Robin Allshire

Robin Allshire
Robin Allshire in 2019
Born
Robin Campbell Allshire

1960 (age 63–64)
Alma materTrinity College Dublin (BSc)
University of Edinburgh (PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsEpigenetics
Heterochromatin
Chromatin
Centromere
Kinetochore[1]
InstitutionsUniversity of Edinburgh
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
ThesisConstruction and analysis of vectors based on bovine papilloma virus (1985)
Doctoral advisorChris Bostock
Edwin Southern[2]
Other academic advisorsNicholas Hastie
Websiteallshirelab.com

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]

  1. ^ a b Robin Allshire publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference allphd was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "Allshire lab members".
  4. ^ "Principal Research Fellowships: people we've funded". wellcome.ac.uk. Wellcome Trust.
  5. ^ "Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology - Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology". University of Edinburgh.
  6. ^ "Wellcome Trust lab". 11 January 2024.