Michael Ashburner
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Michael Ashburner
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23 May 1942 Sussex, England |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge (BA, PhD) |
| Thesis | Studies on puffing in the salivary gland chromosomes of Drosophila (1968) |
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| Other notable students | Casey Bergman (postdoc) |
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| Influences | Bruce Alberts |
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Michael Ashburner FRS (born 23 May 1942) is a biologist and emeritus Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He is also the former joint-head and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.
Born in Sussex, England, Ashburner attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1953 to 1960. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences Tripos (Genetics) in 1964, his PhD from the Department of Genetics in 1968, and was awarded a Doctor of Science in 1978, all from Cambridge.
Most of Ashburner's research has been on the model organism Drosophila melanogaster. Ashburner's career began in the early period of molecular biology prior to the development of most of the recombinant DNA techniques in use today, such as Northern/Southern/Western blotting. Nevertheless, by observing patterns of "puffing" in polytene chromosomes, he established the existence of a cascade of genetic controls in the post-larval development triggered by ecdysone. The Ashburner model of 1974 became a paradigm for metazoan gene regulation inasmuch as the Jacob-Monod model did for prokaryotes. Ashburner collaborated widely and mentored numerous PhD students and Postdoctoral research students during his career.
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