Thomas Gingeras | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | [[Catholic 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 | |
Fields | Genomics |
Institutions | Cold 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]