About Christine
Research Interests
- Systems biology, e.g. post-transcriptional regulation
- Protein and genome evolution
- Large-scale quantitative shotgun proteomics
Link to research publications
Career
- 2011 to date: Assistant Professor at the Department of Biology, New York University, New York
- 2008 to 2010: Research Associate at UT Austin, Texas with Prof. Edward Marcotte
- 2005 to 2008: Post-doctoral researcher at UT Austin, Texas with Prof. Edward Marcotte;
- 2001 – 2004: PhD in Computational and Structural Biology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK with Dr Cyrus Chothia and Dr Sarah A. Teichmann;
- Dr. Cyrus Chothia is recipient of the prestigious Dan David Prize
- Dr. Cyrus Chothia is also directly linked to Newton via the PhD Genealogy (see below)
- 2000 – 2001: Master of Research in Mathematical Biology Centre of Mathematical and Physics in Life Science and Experimental Biology (CoMPLEX), University College London, UK;
- 1995 – 2000: Diploma in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Germany. Specialisation in Structural Biology: X-ray crystallography, NMR. Thesis at the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemical Ecology, Jena, Germany (Prof. J. Gershenzon)
Major awards and fellowships
- Robert J. Cotter New Investigator Award (2017)
- HUPO Young Investigator Award (2009)
- Human Frontier Science Long-term fellowship (2005-2008)
- DAAD Post-doctoral fellowship (declined)
- Boehringer-Ingelheim Fonds Pre-doctoral fellowship (2001-2004)
- DAAD Post-graduate fellowship (2000)
- Fellow of the German National Merit Foundation (1998-2000)
Non-work stuff
I like to read, sing, run, mountain-bike, swim, ski, and inline-skate — not simultaneously of course. I like the outdoors. I like movies and theater and good food. I paint and I own gerbils.
PhD genealogy
Pursuing your PhD with Christine links you to Sir Isaac Newton, in 18 easy steps, via quite a few illustrious people! Thanks to Mark Gerstein for assembling this data!
Tree of Fame:
1. Christine Vogel
2. Cyrus Chothia
3. Peter Pauling 1931-2003
4. John Kendrew 1917-1997
5. Max Perutz 1914-2002
6. John Desmond Bernal 1901-1971
7. William Henry Bragg 1862-1942
8. J. J. Thompson 1856-1940
– – – I Lord Rayleigh 1842-1919
9. Edward Routh 1831-1907
10. William Hopkins 1793-1866
– – -Augustus De Morgan 1806-1871
11. Adam Sedgwich 1785-1873
– – – William Whewell 1794-1866
– – – John Hudson 1773-1843
12. Thomas Jones 1756-1807
– – – John Cranke 1746-1816
13. Thomas Postlethwaite 1731-1798
14. Stephen Whisson 1718-1783
15. Walter Taylor 1700-1744
16. Robert Smith 1689-1768
17. Roger Cotes 1682-1716
18. Isaac Newton 1643-1727
Isaac Barrow 1630-1677
James Duport 1606-1679