Chris Sander (scientist)

Chris Sander

Chris Sander speaking at ISMB in 2010

Born|

Germany

Alma mater| University of Berlin
University of California, Berkeley[1]
Known for| Bioinformatics
Computational biology
Cancer genomics[2]
Awards|

* ISCB Senior Scientist Award (2010)[3]
* DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences (2018)

Scientific career
Thesis| Analytic properties of bound state wave functions (1975)
Doctoral students|

* Burkhard Rost [citation needed]
* Christos Ouzounis[4]
* Peer Bork[citation needed]

Website| www.sanderlab.org#/people/chrissander

Chris Sander is a computational biologist based at the Dana-Farber Cancer Center. Previously he was chair of the Computational Biology Programme at the Memorial Sloan–Kettering Cancer Center in New York City .[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] Recently, he moved his lab to the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute[12] and the Cell Biology Department at Harvard Medical School.[13]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Research
* 2.1 Awards and Honours
* 3 Personal life
* 4 References

## Education

Sander originally trained as a physicist receiving his undergraduate degree from the University of Berlin in 1967.[14] After a period studying at the University of California, Berkeley and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen,[14][15] he gained his PhD degree in theoretical physics from the State University of New York in 1975. His thesis was titled Analytic properties of bound state wave functions.[16]

## Research

Sander credits his move from theoretical physics to computational biology to Fred Sanger's 1977 landmark paper in Nature,[17] in which the nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage φX174 was published.[14] Sander has made many contributions to the field of structural bioinformatics including developing tools such as the Families of Structurally Similar Proteins (FSSP) database[18] and the DSSP algorithm for assigning secondary structure to the amino acids of a protein, given the atomic-resolution coordinates of that protein.[19]

Sander has also worked at the European Bioinformatics Institute, has served as chief information officer for the biopharmaceutical company Millennium Pharmaceuticals and has been an advisor to IBM's Deep Computing Initiative, which produced the Deep Blue chess computer.[20]

### Awards and Honours

Sander is a former Executive Editor for the journal Bioinformatics. In 2014 he was appointed one of the first Honorary Editors of Bioinformatics.[21]

Sander was awarded the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award in 2010.[15] He was awarded the 2018 DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences.[22]

## Personal life

Sander is the brother of German actor Otto Sander.[23]

