Gavin Sherlock is an
English-American professor of
genetics at
Stanford University
Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...
.
Research
Sherlock obtained a
Bachelor of Science degree in
genetics in 1991 from the
University of Manchester, where he also earned a
Ph.D. in
molecular biology three years later.
Sherlock was involved with the Stanford
Microarray Database, an early attempt to organize the extensive data generated by DNA
microarray analysis
A microarray is a multiplex lab-on-a-chip. Its purpose is to simultaneously detect the expression of thousands of genes from a sample (e.g. from a tissue). It is a two-dimensional array on a solid substrate—usually a glass slide or silicon t ...
. In 2012, Sherlock, along with Barbara Dunn and Daniel Kvitek, published a study of the influence of
yeast on the flavor of wine during fermentation.
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20th-century births
Living people
American geneticists
English geneticists
Alumni of the University of Manchester
Stanford University faculty
English emigrants to the United States
Year of birth missing (living people)
Place of birth missing (living people)
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