Christoph Bock
NationalityGerman
Alma mater
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsBioinformatics
InstitutionsMax Planck Institute for Informatics
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Medical University of Vienna
Broad Institute
ThesisComputational Epigenetics (2008)
Doctoral advisorThomas Lengauer[1]
Websitecemm.at/research/groups/christoph-bock-group

Christoph Bock is a German bioinformatician and principal investigator at the Research Center for Molecular Medicine (CeMM) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and a visiting professor at the Medical University of Vienna.[2][3]

Education

Bock carried out his undergraduate studies at the University of Mannheim, focusing on computer science and business information, with an emphasis on machine learning.[4]

Bock gained his PhD in 2008 from Saarland University for research carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics on computational epigenetics supervised by Thomas Lengauer.[4][1]

Research and career

Following his PhD, he undertook postdoctoral research with Alexander Meissner at the Broad Institute, where he contributed to the NIH Roadmap Epigenomics Project.[5]

Bock joined CeMM as a principal investigator in 2012. His research focuses on the application of machine learning and biostatistics to computational epigenetics. He is also interested in the application of bioinformatics to epigenetic diagnosis and personalised medicine.[5] Bock's lab has explored integrating technologies to efficiently assess the impact of many genes in gene regulation. His lab has combined CRISPR genome editing with single-cell RNA-seq to create the CROP-seq method, which enables high-throughput analysis of gene regulation.[6]

Beyond his work at CeMM, he has also been a principal investigator of BLUEPRINT, a member organisation of the International Human Epigenome Consortium.[5]

Awards and honors

Bock was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal by the Max Planck Society in 2009: this award recognises outstanding PhD theses.[7]

In 2017, Bock was awarded the Overton Prize by the International Society for Computational Biology, for his significant contributions to computational biology research.[4]

As of 2017, Bock serves on the editorial board of the Genome Biology journal.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Bock, Christoph (2008). Computational Epigenetics. mpg.de (PhD thesis). Saarland University. OCLC 472653426. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "Christoph Bock Group". cemm.at. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Christoph Bock publications indexed by Google Scholar
  4. 1 2 3 Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E.; Berger, Bonnie (2017). "2017 ISCB Overton Prize awarded to Christoph Bock". PLOS Computational Biology. 13 (6): e1005559. Bibcode:2017PLSCB..13E5559F. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005559. PMC 5493286. PMID 28665945.
  5. 1 2 3 "Christoph Bock". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  6. ↑ "CRISPR meets single-cell sequencing in new screening method". Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  7. ↑ "Christoph Bock". www.medical-epigenomics.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  8. ↑ "Genome Biology". Genome Biology. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
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