Judith Blake (scientist)
{{short description|Computational biologist}}
{{other people|Judith Blake}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Judith Blake
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| birth_name = Judith Anne Blake
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| fields = Genome evolution
Biomedical ontologies
Mouse Genetics
| workplaces = {{Plainlist|
- Jackson Laboratory
- University of Connecticut
- Tufts University
- University of Maine
- The Institute for Genomic Research
- Smithsonian Institution}}
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| education = University of Connecticut (BA)
Harvard University (MA, PhD)
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| thesis_title = Chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard, Anolis grahami
| thesis_url = http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990037527150203941/catalog
| thesis_year = 1981
| doctoral_advisor = Ernest Edward Williams
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| known_for = Gene Ontology
Mouse Genome Informatics
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| awards = ISCB Fellow (2020)
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| website = {{Official URL}}}}Judith Anne Blake is a computational biologist at the Jackson Laboratory and Professor of Mammalian Genetics.{{Google scholar id}}{{EuropePMC}}{{DBLP}}{{cite web|first=Judith Anne|last=Blake|year=2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200714081847/https://www.jax.org/-/media/jaxweb/files/research-and-faculty/cvs/blake-cv.pdf?la=en&hash=1134DB65A1A5637970C78D121D25163F187C0431|archive-date=2020-07-14|url=https://www.jax.org/-/media/jaxweb/files/research-and-faculty/cvs/blake-cv.pdf?la=en&hash=1134DB65A1A5637970C78D121D25163F187C0431|website=jax.org|title=Curriculum Vitae: Judith Anne Blake, Ph.D}}{{Scopus id}}
Education
Blake completed her Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1974 at the University of Connecticut. She moved to Harvard University for postgraduate study where she was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1978 followed by a PhD in 1981.{{cite thesis|degree=PhD|first=Judith Anne|last=Blake|year=1981|publisher=Harvard University|oclc=76978818|website=harvard.edu|url=http://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990037527150203941/catalog|title=Chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard, Anolis grahami}} Her PhD investigated chromosomal variation in the Jamaican lizard Anolis grahami and was supervised by Ernest Edward Williams.
Career and research
Blake's research interests are in genome evolution, biomedical ontologies and mouse genetics. She is one of the leaders and founding principal investigators (PIs) of the Gene Ontology (GO) consortium{{cite journal|last1=Ashburner|first1=Michael|last2=Ball|first2=Catherine A.|last3=Blake|first3=Judith A.|last4=Botstein|first4=David|last5=Butler|first5=Heather|last6=Cherry|first6=J. Michael|last7=Davis|first7=Allan P.|last8=Dolinski|first8=Kara|last9=Dwight|first9=Selina S.|last10=Eppig|first10=Janan T.|last11=Harris|first11=Midori A.|last12=Hill|first12=David P.|last13=Issel-Tarver|first13=Laurie|last14=Kasarskis|first14=Andrew|last15=Lewis|first15=Suzanna|last16=Matese|first16=John C.|last17=Richardson|first17=Joel E.|last18=Ringwald|first18=Martin|last19=Rubin|first19=Gerald M.|last20=Sherlock|first20=Gavin|title=Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology|journal=Nature Genetics|volume=25|issue=1|year=2000|pages=25–29|issn=1061-4036|doi=10.1038/75556|pmid=10802651 |pmc=3037419}}{{Cite journal
| pmid = 14681407
| pmc = 308770
| year = 2004
| last1 = Harris
| first1 = M. A.
| title = The Gene Ontology (GO) database and informatics resource
| journal = Nucleic Acids Research
| volume = 32
| issue = Database issue
| pages = D258–61
| last2 = Clark
| first2 = J
| last3 = Ireland
| first3 = A
| last4 = Lomax
| first4 = J
| last5 = Ashburner
| first5 = M
| last6 = Foulger
| first6 = R
| last7 = Eilbeck
| first7 = K
| last8 = Lewis
| first8 = S
| last9 = Marshall
| first9 = B
| last10 = Mungall
| first10 = C
| last11 = Richter
| first11 = J
| last12 = Rubin
| first12 = G. M.
| last13 = Blake
| first13 = J. A.
| last14 = Bult
| first14 = C
| last15 = Dolan
| first15 = M
| last16 = Drabkin
| first16 = H
| last17 = Eppig
| first17 = J. T.
| last18 = Hill
| first18 = D. P.
| last19 = Ni
| first19 = L
| last20 = Ringwald
| first20 = M
| last21 = Balakrishnan
| first21 = R
| last22 = Cherry
| first22 = J. M.
| last23 = Christie
| first23 = K. R.
| last24 = Costanzo
| first24 = M. C.
| last25 = Dwight
| first25 = S. S.
| last26 = Engel
| first26 = S
| last27 = Fisk
| first27 = D. G.
| last28 = Hirschman
| first28 = J. E.
| last29 = Hong
| first29 = E. L.
| last30 = Nash
| first30 = R. S.
| display-authors = 29
| doi = 10.1093/nar/gkh036
}}{{Cite journal|author=The Gene Ontology Consortium|date=2019|title=The Gene Ontology Resource: 20 years and still going strong|journal=Nucleic Acids Research|language=en|volume=47|issue=D1|pages=D330–D338|doi=10.1093/nar/gky1055|issn=0305-1048|pmc=6323945|pmid=30395331}} and the Mouse Genome Database (MGD).{{cite journal |last1=Blake|first1=Judith A.|author-link1=Judith Blake (scientist)|last2=Bult|first2=Carol J.|last3=Kadin|first3=James A.|last4=Richardson|first4=Joel E.|last5=Eppig|first5=Janan T.|author6=The Mouse Genome Database Group|date=2011|title=The Mouse Genome Database (MGD): premier model organism resource for mammalian genomics and genetics|journal = Nucleic Acids Research|volume=39|issue=Database issue|pages=D842-8|location = Oxford| pmid = 21051359|doi = 10.1093/nar/gkq1008| pmc =3013640 }}
=Awards and honors=
Blake was elected a Fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to computational biology.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iscb.org/iscb-awards/outstanding-contribution-iscb|title=Outstanding Contribution to ISCB|website=iscb.org|publisher=International Society for Computational Biology|author=Anon|year=2020}}
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