Michael Ashburner
Michael Ashburner (born May 23, 1942 in Brighton ) is a British geneticist and bioinformatician and professor emeritus at the University of Cambridge .
Live and act
Ashburner earned a bachelor's degree in genetics ( Tripos ) from the University of Cambridge in 1964 . In 1968 the Master and Ph.D. , also in genetics, the Sc.D. 1978. In 1968/1969 he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Herschel K. Mitchell at the California Institute of Technology . Ashburner took on his first teaching duties (University Lecturer) at the University of Cambridge in 1973 and 1980 as a reader . In 1991 he was given a full professorship in biology . In addition, Ashburner was research group leader (Senior Scientist) from 1994 to 2001 and then co-director at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) in Hinxton , not far from Cambridge .
Ashburner was mainly concerned with the structure and evolution of genomes . For most of his research, he used Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism . Ashburner is the author of the standard Drosophila: A Laboratory Handbook . Ashburner dealt with genetics , developmental biology , cytogenetics and evolutionary biology , the latter on both a molecular and an organismic level. He was part of the community of scientists who sequenced the entire genome of Drosophila . In the last years of his scientific career, Ashburner became increasingly concerned with the organization of genetic databases . He was one of the founders of FlyBase , one of the most important databases for Drosophila , and of Gene Ontology , an international bioinformatics initiative to standardize part of the vocabulary of the life sciences. Ashburner massively supports the idea of Open Access .
Ashburner has been married since 1963. He has three children.
Awards (selection)
- 1977 member of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- 1989 member of the Academia Europaea
- 1990 member of the Royal Society
- 1993 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 1999 first recipient of the George W. Beadle Award
- 2002 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Crete
- 2003 Honorary Doctorate from the University of Edinburgh
- 2006 Benjamin Franklin Award
- 2008 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
Web links
- Michael Ashburner [Emeritus Professor] at the University of Cambridge (cam.ac.uk)
- Michael Ashburner at the Oral history collection of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (cshl.org)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Michael Ashburner: Michael Ashburner . In: Current Biology . tape 16 , no. 22 , p. R941-R943 , doi : 10.1016 / j.cub.2006.10.010 ( elsevier.com ).
- ↑ Curriculum Vitae (PDF, 88.5 kB, status around 2003) at the University of Crete (uoc.gr); accessed on December 17, 2016.
- ^ A b Benjamin Franklin Award - Bioinformatics.org. In: bioinformatics.org. Accessed December 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Ilire Hasani, Robert Hoffmann: Academy of Europe: Ashburner Michael. In: ae-info.org. May 25, 2015, accessed December 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Michael Ashburner at the Royal Society. ( Memento from November 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present (PDF, 1.2 MB) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org); accessed on December 17, 2016.
- ^ RS Hawley, TC Kaufman: The 1999 George W. Beadle Medal. Michael Ashburner. In: Genetics. Volume 154, number 1, January 2000, p. 5, PMID 10681184 , PMC 1460911 (free full text).
- ^ A. Spradling : The 2008 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal. Michael Ashburner. In: Genetics. Volume 178, number 3, March 2008, pp. 1123-1124, doi : 10.1534 / genetics.104.017832 , PMID 18385103 , PMC 2278087 (free full text).
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ashburner, Michael |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British geneticist and bioinformatician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brighton |