Nationality British Known for SMART Role Biologist | Name Chris Ponting Residence England, United Kingdom | |
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Thesis Structural Studies of Plasminogen and Related Proteins (1992) Doctoral students Duc-Quang NguyenJasmina PonjavicTania Wei Ling OhVictoria Jane PhilbinNicholas J. Dickens Education University of British Columbia, University of Oxford | ||
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Christopher Paul Ponting is a British computational biologist, specializing in the evolution and function of genes and genomes. He is currently Professor of Genomics at the University of Oxford and group leader in the MRC Functional Genomics Unit, and is affiliated with the Oxford Centre for Gene Function, and Oxford's Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics.
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Education
After receiving his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Science in physics from University of Oxford and the University of British Columbia, respectively, he returned to Oxford, completing his Doctor of Philosophy in biophysics in 1992 on structural studies of plasminogen.
Research
Ponting contributed to the Human Genome Project, and participated in sequence comparison for the mouse, rat, chicken, dog, opossum, and platypus Genome Projects. He has also used comparative genomics to contribute directly to the understanding of chromatin structure and the genetics of numerous conditions including asthma, obesity, Alzheimer's disease, retinitis pigmentosa, muscular dystrophies, and Aicardi-Goutieres syndrome.