Mikhail Gelfand
Михаил Гельфанд
Born	(1963-10-25) 25 October 1963 (age 60) Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Citizenship	Soviet Union, Russian Federation
Alma mater	MSU Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics
Scientific career
Fields	Bioinformatics, molecular biology
Institutions	Russian Academy of Sciences Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology Higher School of Economics
Doctoral advisor	Simon Gindikin[citation needed]

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gelfand (Russian: Михаил Сергеевич Гельфанд; born 25 October 1963) is a Russian Bioinformaticist and molecular biologist.^[1] He is a member of Academia Europaea, Vice President Biomedical Research of Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology,^[2] one of the founder of Dissernet plagiarism fighting society^[3] and a political activist, former member of Russian Opposition Coordination Council. He is a grandson of a prominent Soviet mathematician Israel Gelfand.^[4]

Some works by Mikhail Gelfand

• Gelfand M. S. Statistical analysis of mammalian pre-mRNA splicing sites // Nucleic Acids Research. 1989. V. 17. N. 15. 6369–6382.
• Gelfand M. S. Computer prediction of the exon-intron structure of mammalian pre-mRNAs // Nucleic Acids Research. 1990. Y. 18. N. 19. P. 5865–5869.
• Gelfand M. S. Statistical analysis and prediction of the exonic structure of human genes // Journal of Molecular Evolution. 1992. Y. 35. N. 2. P. 239–252.
• Gelfand M. S. Genetic language: metaphore or analogy // BioSystems. 1993. V. 30. P. 277—288
• Pevzner Р. А., Gelfand M. S., eds. Computer Genetics. A special issue on computational molecular biology // BioSystems. 1993. V. 30.
• Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Pevzner P. A. Spliced alignment: a new approach to gene recognition // Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1996. V. 1075. P. 141–158.
• Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Pevzner P. A. Gene recognition via spliced sequence alignment // Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 1996. V. 93. P. 9061–9066.
• Gelfand M. S., Koonin E. V. Avoidance of palindromic words in bacterial and archaeal genomes: a close connection with restriction enzymes // Nucleic Acids Research. 1997. V. 27. P. 2430–2439.
• Sze S.-H, Roytberg М. А., Gelfand M. S., Mironov A. A., Astakhova T. V., Pevzner P. A. Algorithms and software for support of gene identification experiments // Bioinformatics
• Mironov A. A., Roytberg M. A., Pevzner P. A., Gelfand M. S. Performance guarantee gene predictions via spliced alignment // Genomics

Awards and honors

In 2022, Gelfand was elected as a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology.^[5]