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Born | Julian John Thurstan Gough September 1974 (age 42) |
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Thesis | Hidden Markov models and their application to the genome analysis in the context of protein structure (2001) |
Doctoral advisor | Cyrus Chothia |
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Known for | SUPERFAMILY |
Website bioinformatics |
Julian John Thurstan Gough (born 1974) is a Professor of Bioinformatics in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bristol, UK.
Gough was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge and the University of Bristol where he was awarded a joint honours degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1998. He went on to complete his PhD in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge supervised by Cyrus Chothia on genome analysis and protein structure as a postgraduate student of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, graduating in 2001.
Following his PhD, Gough completed postdoctoral research at the LMB and Stanford University, with Michael Levitt. Subsequently, he was a scientist at RIKEN in Tokyo before being appointed a member of faculty at the University of Bristol, where he has worked since 2007. He has also been a visiting scientist at the Pasteur Institute in Paris and an Associate Professor at Tokyo Medical and Dental University.