Christopher Burge

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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 in 1997 under the supervision of Samuel Karlin. 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. 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.{{Cite journal | last1 = Burge | first1 = C. | last2 = Padgett | first2 = R. | last3 = Sharp | first3 = P. | title = Evolutionary fates and origins of U12-type introns | journal = Molecular Cell | volume = 2 | issue = 6 | pages = 773–785 | year = 1998 | pmid = 9885565 | doi = 10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80292-0 | doi-access = free

Burge has also served on the editorial boards of the academic journals RNA, PLOS Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics.

Awards

In 2001 he was awarded the Overton Prize 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.

References

References

  1. http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/CBurgeCV.pdf {{Webarchive. link. (2011-08-17 Christopher Burge CV)
  2. {{MathGenealogy
  3. "Overton Prize".
  4. "Searle Scholars Program: Christopher Burge (2003)".
  5. "Christopher Burge".
  6. "Chris".
  7. Burge, Christopher Boyce. (2012). "Identification of genes in human genomic DNA". Stanford University.
  8. (Feb 2001). "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome". Nature.
  9. (2002). "Prediction of Plant MicroRNA Targets". Cell.
  10. {{Scopus
  11. http://www.biomedexperts.com/Profile.bme/172484/Christopher_B_Burge {{Webarchive. link. (2012-03-21 Chris Burge profile in [[BiomedExperts]])
  12. (2005). "Conserved Seed Pairing, Often Flanked by Adenosines, Indicates that Thousands of Human Genes are MicroRNA Targets". Cell.
  13. (2003). "Prediction of Mammalian MicroRNA Targets". Cell.
  14. "ASBMB Young Investigator Award formerly the ASBMB Schering-Plough Research Institute Award".

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