Gil McVean | |
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Born | Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean February 1973 (age 51) |
Nationality | British |
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Thesis | Adaptation and conflict : the differences between the sexes in mammalian genome evolution (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Laurence Hurst [2] [3] [4] |
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Website | Professor Gil McVean - University of Oxford |
Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean FRS FMedSci [5] (born February 1973) [6] is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford, [7] fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and co-founder and director of Genomics plc. [6] [8] He also co-chaired the 1000 Genomes Project analysis group. [9] [10]
From 1991-94, he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford. [11] He completed his PhD in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge supervised by Laurence Hurst [12] [13] in 1998. [3] [14]
McVean completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000, supervised by Brian and Deborah Charlesworth. [15] [14]
From 2000-04, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics at Oxford, where he has also been a University lecturer in Mathematical Genetics since 2004. He was reappointed in 2009 until retirement age. [16] In October 2006, he was appointed professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford. [17]
McVean's research [18] focuses on population genetics, statistics [19] and evolutionary biology including the International HapMap Project, [20] [21] recombination rates in the human genome [22] and the 1000 Genomes Project. [23] [24]
McVean developed a statistical method to look at recombination rate which helped to identify PRDM9 as a hotspot positioning gene. [25] In 2014, with Peter Donnelly, McVean co-founded Genomics plc, a genomics analysis company, as a corporate spin-off of the University of Oxford. [6] In 2017, he was a founding director of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford. [26]
In 2006 McVean was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. [27] [28]
In 2010, McVean was awarded the Francis Crick Medal and delivered that year's lecture entitled "Our genomes, our history". [29]
In 2012, he was awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize. [30]
In 2013, he presented a talk TEDxWarwick entitled A Thousand Genomes a Thousand Stories. [31]
In May 2014, McVean was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation. [32]
McVean was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 [5] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). [33] [34]
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Gil McVean | |
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Born | Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean February 1973 (age 51) |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater |
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Awards |
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Scientific career | |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Adaptation and conflict : the differences between the sexes in mammalian genome evolution (1998) |
Doctoral advisor | Laurence Hurst [2] [3] [4] |
Other academic advisors | |
Website | Professor Gil McVean - University of Oxford |
Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean FRS FMedSci [5] (born February 1973) [6] is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford, [7] fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and co-founder and director of Genomics plc. [6] [8] He also co-chaired the 1000 Genomes Project analysis group. [9] [10]
From 1991-94, he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford. [11] He completed his PhD in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge supervised by Laurence Hurst [12] [13] in 1998. [3] [14]
McVean completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000, supervised by Brian and Deborah Charlesworth. [15] [14]
From 2000-04, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics at Oxford, where he has also been a University lecturer in Mathematical Genetics since 2004. He was reappointed in 2009 until retirement age. [16] In October 2006, he was appointed professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford. [17]
McVean's research [18] focuses on population genetics, statistics [19] and evolutionary biology including the International HapMap Project, [20] [21] recombination rates in the human genome [22] and the 1000 Genomes Project. [23] [24]
McVean developed a statistical method to look at recombination rate which helped to identify PRDM9 as a hotspot positioning gene. [25] In 2014, with Peter Donnelly, McVean co-founded Genomics plc, a genomics analysis company, as a corporate spin-off of the University of Oxford. [6] In 2017, he was a founding director of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford. [26]
In 2006 McVean was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize. [27] [28]
In 2010, McVean was awarded the Francis Crick Medal and delivered that year's lecture entitled "Our genomes, our history". [29]
In 2012, he was awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize. [30]
In 2013, he presented a talk TEDxWarwick entitled A Thousand Genomes a Thousand Stories. [31]
In May 2014, McVean was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation. [32]
McVean was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016 [5] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci). [33] [34]
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