Robin Allshire | |
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Born | Robin Campbell Allshire 1960 (age 63–64) |
Alma mater | Trinity College Dublin (BSc) University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Epigenetics Heterochromatin Chromatin Centromere Kinetochore[1] |
Institutions | University of Edinburgh Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory |
Thesis | Construction and analysis of vectors based on bovine papilloma virus (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Chris Bostock Edwin Southern[2] |
Other academic advisors | Nicholas Hastie |
Website | allshirelab |
Robin Campbell Allshire (born 19 May 1960) is a British academic who is Professor of Chromosome Biology[3] at University of Edinburgh and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow.[4][1] His research group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology[5] focuses on the epigenetic mechanisms governing the assembly of specialised domains of chromatin and their transmission through cell division.[6]
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