Ewan Birney
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Ewan Birney at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2014
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| Born | John Frederick William Birney December 1972 (age 44) Paddington, London |
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| Education | Eton College |
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| Thesis | Sequence alignment in bioinformatics (2000) |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Durbin |
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| Other notable students | Mikhail Spivakov (postdoc) |
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| Spouse | Barley Birney (née Laycock) (m. 2003) |
| Children | Two |
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John Frederick William Birney, known as Ewan, (born 1972)FRSFMedSci is joint Director with Rolf Apweiler of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire. He is also an Associate Faculty member at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and an Honorary Professor of Bioinformatics at the University of Cambridge. Birney has made significant contributions to the analysis of genomes. Through his development of innovative bioinformatics and computational biology tools, researchers around the world are able to predict and annotate regions of interest in DNA with speed and confidence.
Birney was educated at Eton College as an Oppidan Scholar where he studied GCE Advanced Levels in Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Art. Before going to university, Birney completed a gap year internship at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory supervised by James Watson and Adrian Krainer. He acted as a bookmaker to the genomics community, taking bets on estimates of the total number of genes (and so-called "junk DNA") in the human genome.
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