W. Richard Mccombie PhD

W. Richard McCombie, PhD., is a Professor at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York. He received his B.A. in Biology from Wabash College and his PhD. in Cellular and Molecular Biology in the Health Sciences from the University of Michigan. As a Senior Staff Fellow in Craig Venter’s section at the National Institutes of Health, he was a leader of one of the first groups to carry out large-scale automated sequencing of genomic DNA and helped to organize the first large-scale EST (expressed sequence tag) sequencing projects. He has been on the faculty at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory since 1992 and was named a professor in 2001. Professor McCombie’s lab has contributed to the efforts to sequence the genomes of several organisms, including the flowering plant Arabidopsis thaliana, the fission yeast S. pombe, rice, corn, wheat, mouse and human.