Michael Ashburner#
| Email: | m.ashburner 'at' gen.cam.ac.uk |
| Membership Number: | 295 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Section: | CELL BIOLOGY |
| Username: | mashburner |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1994-2001- Research Coordinator and then Joint-Head of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory - European Bioinformatics Institute at Hinxton, Cambridge
- 1991- Professor of Biology, University of Cambridge
- 1979- Research Assistant at the Department of Genetics, University of Cambridge
- 1968- PhD in genetics, University of Cambridge
Fields of Scholarship
- Genome organization and evolution in Drosophila
- Development of structured controlled vocabularies (ontologies) for use in the context of biological databases
Honours and Awards
- Genetics Society Medal of the UK Genetics Society(2005)
- Franklin Award of the Bioinformatics Organization(2006)
- George W. Beadle Medal of the Genetics Society of America(1999)
- G.J. Mendel Medal from the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic(1998)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- Member of the Academia Europea
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