Adrian Bird
British geneticist and professor / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the association football player, see Adrian Bird (footballer).
Sir Adrian Peter Bird, CBE, FRS, FRSE, FMedSci (born 3 July 1947) is a British geneticist and Buchanan Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh. Bird has spent much of his academic career in Edinburgh, from receiving his PhD in 1970 to working at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit and later serving as director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Cell Biology. His research focuses on understanding DNA methylation and CpG islands, and their role in diseases such as Rett syndrome.[17]
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Born | Adrian Peter Bird (1947-07-03) 3 July 1947 (age 76)[1] Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England[2] |
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Thesis | The cytology and biochemistry of DNA amplification in the ovary of Xenopus laevis (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Max Birnstiel[13][14][15] |
Doctoral students | Rob Klose[16] |
Website | birdlab |
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