Raluca Mihaela Gordan

Gordan

Associate Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics

Appointments and Affiliations

  • Associate Professor in Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Associate Professor of Computer Science
  • Associate Professor in Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Associate Professor of Cell Biology
  • Member of the Duke Cancer Institute

Contact Information

  • Office Location: 101 Science Drive, 2179 CIEMAS, Durham, NC 27708
  • Office Phone: (919) 684-9881
  • Email Address: raluca.gordan@duke.edu
  • Websites:

Education

  • Ph.D. Duke University, 2009

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

  • Sloan Research Fellowship-Molecular Biology. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. 2014

Courses Taught

  • CBB 561: Computational Sequence Biology
  • CBB 591: Independent Study
  • CBB 700: Internship
  • COMPSCI 393: Research Independent Study
  • COMPSCI 394: Research Independent Study
  • COMPSCI 561: Computational Sequence Biology
  • UPGEN 778D: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module IV
  • UPGEN 778F: University Program in Genetics and Genomics Biological Solutions Module VI

In the News

Representative Publications

  • Horton, CA; Alexandari, AM; Hayes, MGB; Marklund, E; Schaepe, JM; Aditham, AK; Shah, N; Suzuki, PH; Shrikumar, A; Afek, A; Greenleaf, WJ; Gordân, R; Zeitlinger, J; Kundaje, A; Fordyce, PM, Short tandem repeats bind transcription factors to tune eukaryotic gene expression., Science, vol 381 no. 6664 (2023) [10.1126/science.add1250] [abs].
  • Glasscock, CJ; Pecoraro, R; McHugh, R; Doyle, LA; Chen, W; Boivin, O; Lonnquist, B; Na, E; Politanska, Y; Haddox, HK; Cox, D; Norn, C; Coventry, B; Goreshnik, I; Vafeados, D; Lee, GR; Gordan, R; Stoddard, BL; DiMaio, F; Baker, D, Computational design of sequence-specific DNA-binding proteins., bioRxiv (2023) [10.1101/2023.09.20.558720] [abs].
  • Mielko, Z; Zhang, Y; Sahay, H; Liu, Y; Schaich, MA; Schnable, B; Morrison, AM; Burdinski, D; Adar, S; Pufall, M; Van Houten, B; Gordân, R; Afek, A, UV irradiation remodels the specificity landscape of transcription factors., Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, vol 120 no. 11 (2023) [10.1073/pnas.2217422120] [abs].
  • Sun, T; Ding, C-KC; Zhang, Y; Zhang, Y; Lin, C-C; Wu, J; Setayeshpour, Y; Coggins, S; Shepard, C; Macias, E; Kim, B; Zhou, P; Gordân, R; Chi, J-T, MESH1 knockdown triggers proliferation arrest through TAZ repression., Cell Death & Disease, vol 13 no. 3 (2022) [10.1038/s41419-022-04663-6] [abs].
  • Zhao, J; Martin, V; Gordân, R, Transcription Factor-Centric Approach to Identify Non-recurring Putative Regulatory Drivers in Cancer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Including Subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol 13278 LNBI (2022), pp. 36-51 [10.1007/978-3-031-04749-7_3] [abs].