Christopher Burge

Chris Burge
Born	May 26, 1968 (1968-05-26) (age 43)[1]
Institutions	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Alma mater	Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Samuel Karlin
Known for	GENSCAN[2][3]
Notable awards	Overton Prize[4]

Christopher B. Burge is the Whitehead Career Development Associate Professor of Biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.^[5]

He 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^[1] under the supervision of Samuel Karlin.^[2][3] 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.^[6] From 1997 to 1999 he worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Phillip Allen Sharp.^[7] In 2001 he was awarded the Overton Prize^[4] for Computational Biology by the International Society for Computational Biology.

His current research interests include genomics, RNA splicing and microRNA^[8] regulation.^[9][10]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/CBurgeCV.pdf Christopher Burge CV
2. ^ ^{a b} Burge, C.; Karlin, S. (1997). "Prediction of complete gene structures in human genomic DNA". Journal of Molecular Biology 268 (1): 78–94. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1997.0951. PMID 9149143.  edit
3. ^ ^{a b} Burge, C.; Karlin, S. (1998). "Finding the genes in genomic DNA". Current opinion in structural biology 8 (3): 346–354. PMID 9666331.  edit
4. ^ ^{a b} http://www.iscb.org/iscb-awards/overton-prize Overton prize winners
5. ^ http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/cburge.html Burge laboratory
6. ^ Lander, Eric S.; Linton, M. .; Birren, B. .; Nusbaum, C. .; Zody, C. .; Baldwin, J. .; Devon, K. .; Dewar, K. . et al. (Feb 2001). "Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome". Nature 409 (6822): 860–921. doi:10.1038/35057062. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 11237011.  edit
7. ^ Burge, C.; Padgett, R.; Sharp, P. (1998). "Evolutionary fates and origins of U12-type introns". Molecular cell 2 (6): 773–785. doi:10.1016/S1097-2765(00)80292-0. PMID 9885565.  edit
8. ^ Rhoades, M. W.; Reinhart, B. J.; Lim, L. P.; Burge, C. B.; Bartel, B.; Bartel, D. P. (2002). "Prediction of Plant MicroRNA Targets". Cell 110 (4): 513–520. doi:10.1016/S0092-8674(02)00863-2. PMID 12202040.  edit
9. ^ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=burge%20cb Christopher Burge publications in PubMed
10. ^ http://www.biomedexperts.com/Profile.bme/172484/Christopher_B_Burge Chris Burge profile in BiomedExperts

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