Michael Ashburner

Michael Ashburner
FRS MAE
Michael Ashburner
Born(1942-05-23)23 May 1942[6]
Brighton, Sussex, England[7]
Died7 July 2023(2023-07-07) (aged 81)
NationalityBritish
EducationHigh Wycombe Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
Known for
Spouse
Francesca Ryan
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(m. 1963)​
[6]
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisStudies on puffing in the salivary gland chromosomes of Drosophila (1968)
Doctoral advisorAlan Henderson[5]
Websitewww.gen.cam.ac.uk/research-groups/ashburner

Michael Ashburner FRS MAE[11] (23 May 1942 – 7 July 2023) was an English biologist and Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge.[12][13] He also served as joint-head and co-founder of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)[14] of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)[15][16] and a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge.[17][18]

  1. ^ Spradling, A. (2008). "The 2008 Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal". Genetics. 178 (3): 1123–1124. doi:10.1534/genetics.104.017832. PMC 2278087. PMID 18385103.
  2. ^ Hawley, R.; Kaufman, T. (2000). "The 1999 George W. Beadle Medal. Michael Ashburner". Genetics. 154 (1): 5. doi:10.1093/genetics/154.1.5. PMC 1460911. PMID 10681184.
  3. ^ a b Michael Ashburner keynote: From sequences to ontologies - adventures in informatics at Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology July 2011
  4. ^ Mullins, J.; Morrison Mckay, B. (2011). "International Society for Computational Biology Honors Michael Ashburner and Olga Troyanskaya with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Awards for 2011". PLOS Computational Biology. 7 (6): e1002081. Bibcode:2011PLSCB...7E2081M. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002081. PMC 3107244.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference obit was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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    Anon (2024). "Ashburner, Prof. Michael". Who's Who (176th ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 2736. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U5810. ISBN 9781399409452. OCLC 1402257203. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)

  7. ^ Q & A Michael Ashburner Retrieved 28/4/21.
  8. ^ Ashburner, Michael; Golic, Kent G.; Hawley, R. Scott (2005), Drosophila : a laboratory handbook (1st ed.), Plain View, N.Y.: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, ISBN 978-0-87969-706-8
  9. ^ Botstein, D.; Cherry, J. M.; Ashburner, M.; Ball, C. A.; Blake, J. A.; Butler, H.; Davis, A. P.; Dolinski, K.; Dwight, S. S.; Eppig, J. T.; Harris, M. A.; Hill, D. P.; Issel-Tarver, L.; Kasarskis, A.; Lewis, S.; Matese, J. C.; Richardson, J. E.; Ringwald, M.; Rubin, G. M.; Sherlock, G. (2000). "Gene ontology: Tool for the unification of biology. The Gene Ontology Consortium". Nature Genetics. 25 (1): 25–29. doi:10.1038/75556. PMC 3037419. PMID 10802651. Open access icon
  10. ^ Ashburner, M.; Drysdale, R. (1994). "FlyBase--the Drosophila genetic database". Development. 120 (7): 2077–2079. doi:10.1242/dev.120.7.2077. PMID 7925011.
  11. ^ Anon (1990). "Professor Michael Ashburner FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 23 November 2015.
  12. ^ Rubin, Gerald (2023). "Michael Ashburner (1942-2023)". Current Biology. 33 (17): R881–R883. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.08.029. PMID 37619564.
  13. ^ "Emeritus Professor Michael Ashburner, Department of Genetics". gen.cam.ac.uk. University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 15 January 2013.
  14. ^ "Cold Spring Harbor Laboratoty (CSHL) Oral History | Michael Ashburner". Archived from the original on 20 March 2015.
  15. ^ "iMichael Ashburner archive collection". wellcomelibrary.org. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015.
  16. ^ Michael Ashburner publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  17. ^ The Papers of Michael Ashburner held at Churchill Archives Centre
  18. ^ Cherbas, Peter; Kaufman, Thom (2023). "In Memoriam: Michael Ashburner". flybase.org. FlyBase.