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Gil McVean
Gil McVean at the Royal Society admissions day in London in 2016
Born
Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean

February 1973 (age 51)[9]
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
Institutions
ThesisAdaptation and conflict : the differences between the sexes in mammalian genome evolution (1998)
Doctoral advisorLaurence Hurst[2][3][4]
Other academic advisors
Doctoral students
Websitewww.well.ox.ac.uk/gil-mcvean

Gilean Alistair Tristram McVean (born 1973)[9] FRS[10] FMedSci is a professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford,[11] director of the Big Data Institute,[12] fellow of Linacre College, Oxford and co-founder and director at Genomics plc[9][13] He also co-chaired the 1000 Genomes Project analysis group.[14][15]

Education

Gilean McVean speaking at the 2010 GEM meeting at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute (WTSI), Hinxton.

From [16][17] McVean completed his PhD in the Department of Genetics, at the University of Cambridge supervised by Laurence Hurst[18][19] in 1998.[3][20]

Career and research

Following his PhD, McVean completed postdoctoral research at the University of Edinburgh from 1997 to 2000 supervised by Brian Charlesworth and Deborah Charlesworth.[21][22] From 2000-2004 he was a Royal Society University Research Fellow, in the Department of Statistics at Oxford, where he has also been a University lecturer in Mathematical Genetics since 2004 (reappointed in 2009 until retirement age).[23] In October 2006 he was appointed professor of statistical genetics at the University of Oxford.[24]

His research[25] focuses on population genetics, statistics[26] and evolutionary biology including the International HapMap Project,[27][28] recombination rates in the human genome[29] and the 1000 Genomes Project.[30][31] He developed a statistical method to look at recombination rate which helped to identify PRDM9 as a hotspot positioning gene.[32]

In 2014 with Peter Donnelly he co-founded Genomics plc, a genomics analysis company, as a corporate spin-off of the University of Oxford.[9]

He was appointed as acting director of the Big Data Institute at the University of Oxford.[when?][12]

Honours and awards

In 2006 he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize.[33][34]

In 2010 McVean was awarded the Francis Crick Medal and delivered that years lecture entitled "Our genomes, our history".[35]

In 2012 McVean was awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize.[36]

In 2013 McVean presented at TEDxWarwick with a talk entitled A Thousand Genomes a Thousand Stories.[37]

In may of 2014 McVean was elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organisation.[38]

McVean was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2016[10] and a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (FMedSci).[39][40]

