Michael Lynch (geneticist)
Michael Lynch | |
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Born | Auburn, New York, USA | 6 December 1951
Citizenship | USA |
Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
Known for | contributions to Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics, |
Awards | elected member of National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2009 |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics, Population genetics, Evolution |
Institutions | Indiana University, Arizona State University |
Doctoral students | Sarah Schaack |
Michael Lynch (born 1951) is the Director of the Biodesign Institute for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Biography[]
He held a Distinguished Professorship of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Besides over 250[1] papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh. Alongside this textbook he has also published two other books. He promotes neutral theories to explain genomic architecture based on the effects of population sizes in different lineages; he presented this point of view in his 2007 book "The Origins of Genome Architecture". In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (Evolutionary Biology). Lynch was a Biology undergraduate at St. Bonaventure University and received a B.S. in Biology in 1973. He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota (Ecology and Behavioral Biology) in 1977.
Honors and awards[]
- 2013: President of the Genetics Society of America[2]
References[]
- ^ "Publications | The Biodesign Institute | ASU". biodesign.asu.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
- ^ "Past and Present GSA Officers". GSA. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- 1951 births
- Living people
- University of Minnesota College of Biological Sciences alumni
- Evolutionary biologists
- Population geneticists
- Indiana University faculty
- Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- Neutral theory