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WILL FAIRBROTHER
Brown University
Room 404, 70 Ship Street
Providence, RI 02912
Office (401) 863-6215
Lab Phone (401)
863-6329
EDUCATION
Brown University
Providence, RI
Assistant Professor (2005-present)
Department of Molecular Biology, Cellular Biology and
Biochemistry
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
PhRMA Informatics Fellow (2003-2005)
Center for Cancer Research
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge,
MA
Postdoctoral Associate (March 2001-2003)
Center for Cancer Research
Columbia University
New York City, NY
PhD (1994-2000) Dept of Biological
Sciences
Thesis: Genomic Sequences that Inhibit
Splicing
Columbia University
New York City, NY
MS, MPhil (1993-1994) Dept of Biological
Sciences
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH.
BA (1986-1990) Chemistry major
Thesis: A Characterization of the
Molybdinum 2-Phenylazopyridine Bond as Function of
Differential Substitution on the Pyridal Ring
SERVICE
Invited member of the program committee
for the 13th Annual Intelligent Systems in
Molecular Biology conference (ISMB -2005). International
Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
CCMB Advisory Committee
(2005-2006) Brown
University
CCMB Faculty Search Committee (2005-2006)
Brown University
Mentoring Student Research
Brown University
Mentored four Brown undergraduate
students in Computational Biology projects
AWARDS
Richard B Salomon Award “Discovering
Combinatorial Codes in Splicing “ (2005-2006)
Informatics Postdoctoral Fellowship,
PhRMA Foundation (2003- 2005)
James Howard McGregor Teaching Award ,
Columbia University, 2000
BP Research Experience Fellowship,
Oberlin College, summer 1989
PLATFORM
PRESENTATIONS
“Predictive Identification of Exonic
Splicing Enhancers in Human Genomic Sequences” Genome
Sequencing and Biology Conference Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratories
“Natural Selection and Exonic Splicing
Enhancers” Eukaryotic mRNA Processing Conference
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories
PUBLICATIONS
Nicole Pfarr, Dirk Prawitt, Michael
Kirschfink, Claudia Schroff, Markus Knuf, Pirmin
Habermehl, Wilma Mannhardt, Fred Zepp, William
Fairbrother, Michael Loos, Christopher B. Burge and
Joachim Pohlenz " Linking C5 deficiency to an exonic
splicing enhancer mutation.” J Immunol. 2005 Apr
1;174(7):4172-7.
Fairbrother WG,
Holste D, Burge CB, Sharp PA. “Single nucleotide
polymorphism-based validation of exonic splicing
enhancers” PloS Biol.2004 Sep ;2(9):pg268.
Fairbrother WG,
Yeo GW, Yeh R, Goldstein P, Mawson M,
Sharp PA, Burge CB. ”RESCUE-ESE identifies candidate
exonic splicing enhancers in vertebrate exons.”Nucleic
Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32:pg187.
Fairbrother WG,
Yeh RF, Sharp PA, Burge CB. “Predictive identification
of exonic splicing enhancers in human genes.” Science.
2002 Aug 9;297(5583):1007-13.
Fairbrother WG,
Chasin L. “Human genomic sequences that inhibit
splicing” (Mol. Cell Biol. Sept. 2000 Vol
20(18),:6816-25)
Ackermann MN, Fairbrother WG, Amin
NS, Deodene CJ, Lamborg CM, Martin
PT.“Tetracarbonylmolybdenum complexes of 2-(phenylazo)-pyridine
ligands. Correlations of molybdenum-95 chemical shifts
with electronic, infrared, and electrochemical
properties.”, J. Organometal. Chem. 1996, 523, 145.
Fairbrother WG.
“RESCUE-ESE Web server”
http://genes.mit.edu/burgelab/rescue-ese/
Fairbrother WG.
“Sunny Days for Solar Cells” Chemical Business 1990
Fairbrother WG.
“Difficult R&D Interface” Chemical Business 1991
TEACHING
EXPERIENCE
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Instructor, Genetics of Human
Susceptibility to Infection (Course 7.347)
Designed curriculum and led seminar class
in discussion of original research papers. Delivered
short introductory lectures at the end of each class.
Columbia University
New York, NY
Head Teaching Assistant, Genetics
Proctored exams, maintained grade
spreadsheet, addressed students’ questions and needs.
Taught review sessions and graded exams.
Columbia University
New York, NY
Teaching Assistant, Genetics,
Contemporary Biology
Photocopied exams, taught review and
topic sessions, graded exams.
Columbia University Double Discovery
Program
New York, NY
Instructor, Pre-Calculus, Physics
Taught Harlem area high school students
pre-college science classes. Designed exams and quizzes.
Graded student work.
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