Jonathan Eisen

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Jonathan Eisen
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Born Jonathan Andrew Eisen
1967/1968 (age 55–56)[1]
Nationality American
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Thesis The evolution of DNA repair genes, proteins, and processes (1998)
Doctoral advisor Philip Hanawalt
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Jonathan Andrew Eisen (born 1967 or 1968)[1] is an American evolutionary biologist, currently working at University of California, Davis.[7][8] His academic research is in the fields of evolutionary biology, genomics and microbiology and he is the academic editor-in-chief of the open access journal PLOS Biology.[9][10][11][12][13][14]

Education

Eisen completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard College in 1990, earning an AB degree in biology.[15] He graduated as a Doctor of Philosophy from Stanford University in 1998 with a thesis on the evolution of DNA repair genes, proteins, and processes in 1998, supervised by Philip Hanawalt.[16]

Research

Eisen featured in a comic strip by Jorge Cham on the occasion of Open Access Week 2012.

Eisen's research[2][17][18] focuses on the origin of novelty, how new processes and functions originate in living things. To study this, he focuses on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis.

In 2011 Eisen was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) for promoting open access in the life sciences.[19]

Eisen together with Nick Barton, Derek E.G. Briggs, David B. Goldstein, and Nipam H. Patel is an author of the undergraduate textbook, Evolution, that integrates molecular biology, genomics, and human genetics with traditional evolutionary studies.[4] According to Google Scholar[2] his most cited peer-reviewed papers are on the genome sequence of Plasmodium falciparum,[20] sequencing the Sargasso Sea[21] and a paper on the genome of Thermotoga maritima.[22]

Prior to working at UC Davis he was an Investigator at The Institute for Genomic Research.

Eisen and his work is routinely discussed in the scientific and popular press. Examples include a New York Times article on the Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacteria and Archaea in 2009[23] and extensive coverage of work on searching for a "fourth domain" of life.[24][25] In addition, Eisen's blogging and microblogging work is frequently written about including for example.[26][27][28] His brother Michael Eisen is also a biologist.

Awards and honors

Eisen was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) in 2011 and the Esquire Magazine's Best and Brightest in 2002.[29] He was awarded the Walter J. Gores Award, Faculty Achievement Awards for Excellence in Teaching.[5] He was elected a Fellow of the American Society for Microbiology (FAAM).[6]

References

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  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jonathan Eisen's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a service provided by Google
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  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Office of the University Registrar – Walter J. Gores Awards | Student Affairs
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/leadership/6291 UC DAVIS PROFESSOR NAMED AMERICAN ACADEMY OF MICROBIOLOGY FELLOW
  7. ↑ http://phylogenomics.wordpress.com Web site for the laboratory of Jonathan A. Eisen
  8. ↑ http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com Jonathan Eisen's Blog, The Tree of Life
  9. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  10. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. article about Jonathan Eisen in The Economist
  11. ↑ Jonathan Eisen's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
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  13. ↑ Jonathan Eisen on TwitterLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
  14. ↑ Jonathan Eisen: Meet your microbes (TEDMED 2012)
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  17. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  18. ↑ Jonathan Eisen's publications indexed by the DBLP Bibliography Server at the University of Trier
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  27. ↑ The Scientist Magazine® - Magazines
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  29. ↑ |url=http://www.esquire.com/features/best-n-brightest-2002/ESQ1202-DEC_CHANPENNINGER_rev_3 |date=20121013193647 The Maverick – Esquire Archive copy at the Wayback Machine

External links

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