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Biosketch:
Professor Brookes is an internationally recognized leader in genomics and bioinformatics, having made significant contributions to method development, disease and population genetics, DNA variation analysis, and database systems for organizing gene-disease information. His publications include over 140 peer-reviewed articles and reviews, and he has filed 6 patent applications on cloning, genotyping, and DNA analysis. Professor Brookes began his research career in the UK by achieving a first class degree in Medicine and Medical Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, followed by a molecular genetics PhD at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund and the University of London. He then established a research group in the MRC Human Genetics Unit in Edinburgh, where his team was involved in identifying the Presenilin-1 gene that causes Alzheimers Disease. Subsequently, he moved to Sweden, first to Uppsala University where he received Docenture in Genetics, and then to the Karolinska Institute where he was awarded both Docenture and a Professorship in Genome Research. Professor Brookes now holds a Chair in Bioinformatics and Genomics at the University of Leicester in the UK. There, he runs active method development and bioinformatics research groups, and he is Director of the institute's 'NUCLEUS' Genomics Services Core. He coordinates the European FP7-GEN2PHEN informatics project, and runs the 'GWAS
Central' (HGVbaseG2P) genetic association database. He is Editor & Chair of Publications Committee for the HUGO Journal, and a member of both the Public Population Project in Genomics (P3G) and the Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) Technical Working Group. Additionally, he is a Co-Founder and Board Member of the Human Genome Variation Society, and works as communicating Editor for Human Mutation.
Other significant achievements include launching and running the international Meeting series on "Human Genome Variation & Complex Genome Analysis" and inventing the Dynamic Allele-Specific Hybridization genotyping technology. |
