David Haussler Scientist

David Haussler (born 1953) is an American bioinformatician known for his work leading the team that assembled the first human genome sequence in the race to complete the Human Genome Project and subsequently for comparative genome analysis that deepens understanding the molecular function and evolution of the genome. He is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, professor of biomolecular engineering and director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz, director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) on the UC Santa Cruz campus, and a consulting professor at Stanford University School of Medicine and UC San Francisco Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department.

Personal facts

David Haussler
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1953
Nationality
United States
Education
Connecticut College
University of Colorado Boulder
Known for
Hidden Markov model
Human Genome Project

Search

Scientist

awards
Curt Stern Award
Dickson Prize
Weldon Memorial Prize
ISCB Senior Scientist Awards
doctoral advisor
doctoral student
Adam C. Siepel
Field of study
Artificial intelligence
Bioinformatics
Genomics
notable student
Postdoctoral research

David Haussler on Wikipedia

External resources

  1. http://cbse.soe.ucsc.edu
  2. http://genome10k.org
  3. http://search.proquest.com/docview/303058425
  4. http://www.hhmi.org/scientists/david-haussler
  5. https://cbse.soe.ucsc.edu/research/global_alliance
  6. https://genomics.soe.ucsc.edu/haussler