Michael Lynch (geneticist)
Michael Lynch | |
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Born | Auburn, New York, U.S. | December 6, 1951
Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
Known for | contributions to Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics, |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Genetics, Population genetics, Evolution |
Institutions | Indiana University, Arizona State University |
Michael Lynch (born December 6, 1951) is an American geneticist who is the Director of the Biodesign Institute for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
Biography
[edit]Lynch held a Distinguished Professorship of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Besides over 250[1][2] 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;[3] he presented this point of view in his 2007 book "The Origins of Genome Architecture".[4] 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
[edit]- 2013: President of the Genetics Society of America[5]
- 2022: Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Publications | The Biodesign Institute | ASU". biodesign.asu.edu. Retrieved 2017-11-08.
- ^ "Michael Lynch". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2023-09-28.
- ^ Lynch, Michael (2007-05-15). "The frailty of adaptive hypotheses for the origins of organismal complexity". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (suppl_1): 8597–8604. doi:10.1073/pnas.0702207104. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 1876435. PMID 17494740.
- ^ "The origins of genome architecture". Choice Reviews Online. 45 (2): 45–0862-45-0862. 2007-10-01. doi:10.5860/choice.45-0862. ISSN 0009-4978.
- ^ "Past and Present GSA Officers". GSA. Archived from the original on 4 December 2018. Retrieved 27 November 2018.