George M. Church

PhD students from (* = main training programs for our group):
• Harvard: HILS (Biophysics* , BBS* , MCB)
• MIT: HST*, Chemistry, EE/CS, CSBi, Physics, Math.
• Boston Univ.: Bioinformatics
• Cambridge-UK: Genetics

• Publications , NIH_CV , Other lab members
• Technology transfer & Commercial Scientific Advisory Roles
• Personal info -- News
• Director of Research Centers: DOE-Biofuels, CEGS, PGP, Wyss Inst BioMaterials Evolution
• Related Research Centers, MolTools

Biographical Sketch (105 words):
Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Director of the Center for Computational Genetics. 1984 Harvard PhD included the first direct genomic sequencing method, molecular multiplexing tags, which lead to automation & software used at Genome Therapeutics Corp. for the first commercial genome sequence -- pathogen, Helicobacter in 1994. This multiplex solid-phase sequencing evolved into polonies (1999), ABI-SOLiD (2005) & open-source Polonator.org (2007). Innovations in homologous recombination and array-based DNA reading & writing lead to current research in Human Genomics (Complete Genomics, PersonalGenomes, 23andme, Knome) & synthetic biology (SynBERC, JouleBio, LS9) & new ethics/security strategies.