Christopher Burge
| Chris Burge | |
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| Born | Christopher Boyce Burge May 26, 1968 [1] |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Thesis | Identification of genes in human genomic DNA (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel Karlin[2] |
| Known for | GENSCAN[3][4] |
| Notable awards | Overton Prize[5] Searle Scholar Award[6] |
| Website genes |
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Christopher Boyce Burge is the Whitehead Career Development Associate Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Education
Burge completed his Bachelor of Science at Stanford University in 1990, and continued graduate studies in computational biology at Stanford University, gaining his PhD[7] in 1997[1] under the supervision of Samuel Karlin.[3][4] During his time at Stanford he was responsible for developing algorithms for GENSCAN used in gene prediction for example the initial analysis of the Human Genome Project.[8] His PhD thesis was titled Identification of genes in human genomic DNA.
Research
From 1997 to 1999 Burge worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Phillip Allen Sharp, working in the fields of RNA splicing and molecular evolution.[9] Burge joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 as a Bioinformatics Fellow. He became Assistant Professor in 2002 and has been an Associate Professor since 2004. He has been an Associate Member of the Broad Institute since 2004.[1] His current research interests include genomics, RNA splicing and microRNA[10] regulation.[11][12][13][14]
Burge has also served on the editorial boards of the academic journals RNA, PLOS Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics.[1]
Awards
In 2001 he was awarded the Overton Prize[5] for Computational Biology by the International Society for Computational Biology. He was awarded a Searle Scholar Award in 2003 for his research in the computational biology of gene expression.[6] In 2007 he was awarded the Schering-Plough Research Institute Award (now known as the ASBMB Young Investigator Award) by the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology for his outstanding research contributions to biochemistry and molecular biology.[15]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/CBurgeCV.pdf Christopher Burge CV
- ↑ Christopher Burge at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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- ↑ Christopher Burge's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
- ↑ http://www.biomedexperts.com/Profile.bme/172484/Christopher_B_Burge Chris Burge profile in BiomedExperts
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