Education
Burge completed his Bachelor of Science at in 1990, and continued graduate studies in computational biology at Stanford University, gaining his Doctor of Philosophy in 1997 under the supervision of Samuel Karlin. During his time at Stanford he was responsible for developing algorithms for GENSCAN used in gene prediction for example the initial analysis of the Human Genome Project. His Doctor of Philosophy thesis was titled Identification of genes in human genomic deoxyribonucleic acid.
Career
From 1997 to 1999 Burge worked as a postdoc in the laboratory of Phillip Allen Sharp, working in the fields of Ribonucleic acid splicing and molecular evolution. Burge joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1999 as a Bioinformatics Fellow. He became Assistant Professor in 2002 and has been an Associate Professor since 2004.
His current research interests include genomics, Ribonucleic acid splicing and microRNA regulation.
Burge has also served on the editorial boards of the academic journals Ribonucleic acid, PLOS Computational Biology, Business Service Management Bioinformatics and Business Service Management Genomics.
Membership
He has been an Associate Member of the Broad Institute since 2004.
