Robin Allshire
Robin Allshire | |
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Robin Allshire in 2019 | |
| Born | Robin Campbell Allshire 1960 (age 64–65) |
| Education | Trinity College Dublin (BSc) University of Edinburgh (PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Epigenetics Heterochromatin Chromatin Centromere Kinetochore |
| 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 |
| Other academic advisors | Nicholas Hastie |
| Website | allshirelab |
Robin Campbell Allshire (born 19 May 1960) is a British academic who is Professor of Chromosome Biology at University of Edinburgh and a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow. His research group at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology focuses on the epigenetic mechanisms governing the assembly of specialised domains of chromatin and their transmission through cell division.