Aqib Hasnain, Amin Espah Borujeni, Yongjin Park, Diveena Becker, Paul Maschhoff, Joshua Urrutia, Linus Rydell, Shara Balakrishnan, Yuval Dorfan, Christopher A Voigt, Enoch Yeung, (2023), Disentangling gene expression burden identifies generalizable phenotypes induced by synthetic gene networks, bioRxiv.
Yuval Dorfan, Aviv Zeevi, Gita Reinitz, Magi Mualem, Yosi Shacham‐Diamand, (2023), Israel and the global synthetic biology ecosystem, Engineering Biology.
Mohammed Eslami, Amin Espah Borujeni, Hamed Eramian, Mark Weston, George Zheng, Joshua Urrutia, Carolyn Corbet, Diveena Becker, Paul Maschhoff, Katie Clowers, Alexander Cristofaro, Hamid Doost Hosseini, D Benjamin Gordon, Yuval Dorfan, Jedediah Singer, Matthew Vaughn, Niall Gaffney, John Fonner, Joe Stubbs, Christopher A Voigt, Enoch Yeung, (2022), Prediction of whole-cell transcriptional response with machine learning, Bioinformatics.
Yonatan Chemla, Yuval Dorfan, Adi Yannai, Dechuan Meng, Paul Cao, Sarah Glaven, D Benjamin Gordon, Johann Elbaz, Christopher A Voigt, (2022), Parallel engineering of environmental bacteria and performance over years under jungle-simulated conditions, PLoS One.
Yuval Dorfan, Boaz Schwartz, Sharon Gannot, (2021), Forward-backward recursive expectation-maximization for concurrent speaker tracking, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.
Yuval Dorfan, Ofer Schwartz, Sharon Gannot, (2020), Joint speaker localization and array calibration using expectation-maximization, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing.
Pedro Fontanarrosa, Hamid Doosthosseini, Amin Espah Borujeni, Yuval Dorfan, Christopher A Voigt, Chris Myers, (2020), Genetic circuit dynamics: hazard and glitch analysis, ACS synthetic biology.
Yuval Dorfan, Axel Plinge, Gershon Hazan, Sharon Gannot, (2018), Distributed Expectation-Maximization Algorithm for Speaker Localization in Reverberant Environments, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (TASLP).
Yuval Dorfan, Jacob Rovinsky, (2018), MISSILE VEHICLE COMMUNICATION UNIT, US patent office.
Yuval Dorfan, Sharon Gannot, (2015), Tree-based recursive expectation-maximization algorithm for localization of acoustic sources, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.
Tamir Tuller, Asaf Carmi, Kalin Vestsigian, Sivan Navon, Yuval Dorfan, John Zaborske, Tao Pan, Orna Dahan, Itay Furman, Yitzhak Pilpel, (2010), An evolutionarily conserved mechanism for controlling the efficiency of protein translation, Cell.
Erez Sali, Tomer Yanir, Mark Wagner, Noam Dotan, Yuval Dorfan, Ran Zaslavsky, (2010), Method and apparatus for detecting defects in wafers, US patent office.
Yuval Dorfan, Arie Feuer, Boaz Porat, (2004), Modeling and Identification of LPTV Systems by Wavelets, Signal Processing.
Experiences
1995-2017: Senior manager in various hi-tech and bio-tech companies.
2017-2020: Research scientist, MIT and the Broad Institute: Leading synthetic biology projects.
2021 – 2023: Co-Founder of Alagene, 1st Israeli bio-foundry supported by IIA, Hylabs, Reichman University and Michael Eisenberg as a national facility for synthetic biology.
2023-Now: Freelancer bio-tech & hi-tech companies
Grants & Awards
2018 - Three years grant from Israeli DoD for engineering soil and water bacteria for field applications, budget: 1M$.
2021 - Research grant from defense office for air contamination detection, budget: 400K nis
2021 - IIA grant for synthetic biology national facility, budget: 40M nis
2024 - ISF for 5 years with Dr. Ilana Kolodkin-Gal, Reichman University
2025 - Israeli Science Office grant for 2 years with Dr. Moshe Shemesh, Volcani Institute
International Projects
2017-2021: DARPA project for genetic circuits
2024 - ISF for 5 years with international collaboration: Prof. Douglas Densmore from BU, USA
