Bob Waterston
Hugh Robert Waterston ( born September 17, 1943 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American geneticist and professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington.
Life
Waterston earned a bachelor's degree in 1965 from Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, and in 1972 both an MD as well as a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. As a postdoctoral fellow he worked with Sydney Brenner at the Medical Research Council (MRC ) of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England. 1976 Waterston has joined the faculty at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. During another stay at the MRC in 1985, he worked with John Sulston. In 2003, Waterston at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and is now (as of 2011 ) as Professor of Genetics at the same department before.
Work
Waterston led the project for the genome sequencing of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans - the first multicellular organism to have its genome sequenced. Waterston also made important contributions to the genome sequencing of the human (Human Genome Project), where he fought to protect public access to genomic information. He pioneered the genetic analysis of muscle.