David Haussler is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a United States non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded by the American businessman Howard Hughes in 1953. It is one of the largest private funding organizations for biological and medical research in the United...

 Investigator. He is also Professor of Biomolecular Engineering and Director of the Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering at the University of California, Santa Cruz

University of California, Santa Cruz

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; director of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences

The California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences is a nonprofit research and technology commercialization institute spanning three University of California campuses in the San Francisco Bay Area: UC Berkeley, UCSF, and UC Santa Cruz...

 (QB3) on the UC Santa Cruz campus; and a consulting professor at Stanford University

Stanford University

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 School of Medicine and UC San Francisco Biopharmaceutical Sciences Department.

David Haussler received his Ph.D. in computer science from University of Colorado at Boulder

University of Colorado at Boulder

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 in 1982. He is member of National Academy of Sciences

United States National Academy of Sciences

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 and member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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He was recently profiled by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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 and also in Nature Biotechnology

Nature Biotechnology

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, describing his lab's significant contributions to the Human Genome Project

Human Genome Project

The Human Genome Project is an international scientific research project with a primary goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of identifying and mapping the approximately 20,000–25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional...

and his work on genome evolution.

External links

• David Haussler on the Genome 10K Project - Interview on the 7th Avenue Project radio show