Dan Graur
Dan Graur | |
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| Born | July 24, 1953 (age 70) Piatra Neamț, Romania |
| Nationality |  Romania |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | molecular evolution genome evolution |
| Institutions | University of Houston Tel Aviv University University of Tübingen |
| Thesis | Studies on the Patterns of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Substitution (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Masatoshi Nei |
| Website | nsm |
Dan Graur \ˈɡra.ur\ (born July 24, 1953, in
Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is coauthor along with Wen-Hsiung Li of Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution.[3] His Molecular and Genome Evolution[4]
was published in 2016.
Education
Dan Graur earned a B.Sc. in biology and an M.Sc. in Zoology from Tel Aviv University. In 1985 Graur received his
Ph.D. at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for research supervised by Masatoshi Nei. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Tübingen
, Germany.
Career
From 1986 to 2003 he worked in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University. He retired in 2006 as Norman and Rose Lederer Professor Emeritus of Zoology. In 2003, he moved to the University of Houston. From 2009 to 2011 he has held the position of Councillor for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Graur has been noted for his criticisms of the ENCODE project.[5]
Awards and honors
In 2011 Graur was awarded the
Humboldt Prize.[6] In 2015, he was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[7]
References
- ^ Faculty profile, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Houston. Accessed May 29, 2011
- ^ Dan Graur's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ISBN 0878932666.
- ISBN 978-0878932665.
- PMID 23431001.
- ^ Top-tier Work Earns UH Biologist Prestigious Humboldt Prize, News&Events, February 21, 2011, University of Houston. Accessed May 29, 2011
- ^ "Two University of Houston Scientists Elected as AAAS Fellows".
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