Chris Sander (scientist)

Chris Sander

Chris Sander speaking at ISMB in 2010
Born Christian Sander
Institutions Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center
Rockefeller University
Cornell University
Weizmann Institute of Science[1]
Alma mater University of Berlin
University of California, Berkeley[2]
Thesis I. Interactions of Nucleic Acids II. Properties of T1 Ribonuclease (1971)
Doctoral students Burkhard Rost
Known for Bioinformatics
Computational biology
Cancer genomics[3]
Notable awards ISCB Senior Scientist Awards (2010)[4]
Website
www.mskcc.org/research/lab/chris-sander

Chris Sander is a Computational Biologist and chair of the Computational Biology Programme at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.[5][6][7][8][9][10][11]

Education

Sander originally trained as a physicist receiving his first degree from the University of Berlin in 1967.[2] Later he gained a PhD degree after studying at the State University of New York, the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and the University of California, Berkeley.[2][12]

Research

Sander has made many contributions to structural bioinformatics including developing tools such as FSSP[13] and DSSP.[14]

Roles and Honours

Sander is a former Executive Editor for the journal Bioinformatics. In 2014 he was appointed one of the first Honorary Editors of Bioinformatics.[15]

Sander was awarded the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award in 2010.[12]

Personal

Sander is brother of German actor Otto Sander.

References

  1. ↑ Lifson, Shneior; Sander, Christian (1979). "Antiparallel and parallel β-strands differ in amino acid residue preferences". Nature 282 (5734): 109–111. doi:10.1038/282109a0. PMID 503185.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "At Work: Computational Biology Program Chair Chris Sander | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center". Archived from the original on 2013-08-20.
  3. ↑ Holm, L.; Sander, C. (1993). "Protein Structure Comparison by Alignment of Distance Matrices". Journal of Molecular Biology 233 (1): 123–138. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1993.1489. PMID 8377180.
  4. ↑ McKay, B. M.; Sansom, C. (2010). "2010 ISCB Overton Prize Awarded to Steven E. Brenner". PLoS Computational Biology 6 (6): e1000831. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000831. PMC 2891695. PMID 20585610.
  5. ↑ Chris Sander's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
  6. ↑ Chris Sander's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  7. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  8. ↑ Chris Sander's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  9. ↑ John, B.; Enright, A. J.; Aravin, A.; Tuschl, T.; Sander, C.; Marks, D. S. (2004). "Human MicroRNA Targets". PLoS Biology 2 (11): e363. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020363. PMC 521178. PMID 15502875.
  10. ↑ Rost, B.; Sander, C. (1993). "Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure at Better than 70% Accuracy". Journal of Molecular Biology 232 (2): 584–599. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1993.1413. PMID 8345525.
  11. ↑ Sander, C.; Schulz, G. E. (1979). "Degeneracy of the information contained in amino acid sequences: Evidence from overlaid genes". Journal of Molecular Evolution 13 (3): 245–252. doi:10.1007/BF01739483. PMID 228047.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 http://www.iscb.org/iscb-awards/1133
  13. ↑ Holm L, Ouzounis C, Sander C, Tuparev G, Vriend G (1992). "A database of protein structure families with common folding motifs". Protein Science 1 (12): 1691–1698. doi:10.1002/pro.5560011217. PMC 2142138. PMID 1304898.
  14. ↑ Kabsch, W.; Sander, C. (1983). "Dictionary of protein secondary structure: Pattern recognition of hydrogen-bonded and geometrical features". Biopolymers 22 (12): 2577–2637. doi:10.1002/bip.360221211. PMID 6667333.
  15. ↑ "15 years of "Bioinformatics"". Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 30 (6): 747. 2014. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu076. PMID 24642573.