Michael Levine (biologist)

Michael S. Levine
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley (BA)
Yale University (PhD)
Known forHomeobox, eve stripe-2, ascidian developmental biology
AwardsNAS Award in Molecular Biology (1996)
Scientific career
FieldsDevelopmental biology
InstitutionsPrinceton University
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, San Diego
Columbia University
Doctoral advisorAlan Garen
Doctoral studentsAlbert Erives
Notes
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1998)

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]

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]

  1. ^ "Molecular Biology Faculty Michael Levine".
  2. ^ "LSI History".
  3. ^ Hopkin, Karen (March 1, 2007). "Fire Fly". The Scientist. 21 (3): 58.