Terry Furey, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
"Next-generation high-throughput technologies enable us to explore gene expression and chromatin structure genome-wide at unprecedented resolution."Terrence Furey is an IGSP Scholar and an Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics with a secondary appointment in the Department of Computer Science. He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2002 in the laboratory of David Haussler. After spending an additional two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at UCSC, he joined the IGSP faculty in the summer of 2004.
His research at UCSC included computational analysis and validation of the human genome sequence as a member of the International Human Genome Sequencing Consortium, and he contributed to the initial analysis of the mouse, rat, and chicken genomes. His work has spanned a variety of genome annotation and genome mapping challenges: including the prediction of boundaries of cytogenetic bands in genomic sequence; the integration of genetic, physical and STS maps with genomic assemblies; and the study of recombination rates across the human, mouse, and rat genomes. He is a co-creator of the UCSC Genome Browser.
Dr. Furey is currently concentrating on utilizing high-throughput sequencing and microarray technologies to explore the relationship between chromatin structure and gene expression genome-wide in normal and diseased tissues.
Contact Information
Terry Furey
Phone: 919-668-4728
2355 CIEMAS
terry.furey@duke.edu