Jasper Donald Rine (born 1953) is an American scientist, a member of the

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,Jasper Rine at

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website and a Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

. Rine received his

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from the

State University of New York at Albany The State University of New York at Albany, commonly referred to as the University at Albany, UAlbany or SUNY Albany, is a public research university with campuses in Albany, Rensselaer, and Guilderland, New York. Founded in 1844, it is one ...

in 1975 and his

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molecular genetics Molecular genetics is a sub-field of biology that addresses how differences in the structures or expression of DNA molecules manifests as variation among organisms. Molecular genetics often applies an "investigative approach" to determine the ...

from the

University of Oregon The University of Oregon (UO, U of O or Oregon) is a public research university in Eugene, Oregon. Founded in 1876, the institution is well known for its strong ties to the sports apparel and marketing firm Nike, Inc, and its co-founder, billion ...

in 1979. He then joined the Berkeley faculty in 1982. He is also a former director of the Human Genome Center at

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States Department of Energy National Labs, United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, t ...

and a fellow of the

American Academy of Microbiology The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. It wa ...

, an honorific leadership group of the

American Society for Microbiology The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. It ...

. As a graduate student with

Ira Herskowitz Ira Herskowitz (July 14, 1946 – April 28, 2003) was an American phage and yeast geneticist geneticist who studied genetic regulatory circuits and mechanisms. He was particularly noted for his work on mating type switching and cellular different ...

Rine codiscovered yeast SIR proteins, conserved chromatin organizing proteins that modulate gene expression across taxa. As a professor, Rine was also one of the organizers of the Dog Genome Project. He was named a

Howard Hughes Medical Institute The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) is an American non-profit medical research organization based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. It was founded in 1953 by Howard Hughes, an American business magnate, investor, record-setting pilot, engineer, fil ...

professor in 2006. His work focuses on

epigenetics In biology, epigenetics is the study of stable phenotypic changes (known as ''marks'') that do not involve alterations in the DNA sequence. The Greek prefix '' epi-'' ( "over, outside of, around") in ''epigenetics'' implies features that are "o ...

and understanding the impact of human genetic variation.

Stolen laptop incident

In 2005, a video was posted online depicting Rine speaking before a class and explaining that his laptop had been stolen. He warned the thief, whom Rine believed to be one of the students, that there was extremely sensitive data on the laptop from various sources, and that as a result the thief could end up serving time in federal prison. This was a bluff, as the laptop merely held confidential student information. The laptop was later recovered, and a man from San Francisco was subsequently arrested and charged by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office with possession of stolen property.

Honors and awards

* 2015 president of the

Genetics Society of America The Genetics Society of America (GSA) is a scholarly membership society of more than 5,500 genetics researchers and educators, established in 1931. The Society was formed from the reorganization of the Joint Genetics Sections of the American Soc ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rine, Jasper 1953 births Living people 21st-century American biologists University of California, Berkeley faculty University at Albany, SUNY alumni University of Oregon alumni Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences