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Jacques Beckmann


Jacques Beckmann

University of Lausanne

Biography

Jacques Beckmann is the Head of clinical bioinformatics at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB) from December 2012 till December 2016. He served previously for ten years as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Medical Genetics at the Faculty of Biology and Medicine of the Univ. of Lausanne as well as head of the Medical Genetics Service of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV). Previously, he held a chair as Professor at the Dept of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Inst of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Initially trained in molecular genetics he then moved to genetics. In the 1980s, together with Prof. M. Soller from the Hebrew Univ, they pioneered the use of marker-assisted genetic improvement in plants and animals, focusing on Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs). His interest shifted in 1990 to human genetics with a move to Paris, where he held successively senior research positions at the CEPH, Généthon (Evry), and finally the Centre National de Génotypage (CNG, Evry), where he was Deputy-Director. During those years he collaborated with Prof. D. Cohen, J. Weissenbach, M. Lathrop, J. Dausset and others and contributed significantly to the elaboration of genetic, physical and gene maps of the human genome, as well as to the positional cloning of a number of disease loci, many of which are involved in muscular dystrophy. Prof. Beckmann has published over 390 scientific peer-reviewed articles in molecular genetics, genetics and genomics, and has an ISI H-index of 86. He has served on the editorial boards of a number of scientific journals. His research interests include genomic disorders, pharmacogenetics as well as the genetic basis of complex traits.

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