Michael Lynch (geneticist)
Michael Lynch | |
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6 December 1951
Auburn, New York, USA
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| Citizenship | USA |
| 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 |
| Doctoral students | Matthew Ackerman, Desiree Allen, Stephan Baehr, Elizabeth Bohuski, Jennifer Britt, David Butcher, Chi Chun Chen, Hong-Wen Deng, Suzanne Estes, Allan Force, Kyle Hagner, Parul Johri, Vaishali Katju, Travis Kibota, Britt Koskella, Wenli Li, Weiyi Li, Timothy Licknack, Man Lin, Casey McGrath, Kendall Morgan, Angela Omilian, Susanne Paland, Michael Pfrender, Aaron Richardson, Sarah Schaack, Margaret Snoke, Ryan Stikeleather, Barry Sullender, Ken Spitze, Boguljub Trickovic, Michael Vanni, Amanda Wardwell, Lawrence Weider |
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 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
- 2022: Thomas Hunt Morgan Medal