Gil McVean
British statistical geneticist (born 1973) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean (born February 1973)[5] is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford,[6] fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and co-founder and director of Genomics plc.[5][7] He also co-chaired the 1000 Genomes Project analysis group.[8][9]
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| Born | Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean February 1973 (age 52) |
| Nationality | British |
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| Thesis | Adaptation and conflict : the differences between the sexes in mammalian genome evolution (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Laurence Hurst[2][3][4] |
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| Website | Professor Gil McVean - University of Oxford |
Education
From 1991-94, he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biological Sciences at the University of Oxford.[10] He completed his PhD in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge supervised by Laurence Hurst[11][12] in 1998.[3][13]
Career and research
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Perspective
McVean completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000, supervised by Brian and Deborah Charlesworth.[14][13]
From 2000-04, he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow in the Department of Statistics at Oxford, where he has also been a University lecturer in Mathematical Genetics since 2004. He was reappointed in 2009 until retirement age.[15] In October 2006, he was appointed professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford.[16]
McVean's research[17] focuses on population genetics, statistics[18] and evolutionary biology including the International HapMap Project,[19][20] recombination rates in the human genome[21] and the 1000 Genomes Project.[22][23]
McVean developed a statistical method to look at recombination rate which helped to identify PRDM9 as a hotspot positioning gene.[24] In 2014, with Peter Donnelly, McVean co-founded Genomics plc, a genomics analysis company, as a corporate spin-off of the University of Oxford.[5] In 2017, he was a founding director of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford.[25]
Honours and awards
In 2006 McVean was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.[26][27]
In 2010, McVean was awarded the Francis Crick Medal and delivered that year's lecture entitled "Our genomes, our history".[28]
In 2012, he was awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize.[29]
In 2013, he presented a talk TEDxWarwick entitled A Thousand Genomes a Thousand Stories.[30]
In May 2014, McVean was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation.[31]
McVean was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016[32] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[33][34]
References
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