Biography
Rubin was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1950, attending the Boston Latin School. Rubin completed his undergraduate degree in biology at MIT, working at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory during the summer. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge, at the MRC in 1974, sequencing yeast RNA. He did postdoctoral work at Stanford University with David Hogness.
Rubin's first faculty position was at Harvard Medical School, followed by the Carnegie Institution of Washington; in 1983 he accepted a faculty appointment at the University of California, Berkeley. He was appointed a Howard Hughes Medical Investigator in 1987. He is currently the MacArthur Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development, in Berkeley's Department of Molecular and Cell Biology.
Rubin has taken a leading role in a number of high-profile biology projects. As the director of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project, he led the public effort to sequence Drosophila melanogaster. As Vice President of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rubin led the development of HHMI's Janelia Farm Research Campus, an independent biomedical research institute in Virginia.
His lab is particularly known for its development of genomics tools, studies of gene regulation, and other genome-wide research.
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