## References

1. ↑ "At Work: Computational Biology Program Chair Chris Sander | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center". Archived from the original on 2013-08-20. https://www.webcitation.org/6J0uqcrtH?url=http://www.mskcc.org/research/lab/chris-sander/work.
2. ↑ Holm, L.; Sander, C. (1993). "Protein Structure Comparison by Alignment of Distance Matrices". Journal of Molecular Biology 233 (1): 123–138. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1993.1489. PMID 8377180. https://semanticscholar.org/paper/3d38ee3da5fcfd2e79ce2b706a8b53268268160d.
3. ↑ McKay, B. M.; Sansom, C. (2010). "2010 ISCB Overton Prize Awarded to Steven E. Brenner". PLoS Computational Biology 6 (6): e1000831. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000831. PMID 20585610. Bibcode: 2010PLSCB...6E0831M.
4. ↑ Ouzounis, Christos (1993). The role of sequence conservation in the prediction of protein structure (PhD thesis). University of York. OCLC 53486615. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.387193.
5. ↑ {{DBLP}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
6. ↑ {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
7. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic
8. ↑ Sander, Chris A.'s publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (Subscription content?)
9. ↑ John, B.; Enright, A. J.; Aravin, A.; Tuschl, T.; Sander, C.; Marks, D. S. (2004). "Human MicroRNA Targets". PLoS Biology 2 (11): e363. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020363. PMID 15502875.
10. ↑ Rost, B.; Sander, C. (1993). "Prediction of Protein Secondary Structure at Better than 70% Accuracy". Journal of Molecular Biology 232 (2): 584–599. doi:10.1006/jmbi.1993.1413. PMID 8345525.
11. ↑ Sander, C.; Schulz, G. E. (1979). "Degeneracy of the information contained in amino acid sequences: Evidence from overlaid genes". Journal of Molecular Evolution 13 (3): 245–252. doi:10.1007/BF01739483. PMID 228047. Bibcode: 1979JMolE..13..245S.
12. ↑ "Chris Sander, PhD - DF/HCC". http://www.dfhcc.harvard.edu/insider/member-detail/member/chris-sander-phd/.
13. ↑ "Chris Sander | Department of CELL BIOLOGY". https://cellbio.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/sander-0.
14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 Cite error: Invalid `<ref>` tag; no text was provided for refs named `work`
15. ↑ 15.0 15.1 "2010 Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award - Chris Sander". http://www.iscb.org/iscb-awards/1133.
16. ↑ "INIS Collection Search - Single Result". https://inis.iaea.org/search/searchsinglerecord.aspx?recordsFor=SingleRecord&RN=7274616#. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
17. ↑ Sanger, F.; Air, G. M.; Barrell, B. G.; Brown, N. L.; Coulson, A. R.; Fiddes, J. C.; Hutchison, C. A.; Slocombe, P. M. et al. (24 February 1977). "Nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage φX174 DNA". Nature 265 (5596): 687–695. doi:10.1038/265687a0. PMID 870828. Bibcode: 1977Natur.265..687S.
18. ↑ "A database of protein structure families with common folding motifs". Protein Science 1 (12): 1691–1698. 1992. doi:10.1002/pro.5560011217. PMID 1304898.
19. ↑ Kabsch, W.; Sander, C. (1983). "Dictionary of protein secondary structure: Pattern recognition of hydrogen-bonded and geometrical features". Biopolymers 22 (12): 2577–2637. doi:10.1002/bip.360221211. PMID 6667333.
20. ↑ "Bio-IT World: Horizons - Chris Sander". http://www.bio-itworld.com/archive/021003/horizons_manhattan.html. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
21. ↑ "15 years of "Bioinformatics"". Bioinformatics 30 (6): 747. 2014. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu076. PMID 24642573.
22. ↑ "DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences". http://www.asbmb.org/awards/delano/. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
23. ↑ Biography for Otto Sander on IMDb

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* David Haussler
* David Lipman
* Webb Miller
* David Sankoff
* Temple Smith
* Janet Thornton
* Michael Waterman

2010|

* Russ Altman
* Lawrence Hunter
* Eugene Myers
* Chris Sander
* Gary Stormo
* Alfonso Valencia

2011|

* Michael Ashburner
* Phil Bourne
* Søren Brunak
* Richard Durbin

2012|

* Bonnie Berger
* Peter Karp
* Jill Mesirov
* Pavel Pevzner
* Ron Shamir
* Martin Vingron
* Gunnar von Heijne

2013|

* Pierre Baldi
* David Eisenberg
* Minoru Kanehisa
* Satoru Miyano
* Ruth Nussinov
* Steven Salzberg

2014|

* Amos Bairoch
* Ewan Birney
* Nir Friedman
* Robert Gentleman
* Andrej Šali

2015|

* Rolf Apweiler
* Cyrus Chothia
* Julio Collado-Vides
* Mark Gerstein
* Des Higgins
* Thomas Lengauer
* Michael Levitt
* Burkhard Rost

2016|

* Helen M. Berman
* Steven Brenner
* Dan Gusfield
* Barry Honig
* Janet Kelso
* Michal Linial
* Christine Orengo
* Aviv Regev
* Lincoln Stein
* Sarah Teichmann
* Anna Tramontano
* Shoshana Wodak
* Haim Wolfson

2017|

* Alex Bateman
* Andrea Califano
* Daphne Koller
* Anders Krogh
* William Noble
* Lior Pachter
* Olga Troyanskaya
* Tandy Warnow

2018|

* Patricia Babbitt
* Terry Gaasterland
* Hanah Margalit
* Yves Moreau
* Bernard Moret
* William Pearson
* Mona Singh
* Mike Steel

2019|

* Vineet Bafna
* Eleazar Eskin
* Xiaole Shirley Liu
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