Michael Ashburner#
| Membership Number: | 295 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | CELL & DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/ashburner |
Present and Previous Positions
- Emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge
- 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 FRS (1990)
- G.J. Mendel Medal from the Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic (1998)
- George W. Beadle Medal of the Genetics Society of America (1999)
- Genetics Society Medal of the UK Genetics Society (2005)
- Franklin Award of the Bioinformatics Organization (2006)
- Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal (2008)
- Fellow of the Royal Society of London
- Member of the Academia Europea
