Dan Graur

Dan Graur
BornJuly 24, 1953 (1953-07-24) (age 71)
Piatra Neamț, Romania
Nationality Romania
Alma materTel Aviv University
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Scientific career
Fieldsmolecular evolution
genome evolution
InstitutionsUniversity of Houston
Tel Aviv University
University of Tübingen
ThesisStudies on the Patterns of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Substitution (1985)
Doctoral advisorMasatoshi Nei
Websitensm.uh.edu/~dgraur

Dan Graur \ˈɡra.ur\ (born July 24, 1953, in Piatra Neamț) is a Romanian-American scientist working in the field of molecular evolution.[1][2] He is a Moores Professor at the University of Houston and 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.

  1. ^ Faculty profile, Department of Molecular Biology, University of Houston. Accessed May 29, 2011
  2. ^ Dan Graur's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  3. ^ Dan Graur; Wen-Hsiung Li (2000). Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution: Second Edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc. ISBN 0878932666.
  4. ^ Dan Graur (2016). Molecular and Genome Evolution. Sinauer Associates, Inc. ISBN 978-0878932665.