Ben Brown completed a BA in Mathematics at UC Santa Cruz, followed by a PhD in Applied Science and Technology at UC Berkeley in 2009. He has worked with the ENCODE Consortium since the Pilot Project (2005), and the modENCODE Consortium throughout its duration (2009-2014)

Zhang W, Mao JH, Zhu W, Jain AK, Liu K, Brown JB & Karpen GH. (2016). “Centromere and kinetochore gene misexpression predicts cancer patient survival and response to radiotherapy and chemotherapy”. Nature Communications. In press. DOI: 10.1038/ncomms12619. Orsini L, Gilbert D, Podicheti R, Jansen M, Brown JB, Solari OS, et al. (2016). Daphnia magna transcriptome by RNA-Seq across 12 environmental stressors. Scientific data, 3. PMID: 27164179 PMCID: PMC4862326 DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.30 Stoiber MH*, Celniker SE, Cherbas L, Brown JB*, Cherbas P. (2016). "Diverse hormone response networks in 41 independent Drosophila cell lines". G3 (Bethesda). pii: g3.115.023366. *Stoiber is Brown Lab. Stoiber MH, May G, Duff M, Obar R, Artavanis-Tsakonas S, Brown JB*, Graveley BR, Celniker SE. (2015). “Extensive cross-regulation in Drosophila post-transcriptional regulatory networks”. Genome Research. doi:10.1101/gr.182675.114 *co-senior author, corresponding author, Stoiber is Brown Lab. Mao, JH, Langley SA, Huang Y, Hang M, Bouchard KE, Celniker SE, Brown JB, Jansson JK, Karpen GH, and Snijders AM. (2015). "Identification of genetic factors that modify motor performance and body weight using Collaborative Cross mice." Scientific reports. 5: 16247. Brown JB, Celniker SE. (2015). “Lessons from modENCODE”. Annual Reviews of Genomics and Human Genetics. Available online: DOI: 10.1146/annurev-genom-090413-025448 Wessel J, et al. (2015). “Low-frequency and rare exome chip variants associate with fasting glucose and type 2 diabetes susceptibility”. Nature Communications. (6):5897. doi: 10.1038/ncomms6897. Brown JB, Boley N, Eisman R, May GE, Stoiber MH, Duff MO, Booth BW, Wen J, Park S, Suzuki AM, Wan KH, Yu C, Zhang D, Carlson JW, Cherbas L, Eads BD, Miller D, Mockaitis K, Roberts J, Davis CA, Frise E, Hammonds AS, Olson S, Shenker S, Sturgill D, Samsonova AA, Weiszmann R, Robinson G, Hernandez J, Andrews J, Bickel PJ, Carninci P, Cherbas P, Gingeras TR, Hoskins RA, Kaufman TC, Lai EC, Oliver B, Perrimon N, Graveley BR, Celniker SE. (2014). “Diversity and Dynamics of the Drosophila Transcriptome”. Nature. doi: 10.1038/nature12962.