Adrian Bird

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Sir Adrian Bird
CBE FRS FRSE FMedSci
Born
Adrian Peter Bird

(1947-07-03) 3 July 1947 (age 77)[15]
Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England[16]
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(m. 1993)​
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ThesisThe cytology and biochemistry of DNA amplification in the ovary of Xenopus laevis (1972)
Doctoral advisorMax Birnstiel[11][12][13]
Doctoral studentsRob Klose[14]
Websitebirdlab.bio.ed.ac.uk

Sir Adrian Peter Bird (born 3 July 1947) is a British geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. Bird has spent much of his academic career in Edinburgh, from receiving his PhD in 1970 to working at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and later serving as director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology. His research focuses on understanding DNA methylation and CpG islands, and their role in diseases such as Rett syndrome.[17]

  1. ^ Prize
  2. ^ Jaenisch, R.; Bird, A. (2003). "Epigenetic regulation of gene expression: how the genome integrates intrinsic and environmental signals". Nature Genetics. 33 Suppl (3s): 245–254. doi:10.1038/ng1089. PMID 12610534. S2CID 17270515.
  3. ^ Bird, A (2007). "Perceptions of epigenetics". Nature. 447 (7143): 396–8. Bibcode:2007Natur.447..396B. doi:10.1038/nature05913. PMID 17522671. S2CID 4357965.
  4. ^ Bird, A. P. (1986). "CpG-rich islands and the function of DNA methylation". Nature. 321 (6067): 209–13. Bibcode:1986Natur.321..209B. doi:10.1038/321209a0. PMID 2423876. S2CID 4236677.
  5. ^ Bird, A (2002). "DNA methylation patterns and epigenetic memory". Genes & Development. 16 (1): 6–21. doi:10.1101/gad.947102. PMID 11782440.
  6. ^ Bird, A. P.; Wolffe, A. P. (1999). "Methylation-induced repression--belts, braces, and chromatin". Cell. 99 (5): 451–4. doi:10.1016/s0092-8674(00)81532-9. PMID 10589672. S2CID 15201044.
  7. ^ Lewis, J. D.; Meehan, R. R.; Henzel, W. J.; Maurer-Fogy, I; Jeppesen, P; Klein, F; Bird, A (1992). "Purification, sequence, and cellular localization of a novel chromosomal protein that binds to methylated DNA". Cell. 69 (6): 905–14. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(92)90610-O. PMID 1606614. S2CID 6825994.
  8. ^ Nan, X; Ng, H. H.; Johnson, C. A.; Laherty, C. D.; Turner, B. M.; Eisenman, R. N.; Bird, A (1998). "Transcriptional repression by the methyl-CpG-binding protein MeCP2 involves a histone deacetylase complex". Nature. 393 (6683): 386–9. Bibcode:1998Natur.393..386N. doi:10.1038/30764. PMID 9620804. S2CID 4427745.
  9. ^ Cheval, H; Guy, J; Merusi, C; De Sousa, D; Selfridge, J; Bird, A (2012). "Postnatal inactivation reveals enhanced requirement for MeCP2 at distinct age windows". Human Molecular Genetics. 21 (17): 3806–14. doi:10.1093/hmg/dds208. PMC 3412380. PMID 22653753. Open access icon
  10. ^ Cite error: The named reference sanger was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  12. ^ Bird, A. (2007). "Q&A: Adrian Bird". Current Biology. 17 (11): R393–R394. Bibcode:2007CBio...17.R393B. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.03.018. PMID 17600901. S2CID 13050386.
  13. ^ Schatz, G. (2015). "Max L. Birnstiel (1933–2014)". Cell. 160 (1–2): 11–12. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2014.12.030.
  14. ^ Klose, Rob (2005). Biochemical analysis of MeCP2 (PhD thesis). University of Edinburgh. hdl:1842/10997. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.653493. Open access icon
  15. ^ a b Anon (2015). "Bird, Sir Adrian Peter". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U7581. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  16. ^ England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1916-2007
  17. ^ Adrian Bird's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)