Judith Blake (scientist)

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Judith Anne Blake is a computational biologist at the Jackson Laboratory and Professor of Mammalian Genetics.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Judith Blake
Born	Judith Anne Blake
Education	University of Connecticut (BA) Harvard University (MA, PhD)
Known for	Gene Ontology Mouse Genome Informatics
Awards	ISCB Fellow (2020)
Scientific career
Fields	Genome evolution Biomedical ontologies Mouse Genetics[1]
Institutions	Jackson Laboratory University of Connecticut Tufts University University of Maine The Institute for Genomic Research Smithsonian Institution
Thesis	Chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard, Anolis grahami (1981)
Doctoral advisor	Ernest Edward Williams
Website	www.jax.org/research-and-faculty/faculty/judith-blake

Education

Blake completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1974 at the University of Connecticut. She moved to Harvard University for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1978 followed by a PhD in 1981.^[6] Her PhD investigated chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard Anolis grahami and was supervised by Ernest Edward Williams.^[4]

Career and research

Blake's research interests are in genome evolution, biomedical ontologies and mouse genetics.^[1] She is one of the leaders and founding principal investigators (PIs) of the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium^[7][8][9] and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD).^[10]

Awards and honors

Blake was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology.^[11]