Christopher Burge
Chris Burge | |
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| Born | Christopher Boyce Burge May 26, 1968 |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Known for | GENSCAN |
| Awards | Overton Prize Searle Scholar Award |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Identification of genes in human genomic DNA (1997) |
| Doctoral advisor | Samuel Karlin |
| Website | genes |
Christopher Boyce Burge is an American computational biologist and a Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his research on gene expression regulation, particularly RNA processing mechanisms like RNA splicing, polyadenylation, and microRNA-mediated regulation, using computational and experimental approaches.