Christoph Bock is a German bioinformatician and principal investigator at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a visiting professor at the Medical University of Vienna.[2][3]
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| Nationality | German |
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| Fields | Bioinformatics |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Informatics Austrian Academy of Sciences Medical University of Vienna Broad Institute |
| Thesis | Computational Epigenetics (2008) |
| Doctoral advisor | Thomas Lengauer[1] |
| Website | cemm |
Education
editBock carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Mannheim, focusing on computer science and business information, with an emphasis on machine learning.[4]
Bock gained his PhD in 2008 from Saarland University for research carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics on computational epigenetics supervised by Thomas Lengauer.[4][1]
Research and career
editFollowing his PhD, he undertook postdoctoral research with Alexander Meissner at the Broad Institute, where he contributed to the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project.[5]
Bock joined CeMM as a principal investigator in 2012.[citation needed] His research focuses on the application of machine learning and biostatistics to computational epigenetics. He is also interested in the application of bioinformatics to epigenetic diagnosis and personalised medicine.[5] Bock's lab has explored integrating technologies to efficiently assess the impact of many genes in gene regulation. His lab has combined CRISPR genome editing with single-cell RNA-seq to create the CROP-seq method, which enables high-throughput analysis of gene regulation.[6]
Beyond his work at CeMM, he has also been a principal investigator of BLUEPRINT, a member organisation of the International Human Epigenome Consortium.[5]
Awards and honors
editBock was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society in 2009: this award recognises outstanding PhD theses.[7]
In 2017, Bock was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology, for his significant contributions to computational biology research.[4]
As of 2017[update], Bock serves on the editorial board of the Genome Biology journal.[8]
References
edit- ^ a b Bock, Christoph (2008). Computational Epigenetics. mpg.de (PhD thesis). Saarland University. OCLC 472653426. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ "Christoph Bock Group". cemm.at. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ Christoph Bock publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ a b c Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E.; Berger, Bonnie (2017). "2017 ISCB Overton Prize awarded to Christoph Bock". PLOS Computational Biology. 13 (6): e1005559. Bibcode:2017PLSCB..13E5559F. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005559. PMC 5493286. PMID 28665945.
- ^ a b c "Christoph Bock". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ "CRISPR meets single-cell sequencing in new screening method". Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ "Christoph Bock". www.medical-epigenomics.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
- ^ "Genome Biology". Genome Biology. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
