Michael Levine (biologist)
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Not to be confused with Michael Levin (biologist).
Michael Levine is an American developmental and cell biologist at Princeton University, where he is the Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and a Professor of Molecular Biology.[1][2]
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Michael S. Levine | |
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Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Yale University (PhD) |
Known for | Homeobox, eve stripe-2, ascidian developmental biology |
Awards | NAS Award in Molecular Biology (1996) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Developmental biology |
Institutions | Princeton University University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Diego Columbia University |
Doctoral advisor | Alan Garen |
Doctoral students | Albert Erives |
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Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998) |
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Levine previously held appointments at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of California, San Diego, and Columbia University. He is notable for co-discovering the Homeobox in 1983 and for discovering the organization of the regulatory regions of developmental genes.[3]