Dan Graur

Dan Graur
Born 1953 (age 62–63)
Institutions University of Houston
Thesis Studies on the Patterns of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Substitution (1985)
Doctoral advisor Masatoshi Nei
Notable awards Humboldt Prize (2011)
Website
nsm.uh.edu/~dgraur

Dan Graur \ˈgrau̇-lər\ is an American scientist working in the fields of molecular evolution. He is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor at the University of Houston.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11] He is coauthor along with Wen-Hsiung Li of Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution.[12]

Education

In 1985 Graur received his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Houston for research supervised by Masatoshi Nei.

Career

From 2009 to 2011 he has held the position of Councillor for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Graur is also a patron of the arts and has contributed to the yearly updated cover of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution. Graur has, in recent years, been noted for his pointed criticisms of the ENCODE project.

Awards and honours

In 2011 Graur was awarded the Humboldt Prize.[13]

References

  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, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  3. ↑ Graur, D.; Zheng, Y.; Price, N.; Azevedo, R. B. R.; Zufall, R. A.; Elhaik, E. (2013). "On the Immortality of Television Sets: "Function" in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE". Genome Biology and Evolution. 5 (3): 578–590. doi:10.1093/gbe/evt028. PMC 3622293Freely accessible. PMID 23431001.
  4. ↑ Dan Graur on Twitter
  5. ↑ Weinstock, G. M.; Robinson, G. E.; Gibbs, R. A.; Worley, K. C.; Evans, J. D.; Maleszka, R.; Robertson, H. M.; Weaver, D. B.; Beye, M.; Bork, P.; Elsik, C. G.; Hartfelder, K.; Hunt, G. J.; Zdobnov, E. M.; Amdam, G. V.; Bitondi, M. M. G.; Collins, A. M.; Cristino, A. S.; et al. (2006). "Insights into social insects from the genome of the honeybee Apis mellifera". Nature. 443 (7114): 931–49. doi:10.1038/nature05260. PMC 2048586Freely accessible. PMID 17073008.
  6. ↑ Dan Graur's publications indexed by Google Scholar
  7. ↑ Sodergren, E.; Sodergren, G. M.; Weinstock, E. H.; Davidson, R. A.; Cameron, R. A.; Gibbs, R. C.; Angerer, L. M.; Angerer, M. I.; Arnone, D. R.; Burgess, R. D.; Burke, J. A.; Coffman, M.; Dean, M. R.; Elphick, C. A.; Ettensohn, K. R.; Foltz, A.; Hamdoun, R. O.; Hynes, W. H.; Klein, W.; Marzluff, D. R.; McClay, R. L.; Morris, A.; Mushegian, J. P.; Rast, L. C.; Smith, M. C.; Thorndyke, V. D.; Vacquier, G. M.; Wessel, G.; Wray, L.; Zhang, C. G. (2006). "The Genome of the Sea Urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus". Science. 314 (5801): 941–952. doi:10.1126/science.1133609. PMC 3159423Freely accessible. PMID 17095691.
  8. ↑ Elsik, C. G.; Elsik, R. L.; Tellam, K. C.; Worley, R. A.; Gibbs, D. M.; Muzny, G. M.; Weinstock, D. L.; Adelson, E. E.; Eichler, L.; Elnitski, R.; Guigó, D. L.; Hamernik, S. M.; Kappes, H. A.; Lewin, D. J.; Lynn, F. W.; Nicholas, A.; Reymond, M.; Rijnkels, L. C.; Skow, E. M.; Zdobnov, L.; Schook, J.; Womack, T.; Alioto, S. E.; Antonarakis, A.; Astashyn, C. E.; Chapple, H. -C.; Chen, J.; Chrast, F.; Câmara, O.; Ermolaeva, C. N. (2009). "The Genome Sequence of Taurine Cattle: A Window to Ruminant Biology and Evolution". Science. 324 (5926): 522–528. doi:10.1126/science.1169588. PMC 2943200Freely accessible. PMID 19390049.
  9. ↑ Richards, S.; Gibbs, R. A.; Weinstock, G. M.; Brown, S. J.; Denell, R.; Beeman, R. W.; Gibbs, R.; Beeman, R. W.; Brown, S. J.; Bucher, G.; Friedrich, M.; Grimmelikhuijzen, C. J. P.; Klingler, M.; Lorenzen, M.; Richards, S.; Roth, S.; Schröder, R.; Tautz, D.; Zdobnov, E. M.; Muzny, D.; Gibbs, R. A.; Weinstock, G. M.; Attaway, T.; Bell, S.; Buhay, C. J.; Chandrabose, M. N.; Chavez, D.; Clerk-Blankenburg, K. P.; Cree, A.; et al. (2008). "The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum". Nature. 452 (7190): 949–55. doi:10.1038/nature06784. PMID 18362917.
  10. ↑ Graur, D.; Hide, W. A.; Li, W. H. (1991). "Is the guinea-pig a rodent?". Nature. 351 (6328): 649–52. doi:10.1038/351649a0. PMID 2052090.
  11. ↑ Graur, D.; Martin, W. (2004). "Reading the entrails of chickens: Molecular timescales of evolution and the illusion of precision". Trends in Genetics. 20 (2): 80–6. doi:10.1016/j.tig.2003.12.003. PMID 14746989.
  12. ↑ Dan Graur; Wen-Hsiung Li (2000). Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution: Second Edition. Sinauer Associates, Inc. ISBN 0878932666.
  13. ↑ Top-tier Work Earns UH Biologist Prestigious Humboldt Prize, News&Events, February 21, 2011, University of Houston. Accessed May 29, 2011
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