Christopher Burge

Christopher Boyce Burge (born May 26, 1968) is an American computational biologist and a Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is known for his research on gene expression regulation, particularly RNA processing mechanisms like RNA splicing, polyadenylation, and microRNA-mediated regulation, using computational and experimental approaches.

Education Burge completed his Bachelor of Science at Stanford University in 1990, and continued graduate studies in computational biology at Stanford University, gaining his PhD in 1997 His PhD thesis was titled Identification of genes in human genomic DNA.

Research From 1997 to 1999 Burge worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Phillip Allen Sharp, working in the fields of RNA splicing and molecular evolution. Burge joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 as a Bioinformatics Fellow. He became Assistant Professor in 2002, Associate Professor in 2004, was tenured in 2006, and was promoted to full Professor in 2010. He has been an Associate Member of the Broad Institute since 2004. regulation.

Burge has also served on the editorial boards of the academic journals RNA, PLOS Computational Biology, BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics.