV, Grimwood J, Kawashima T, Lindquist E, Lucas SM, Mead PE, Mitros T, Ogino H, Ohta Y, Poliakov AV, Pollet N, Robert J, Salamov A, Sater AK, Schmutz J, Terry A, Vize PD, Warren WC, Wells D, Wills A, Wilson RK, Zimmerman LB, Zorn AM, Grainger R, Grammer T, Khokha MK, Richardson PM, Rokhsar DS. Science, 328(5978):633-636, 2010. [Pubmed].
  • Variable locus length in the human genome leads to ascertainment bias in functional inference for non-coding elements. Taher L, Ovcharenko I. Bioinformatics, 25(5):578-584, 2009. [Pubmed].

All my publications on PubMed.

Leila Taher
Univ.-Prof. Dr.rer.nat.habil.
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+43 316 873 - 5380
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+43 316 873 - 5380