Christoph Bock

Nationality| German
Alma mater|

* University of Mannheim
* Saarland University (PhD)

Awards|

* Otto Hahn Medal (2009)
* Overton Prize (2017)

Scientific career
Fields| Bioinformatics
Institutions| Max Planck Institute for Informatics
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Medical University of Vienna
Broad Institute
Thesis| Computational Epigenetics (2008)
Doctoral advisor| Thomas Lengauer[1]
Website| cemm.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]

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Research and career
* 2.1 Awards and honors
* 3 References

## 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.[citation needed] 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[update], Bock serves on the editorial board of the Genome Biology journal.[8]

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bock, Christoph (2008). Computational Epigenetics. mpg.de (PhD thesis). Saarland University. OCLC 472653426. Retrieved 23 July 2017. `{{cite thesis}}`: Cite has empty unknown parameter: `|1=` (help)
2. ↑ "Christoph Bock Group" (in en). http://cemm.at/research/groups/christoph-bock-group/. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
3. ↑ {{Google Scholar id}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E.; Berger, Bonnie (2017). "2017 ISCB Overton Prize awarded to Christoph Bock". PLOS Computational Biology 13 (6): e1005559. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005559. PMID 28665945.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Christoph Bock". https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2017-program/keynotes/christoph-bock. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
6. ↑ "CRISPR meets single-cell sequencing in new screening method". https://phys.org/news/2017-01-crispr-single-cell-sequencing-screening-method.html. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
7. ↑ "Christoph Bock" (in en-gb). http://www.medical-epigenomics.org/meg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=77&catid=82&Itemid=477. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
8. ↑ "Genome Biology" (in en). https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/about/editorial-board. Retrieved 23 July 2017.

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Winners of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Overton Prize

Laureates|

* 2001 Christopher Burge
* 2002 David Baker
* 2003 Jim Kent
* 2004 Uri Alon
* 2005 Ewan Birney
* 2006 Mathieu Blanchette
* 2007 Eran Segal
* 2008 Aviv Regev
* 2009 Trey Ideker
* 2010 Steven E. Brenner
* 2011 Olga Troyanskaya
* 2012 Ziv Bar-Joseph
* 2013 Gonçalo Abecasis
* 2014 Dana Pe'er
* 2015 Curtis Huttenhower
* 2016 Debora Marks
* 2017 Christoph Bock
* 2018 Cole Trapnell
* 2019 Christophe Dessimoz

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