Michael Eisen

Michael Eisen
Born
Michael Bruce Eisen

(1967-04-13) April 13, 1967 (age 57)
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard University (AB, PhD)
Known forPublic Library of Science (PLOS)
AwardsBenjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2002)
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
ThesisStructural Studies of Influenza A Virus Proteins (1996)
Doctoral advisorDon Craig Wiley[citation needed]
Websitemichaeleisen.org

Michael Bruce Eisen (born April 13, 1967) is an American computational biologist and the former[2] editor-in-chief of the journal eLife.[3] He is a professor of genetics, genomics and development at University of California, Berkeley.[4][5][6][7][8] He is a leading advocate of open access scientific publishing and is co-founder of Public Library of Science (PLOS). In 2018, Eisen announced his candidacy U.S. Senate from California as an Independent, though he failed to qualify for the ballot.[9]

  1. ^ Michael Eisen publications indexed by Google Scholar
  2. ^ Science News Staff (24 October 2023). "Prominent journal editor fired for endorsing satirical article about Israel-Hamas conflict". Science. Archived from the original on 24 October 2023. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  3. ^ "eLife welcomes Michael Eisen as Editor-in-Chief". eLife. 2019-03-05. Retrieved 2019-03-05.
  4. ^ "Michael B. Eisen, PhD". Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  5. ^ Michael Eisen's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  6. ^ Perou, C. M.; Sørlie, T; Eisen, M. B.; Van De Rijn, M; Jeffrey, S. S.; Rees, C. A.; Pollack, J. R.; Ross, D. T.; Johnsen, H; Akslen, L. A.; Fluge, O; Pergamenschikov, A; Williams, C; Zhu, S. X.; Lønning, P. E.; Børresen-Dale, A. L.; Brown, P. O.; Botstein, D (2000). "Molecular portraits of human breast tumours". Nature. 406 (6797): 747–52. Bibcode:2000Natur.406..747P. doi:10.1038/35021093. PMID 10963602. S2CID 1280204.
  7. ^ Iyer, V. R. (1999). "The Transcriptional Program in the Response of Human Fibroblasts to Serum". Science. 283 (5398): 83–7. Bibcode:1999Sci...283...83I. doi:10.1126/science.283.5398.83. PMID 9872747.
  8. ^ Ross, D. T.; Scherf, U; Eisen, M. B.; Perou, C. M.; Rees, C; Spellman, P; Iyer, V; Jeffrey, S. S.; Van De Rijn, M; Waltham, M; Pergamenschikov, A; Lee, J. C.; Lashkari, D; Shalon, D; Myers, T. G.; Weinstein, J. N.; Botstein, D; Brown, P. O. (2000). "Systematic variation in gene expression patterns in human cancer cell lines". Nature Genetics. 24 (3): 227–35. doi:10.1038/73432. PMID 10700174. S2CID 1135137.
  9. ^ Cohen, Jon (2017-01-27). "Q&A: Michael Eisen bids to be first fly biologist in the U.S. Senate". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2020-04-13.