Terry Furey, PhD
Assistant Research Professor, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
"My goal is to create a computationally-focused research program that will take advantage of the resources here in order to make meaningful biological discoveries."Terrence S. Furey, PhD 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. After spending an additional two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at UCSC, he joined the IGSP faculty in the summer of 2004, and works with both the Center for Applied Genomics & Technology and the Center for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology.
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.
Contact Information
Terry Furey
Phone: 919-668-4728
2355 CIEMAS
terry.furey@duke.edu