Martin Reese, 2008-05-08

Item — Box: AV03, miniDV: CSHL1135

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Oral History | Martin Reese

Scope and Contents

Martin Reese discusses the following in his interview: GENOME RESEARCH: Whole Genome Analysis:Involvement in Genomics; Whole Genome Analysis: Identifying Disease Genes; Whole Genome Analysis: Jim Watson's Genome; Whole Genome Analysis: Looking for Genetic Variation; Whole Genome Analysis: Pharmacogenomics Markers; Whole Genome Analysis: Starting Omicia, Inc.; Whole Genome Analysis: The Data; The Future of Whole Genome Analysis.

Dates

Creation: 2008-05-08

Creator

Reese, Martin G. (Interviewee, Person)
Pollock, Ludmila (Interviewer, Person)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Library and Archives (Publisher, Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Portions of this collection have been digitized and are available online: https://library.cshl.edu/oralhistory/. Select tapes have been digitized thanks to support from CLIR Recordings at Risk Grant awarded in 2021, these tapes are available for research online via our Oral History Website and in person at CSHL Archives. Please contact CSHL Archives archives@cshl.edu with any questions regarding availability.

Biographical / Historical

Martin Reese is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Fabric Genomics, previously known as Omicia.

Dr. Martin Reese is an internationally recognized expert in medical informatics and bioinformatics with a track record of bringing strong, grounded scientific knowledge to the corporate sector. Prior to founding Omicia, Dr. Reese served as Vice President of Discovery Informatics for ValiGen. He organized the state-of-the-art Genome Annotation Assessment Project and was a member of the Berkeley Drosophila Genome Project. This project provided the essential proof-of-concept platform for Celera's famous shotgun sequencing technology, which is now internationally recognized - as driving a new standard of excellence in sequencing. It was while at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories that Dr. Reese developed gene-finding algorithms for the Human Genome Project. He holds a Masters degree in Medical Informatics from the University of Heidelberg and a Ph.D. in Genetics jointly from the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Hohenheim, Germany.

http://www.omicia.com/management.html#martin