Michael Lynch (geneticist)
| Michael Lynch |
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| Born |
(1951-12-06) 6 December 1951
Auburn, New York, USA |
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| Citizenship |
USA |
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| Fields |
Genetics, Population genetics, Evolution |
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| Institutions |
Indiana University |
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| Alma mater |
University of Minnesota |
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| Doctoral students |
Desiree Allen, Hong-Wen Deng, Suzanne Estes, Vaishali Katju, Travis Kibota, Britt Koskella, Kendall Morgan, Angela Omilian, Susanne Paland, Michael Pfrender, Sarah Schaack, Meg Snoke-Smith, Ken Spitze, Michael Vanni, Lawrence Weider |
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| Known for |
contributions to Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics, |
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| Notable awards |
elected member of National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2009 |
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Michael Lynch (born 1951) is Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Besides many highly acclaimed papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of quantitative genetics.[1] He has been a major force in promoting neutral theories to explain genomic architecture based on the effects of population sizes in different lineages; he presented this point of view comprehensively in his 2007 book "The Origins of Genome Architecture".[2] 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 1973. He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota (Ecology and Behavioral Biology) in 1977.
References
- ↑ Lynch, Michael; Bruce Walsh (1998-01-06). Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits (1 ed.). Sinauer Associates. ISBN 0-87893-481-2.
- ↑ Lynch, Michael (2007-03-30). The Origins of Genome Architecture (1 ed.). Sinauer Associates Inc. ISBN 0-87893-484-7.
Books
- Lynch, M. 2007. The Origins of Genome Architecture. Sinauer Assocs., Inc., Sunderland, MA.
- Lynch, M., and J. B. Walsh. 1998. Genetics and Analysis of Quantitative Traits. Sinauer Assocs., Inc., Sunderland, MA.
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