Paul M. Sharp

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Paul Sharp
MRIA
Born
Paul Martin Sharp

(1957-09-12) 12 September 1957 (age 66)[9]
Alma materUniversity of Edinburgh (BSc, PhD)
Known for
Awards
EMBO Member (1992)[1]
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisQuantitative genetics of Drosophila melanogaster - variation in male mating ability (1982)
Doctoral advisorAlan Robertson[5]
Doctoral studentsKenneth H. Wolfe[6][7]
Other notable studentsDesmond G. Higgins (postdoc)[8]
Websitewww.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/paul-sharp(ed91461c-d4f2-497d-8621-2ec9be212726).html

Paul Martin Sharp (born 1957)

MRIA[12][13] is Professor of Genetics at the University of Edinburgh, where he holds the Alan Robertson chair of genetics in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology.[14][15][16][17]

Education

Sharp was educated at the

PhD in 1982 for research using quantitative genetics on the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster supervised by Alan Robertson.[14][5]

Career and research

Sharp has held academic posts at

Trinity College, Dublin from 1982 to 1993,[4] the University of Nottingham from 1993 to 2007[4] and was appointed Professor at the University of Edinburgh in 2007.[4]

Sharp's research investigates the evolutionary origin of

chimpanzee faecal samples showed that HIV type 1 was transmitted to humans from a specific chimp population in West Africa in the early 20th century. Paul went on to examine his collection of ape faecal samples for plasmodium parasites, finding a likely candidate for the form that causes malaria in humans.[12][21]

In the eighties, Sharp collaborated with Desmond G. Higgins during the creation of CLUSTAL,[10][11] a suite of multiple sequence alignment programs that have become widely used and highly influential.[22] His research has been funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC).[23] His former doctoral students include Kenneth H. Wolfe.

Awards and honours

Sharp was elected member of the

Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2013.[12]

Personal life

Sharps's entry in

pteridology and, since 1967, supporting Nottingham Forest Football Club.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b "Paul M. Sharp University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom". Hedelberg: EMBO. Archived from the original on 19 January 2016.
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    PMID 3547335
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  3. ^ Paul M. Sharp publications indexed by Google Scholar Edit this at Wikidata
  4. ^
    ORCID 0000-0001-9771-543X
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    EThOS uk.bl.ethos.330579. Open access icon
  6. ^ Paul M. Sharp at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. OCLC 842511087
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  8. ^ "Paul M. Sharp: Computational Biology Tree". academictree.org.
  9. ^
    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.271679. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  10. ^
    PMID 3243435
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    PMID 2720464
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  12. ^ a b c d e Anon (2013). "Professor Paul Sharp FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  13. ^ a b "Royal Society of Edinburgh Fellows as of 2016-05-13" (PDF). Edinburgh: Royal Society of Edinburgh. Archived from the original (PDF) on 30 March 2016.
  14. ^ a b "Professor Paul M. Sharp, FRS, FRSE, MRIA: Alan Robertson Chair of Genetics". Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016.
  15. PMID 22229120
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  16. ^ "Staff profiles: Institute of Evolutionary Biology". Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015.
  17. ^ Paul M. Sharp publications from Europe PubMed Central
  18. ^ a b "Paul Martin Sharp BSc, PhD (Edin 1979, 1982). FRS, FRSE". Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. 19 October 2015. Archived from the original on 13 April 2016.
  19. ^ Paul M. Sharp publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  20. PMID 10649986
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  21. S2CID 4432185
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  22. PMID 25355343
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  23. ^ "UK Government grants awarded to Paul M. Sharp". Swindon: Research Councils UK. Archived from the original on 12 April 2016.
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