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]

Thomas Gingeras
NationalityAmerican
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
FieldsGenomics
InstitutionsCold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Thesis Identification, isolation and characterization of the yolk proteins from Drosophila virilis and Drosophila melanogaster  (1976)

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  1. ^ "Thomas Gingeras". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  2. ^ Zimmer, Carl (2008-11-10). "Now: The Rest of the Genome". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  3. ^ "What is a Gene? - How ENCODE is Redefining Genetic Information - Thomas Gingeras". PSW Science. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  4. ^ Coghaln, Andy (2004-02-21). "Our genome 'reads' junk as well as genes". New Scientist. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  5. ^ "CSHL investigators rank among world's most highly cited". Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. 2019-12-11. Retrieved 2020-02-22.
  6. ^ Ryan Gingeras [@nords41] (January 30, 2020). "I just discovered, thanks to Google Scholar, that 327 works cite something I've written. My father, by contrast, has been cited in 85,977 works. Seems a gotta a lot of work to do to catch up to my old man" (Tweet). Retrieved 8 January 2021 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ Gingeras, Ryan (2009). Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire 1912-1923. OUP Oxford. p. ix. ISBN 978-0-19-156802-2.

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