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Michael Ashburner FRS MAE (23 May 1942 – 7 July 2023) was an English biologist and Professor in the Department of Genetics at University of Cambridge. He was also the former 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 ...
- Alan Henderson
- University of Cambridge (BA, PhD)
- British
Michael Ashburner (* 23. Mai 1942 in Brighton [1] [2]; † 7. Juli 2023) war ein britischer Genetiker und Bioinformatiker und Professor an der University of Cambridge. [3] Inhaltsverzeichnis. 1 Leben und Wirken. 2 Auszeichnungen (Auswahl) 3 Weblinks. 4 Einzelnachweise. Leben und Wirken.
23. Aug. 2023 · He became the first head of research for EMBL-EBI, later joint head of EMBL-EBI. Michael was a regular presence at EMBL-EBI even after his formal leadership role ended, and a constant supporter of capturing biological knowledge in databases for future generations. Michael was a prolific editor and author.
Michael’s contributions to science were enormous, spanning disciplines from Drosophila biology and genetics, through to bioinformatics and genome biology. His PhD work focused on characterising the temporal puffing patterns observed in fruit fly larval salivary gland chromosomes, which he continued to develop, culminating in the highly ...
A tribute to the late Professor Michael Ashburner, a leading geneticist and biologist who studied Drosophila melanogaster and sequenced its genome. He was a Fellow of Churchill College, the Royal Society and the European Molecular Biology Organization.
Contact. Michael Ashburner, EMBL-EBI co-founder and former Joint Head of EMBL-EBI , passed away on Friday 7 July 2023 at the age of 81. It is with sadness that we mark the passing of Michael Ashburner, a pioneer in the field of bioinformatics and the founding director of EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI).
in biology, Michael was instrumental in the founding and development of FlyBase (https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.120.7.2077), the online encyclopaedia of Drosophila genetics and biology, and led the literature curation group here in the Genetics Department for over 20 years.
