John Burton
Large Genome Sequencing and Exon Resequencing
John trained in planetary and space physics before embarking on a career in the life sciences. John had long had a keen interest in other aspects of science: at eight years old he saw his first electron microscope. After leaving university, John worked for the Medical Research Council for the summer (where his mum also worked) and there John met Jane Rogers who was Head of Sequencing at the Sanger Institute. John joined the Sanger Institute when there were only fifteen people in the sequencing group, and he is now Sequencing Production Team Leader. He manages a lab group that specialises in producing DNA sequence. John's team have sequenced the mouse and zebrafish genomes, and contributed one twelfth of the human genome sequence.
