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Thomas Gingeras

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Thomas Gingeras
NationalityAmerican
Alma materCatholic University, New York University
Known for[ [identification of pervasive transcription of non-coding RNAs] [and] [ENCODE]]
Spouse(s)[Hillary Sussman], [Dorothy Gingeras]
Children[Ryan Gingeras, Alison Gingeras, Arie Gingeras]
Scientific career
FieldsGenomics
InstitutionsCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thesis Identification, isolation and characterization of the yolk proteins from Drosophila virilis and Drosophila melanogaster  (1976)

Thomas Raymond Gingeras is an American geneticist and professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. He is a leader of the National Institutes of Health's ENCODE project.[1][2] He worked at Affymetrix as Vice President of Biological Sciences before joining CSHL.[3][4] In 2019, he was listed as an ISI Highly Cited Researcher.[5] His son is the historian Ryan Gingeras.[6][7]

References

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  1. ^ "Thomas Gingeras". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  2. ^ Zimmer, Carl (2008-11-10). "Now: The Rest of the Genome". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  3. ^ "What is a Gene? - How ENCODE is Redefining Genetic Information - Thomas Gingeras". PSW Science. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  4. ^ Coghaln, Andy (2004-02-21). "Our genome 'reads' junk as well as genes". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  5. ^ "CSHL investigators rank among world's most highly cited". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  6. ^ Ryan Gingeras [@nords41] (30 January 2020). "I just discovered, thanks to Google Scholar, that 327 works cite something I've written. My father, by contrast, has been cited in 85,977 works. Seems a gotta a lot of work to do to catch up to my old man" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ Gingeras, Ryan (2009). Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923. OUP Oxford. p. ix. ISBN 978-0-19-156802-2.
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