Neil Brockdorff

Neil Brockdorff
FRS FMedSci FRSB
Neil Brockdorff at the Royal Society in London, July 2018
Born
Neil Alexander Steven Brockdorff

1958 (age 65–66)[3]
EducationHampstead School[3]
Alma materUniversity of Sussex (BSc)
University of Glasgow (PhD)[4]
AwardsEMBO Member (1999)[1]
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental epigenetics
X inactivation[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisThe effect of oestradiol-17β on the ribonucleases and ribonuclease inhibitor of immature rat uterus (1985)
Websitewww.bioch.ox.ac.uk/research/brockdorff

Neil Alexander Steven Brockdorff (born 1958) is a British biochemist who is a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and professor in the department of biochemistry at the University of Oxford.[5][6] Brockdorff's research investigates gene and genome regulation in mammalian development.[7] His interests are in the molecular basis of X-inactivation, the process that evolved in mammals to equalise X chromosome gene expression levels in XX females relative to XY males.[7]

  1. ^ "EMBO MEMBER: Neil Brockdorff". people.embo.org. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  2. ^ Brockdorff, Neil (2017). "Polycomb complexes in X chromosome inactivation". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 372 (1733). doi:10.1098/rstb.2017.0021. ISSN 0962-8436. PMC 5627167. PMID 28947664.
  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference whoswho was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ Brockdorff, Neil Alexander Steven (1985). The effect of oestradiol-17β on the ribonucleases and ribonuclease inhibitor of immature rat uterus. jisc.ac.uk (PhD thesis). University of Glasgow. OCLC 301485805. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.379306.
  5. ^ "Brockdorff Lab". sites.google.com. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Prof Neil Brockdorff Page - Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford". www.bioch.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
  7. ^ a b Anon (2018). "Professor Neil Brockdorff FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 6 June 2018. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

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