Harris Lewin
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Harris A. Lewin,[1] an American biologist, is a professor of evolution and ecology and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair at the University of California, Davis. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[3] In 2011, Lewin won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his research into cattle genomics.[3][4] Lewin chairs the working group for the Earth BioGenome Project, a moonshot for biology that aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of 10 years.[5] Lewin is a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, first published in 2013.[6]
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Harris Lewin | |
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Born | 1957[1] Brooklyn, N.Y.[2] |
Awards | Wolf Prize in Agriculture |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Cornell University University of California, Davis |
Thesis | (1984) |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Illinois University of California, Davis |
Main interests | biologist |
Notable ideas | genomics and immunogenetics |
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