References

  1. ^ http://royalsociety.org/awards/francis-crick-lecture/ Crick Lectures
  2. ^ Hurst, L.; McVean, G. (1996). "A difficult phase for introns-early. Molecular evolution". Current Biology. 6 (5): 533–536. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(02)00535-3. PMID 8805261.
  3. ^ a b McVean, Gilean Alistair Tristram (1998). Adaptation and conflict : the differences between the sexes in mammalian genome evolution (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 894602716.
  4. ^ "Students and post-docs past and present in the Hurst laboratory". University of Bath. Archived from the original on 2015-05-15.
  5. ^ Matieson, Iain (2013). Genes in space: Selection, association and variation in spatially structured populations (PDF) (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Open access icon
  6. ^ Auton, Adam (2007). The Estimation of Recombination Rates from Population Genetic Data (PDF) (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. Open access icon
  7. ^ Moutsianas, Loukas (2011). Imputation aided analysis of the association between autoimmune diseases and the MHC (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 820778016. Open access icon
  8. ^ McVean, Gil (2016). "McVean Group". stats.ox.ac.uk. Oxford: University of Oxford. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04.
  9. ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "Gilean MCVEAN Date of birth: February 1973". companieshouse.gov.uk. London: Companies House. Archived from the original on 2016-08-12.
  10. ^ a b Anon (2016). "Gilean McVean". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2016-04-29. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived September 25, 2015)
  11. ^ http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~mcvean/ McVean Group at the University of Oxford
  12. ^ a b "Gil McVean — Oxford Big Data Institute". www.bdi.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  13. ^ "Prof. Gil McVean - GENOMICS plc". Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  14. ^ "Oct 10: 1000 Genomes project - Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics". www.well.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  15. ^ Gil McVean publications from Europe PubMed Central
  16. ^ "Gil McVean | LinkedIn". www.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  17. ^ Gil McVean's ORCID 0000-0002-5012-4162
  18. ^ McVean, G.T.; Hurst, L.D. (1997). "Evidence for a selectively favourable reduction in the mutation rate of the X chromosome". Nature. 386 (6623): 388–392. doi:10.1038/386388a0. PMID 9121553.
  19. ^ Hurst, L.D.; McVean, G.T. (1996). "... And scandalous symbionts". Nature. 381 (6584): 650–651. doi:10.1038/381650a0. PMID 8649507.
  20. ^ http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/people/academic_staff/gilean_mcvean Gilean McVean Oxford University
  21. ^ Charlesworth, D.; Charlesworth, B.; McVean, G. (2001). "Genome sequences and evolutionary biology, a two-way interaction". Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 16 (5): 235–242. doi:10.1016/S0169-5347(01)02126-7. PMID 11301152.
  22. ^ "Oxford University Statistics | Professor Gilean McVean". www.stats.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  23. ^ "Oxford University Gazette, 14 May 2009: Examinations and Boards". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  24. ^ "Oxford University Gazette". www.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  25. ^ http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=gilean+mcvean Gilean McVean in Google Scholar
  26. ^ Reshef, D. N.; Reshef, Y. A.; Finucane, H. K.; Grossman, S. R.; McVean, G.; Turnbaugh, P. J.; Lander, E. S.; Mitzenmacher, M.; Sabeti, P. C. (2011). "Detecting Novel Associations in Large Data Sets". Science. 334 (6062): 1518–1524. doi:10.1126/science.1205438. PMC 3325791. PMID 22174245.
  27. ^ Frazer, K. A.; Frazer, D. G.; Ballinger, D. R.; Cox, D. A.; Hinds, L. L.; Stuve, R. A.; Gibbs, J. W.; Belmont, A.; Boudreau, P.; Hardenbol, S. M.; Leal, S.; Pasternak, D. A.; Wheeler, T. D.; Willis, F.; Yu, H.; Yang, C.; Zeng, Y.; Gao, H.; Hu, W.; Hu, C.; Li, W.; Lin, S.; Liu, H.; Pan, X.; Tang, J.; Wang, W.; Wang, J.; Yu, B.; Zhang, Q.; Zhang, H. (2007). "A second generation human haplotype map of over 3.1 million SNPs". Nature. 449 (7164): 851–861. doi:10.1038/nature06258. PMC 2689609. PMID 17943122.
  28. ^ Sabeti, Pardis C.; Varilly, Patrick; Fry, Ben; Lohmueller, Jason; Hostetter, Elizabeth; Cotsapas, Chris; Xie, Xiaohui; Byrne, Elizabeth H.; McCarroll, Steven A.; Gaudet, Rachelle; Schaffner, Stephen F.; Lander, Eric S.; The International HapMap Consortium; Frazer, Kelly A.; Ballinger, Dennis G.; Cox, David R.; Hinds, David A.; Stuve, Laura L.; Gibbs, Richard A.; Belmont, John W.; Boudreau, Andrew; Hardenbol, Paul; Leal, Suzanne M.; Pasternak, Shiran; Wheeler, David A.; Willis, Thomas D.; Yu, Fuli; Yang, Huanming; Zeng, Changqing Zeng; Gao, Yang (2007). "Genome-wide detection and characterization of positive selection in human populations". Nature. 449 (7164): 913–918. doi:10.1038/nature06250. PMC 2687721. PMID 17943131.
  29. ^ McVean, G. A. T.; Myers, S.; Hunt, S.; Deloukas, P.; Bentley, D.; Donnelly, P. (2004). "The Fine-Scale Structure of Recombination Rate Variation in the Human Genome". Science. 304 (5670): 581–584. doi:10.1126/science.1092500. PMID 15105499.
  30. ^ Danecek, P.; Auton, A.; Abecasis, G.; Albers, C. A.; Banks, E.; Depristo, M. A.; Handsaker, R.; Lunter, G.; Marth, G.; Sherry, S. T.; McVean, G.; Durbin, R.; 1000 Genomes Project Analysis Group (2011). "The Variant Call Format and VCFtools". Bioinformatics. 27 (15): 2156–2158. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr330. PMC 3137218. PMID 21653522.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  31. ^ Hernandez, R. D.; Kelley, J. L.; Elyashiv, E.; Melton, S. C.; Auton, A.; McVean, G.; 1000 Genomes Project; Sella, G.; Przeworski, M. (2011). "Classic Selective Sweeps Were Rare in Recent Human Evolution". Science. 331 (6019): 920–924. doi:10.1126/science.1198878. PMC 3669691. PMID 21330547.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  32. ^ "Gilean McVean". royalsociety.org. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  33. ^ "AWARDS MADE IN 2006" (PDF). The Leverhulme Trust. 2006. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  34. ^ "Philip Leverhulme Prizes 2006" (PDF). The Leverhulme Trust. 2006. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  35. ^ The Royal Society (2013-12-10), Our genomes, our history, retrieved 2016-07-12
  36. ^ "Professor Gil McVean awarded the Weldon Memorial Prize 2012 - Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics". www.well.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  37. ^ TEDx Talks (2013-03-29), A Thousand Genomes a Thousand Stories: Gilean McVean at TEDxWarwick 2013, retrieved 2016-07-12
  38. ^ User, Super. "EMBO enlarges its membership for 50th anniversary". www.embo.org. Retrieved 2016-07-12. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  39. ^ "New Fellows | Academy of Medical Sciences". www.acmedsci.ac.uk. Retrieved 2016-07-12.
  40. ^ "Professor Gil McVean elected a Fellow of the Royal Society - GENOMICS plc". Retrieved 2016-07-12.
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