Professor Andrew Sharp seminar

Professor Andrew Sharp

Andy completed his PhD with Pat Jacobs in 2003 at The Wessex Regional Genetics Lab in Salisbury, then spent 4 years as a Postdoc in the laboratory of Evan Eichler in Seattle, USA before moving to the University of Geneva, Switzerland where he was a Marie Curie Fellow. For the past 15 years he has run a human genomics research lab at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York where he is a Professor of Genetics. Andy’s work has included some of the seminal work on structural genome variation, including discovery and characterization of many recurrent microdeletion/duplication syndromes, such as those at 1q21, 15q13, and 17q21, in addition to the use of epigenome profiling as a tool to study the human genome. More recently his lab has focused on characterizing the role of tandem repeat variation in the human genome. Fun fact: Despite running a successful bioinformatics lab, he has never written a line of code in his life!