Jose V. Lopez

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Jose V. Lopez
Academic background
Alma mater	Georgia Tech Florida State University George Mason University
Thesis	(1995)
Doctoral advisor	Stephen J. O'Brien
Influences	Charles Darwin, Alan Watts, Henry David Thoreau/Walden, Lynn Margulis, Benjamin Franklin
Academic work
Institutions	Smithsonian Institution Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution
Main interests	evolution, genomics, symbiosis, systematics microbiology,
Notable ideas	transposition of mitochondrial DNA

Jose V. Lopez is an American-Filipino Molecular Biologist. He has been a faculty member and Professor of Biology at Nova Southeastern University (NSU)^[1] in Dania Beach, Florida, since 2007. Lopez has contributed as a co-founder of the Global Invertebrate Genomics Alliance (GIGA), a community of scientists. He has also participated in the "Porifera—Tree of Life," "Earth Microbiome," and Earth BioGenome projects.