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]

## Education[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

1. ^ a b Bock, Christoph (2008). Computational Epigenetics. mpg.de (PhD thesis). Saarland University. OCLC 472653426. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
2. ^ "Christoph Bock Group". cemm.at. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
3. ^ Christoph Bock publications indexed by Google Scholar
4. ^ a b c Fogg, Christiana N.; Kovats, Diane E.; Berger, Bonnie (2017). "2017 ISCB Overton Prize awarded to Christoph Bock". PLOS Computational Biology. 13 (6): e1005559. Bibcode:2017PLSCB..13E5559F. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005559. PMC 5493286. PMID 28665945.
5. ^ a b c "Christoph Bock". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
6. ^ "CRISPR meets single-cell sequencing in new screening method". Retrieved 23 July 2017.
7. ^ "Christoph Bock". www.medical-epigenomics.org. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
8. ^ "Genome Biology". Genome Biology. Retrieved 23 July 2017.

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* Germany

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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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