Magnus Nordborg

Background

Dr Magnus Nordborg joined the GMI as Science Director in 2009. Previously he was a tenured Associate Professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, USA. Dr Nordborg is internationally recognized as a pioneer in the use of genome wide association studies to study patterns of natural variation in non-human organisms. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Also in 2010 he was awarded a prestigious European Research Council Advanced Grant. (View his CV)

Nationality: Swedish and American

Academic Qualifications

• Swedish Defense Institute of Language/Uppsala University, Sweden, 1986.

• BSc: Lund University, Sweden, 1989.

• PhD, Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, USA, 1994.
• Postdoc, Department of Ecology & Evolution, University of Chicago, USA, 1994-1997

Current and Former Positions

• Department of Genetics, Lund University, Sweden: Research Assistant Professor, 1997-2000

• Molecular & Computational Biology, University of Southern California, USA: Assistant Professor (2000-2004), Associate Professor (2004-2011), Research Associate Professor (2011-present)

Awards, Honors & Fellowships

• Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, 2003-2005

• Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2010

Research Funding

• "Trans national infrastructure for plant genome science" EC FP7 283496, total amount €4,349,700 (Investigator, minor fraction of budget [PI: EMBL], 2011-2014
• "Developing maximum-resolution genotype-phenotype maps using whole-genome polymorphism data" ERC AdvG 268962, total amount €2,183,956 (PI), 2011-2016

• "Starting from scratch: adaptation to variable environments after an extreme bottleneck", DFG SPP 1529, total amount for GMI component €228,510 (joint proposal with Weigel, MPI), 2011-2014.

• "The molecular basis of local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana", NIH 1 R01 GM083068-01A1, total amount $2,470,000 (PI), 2008-2013.
• "Genomic analysis of the genotype-phenotype map" NIH 2 P50 HG002790-06, total amount $12,201,508(Investigator, major fraction of budget [PI: Tavaré USC]) 2009-2013
• "Integrated genetic and genomic resources for a model system" NICHD NIH, total amunt €240,000 (PI) 2009-2012

Advisory functions

• ERC Starting Grant panel member (2013)

• Member of the Umeå Plant Science Center Scientific Advisory Board
• Member of the International Arabidopsis Informatics Consortium Scientific Advisory Board
• Member of the Arabidopsis Biological Resource Center Advisory Board

Publications

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