Judith Blake | |
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Born | Judith Anne Blake |
Education | University of Connecticut (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD) |
Known for | Gene Ontology Mouse Genome Informatics |
Awards | ISCB Fellow (2020) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genome evolution Biomedical ontologies Mouse Genetics[1] |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard, Anolis grahami (1981) |
Doctoral advisor | Ernest Edward Williams |
Website | www |
Judith Anne Blake is a computational biologist at the Jackson Laboratory and Professor of Mammalian Genetics.[1][2][3][4][5]
Blake completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1974 at the University of Connecticut. She moved to Harvard University for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1978 followed by a PhD in 1981.[6] Her PhD investigated chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard Anolis grahami and was supervised by Ernest Edward Williams.[4]
Blake's research interests are in genome evolution, biomedical ontologies and mouse genetics.[1] She is one of the leaders and founding principal investigators (PIs) of the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium[7][8][9] and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD).[10]
Blake was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology.[11]