Dan Graur
| Dan Graur | |
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| Born |
July 24, 1953 (age 63) Piatra Neamț, Romania |
| Nationality |
 USA
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| Fields |
molecular evolution genome evolution |
| Institutions |
University of Houston Tel Aviv University University of Tübingen |
| Thesis | Studies on the Patterns of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Substitution (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Masatoshi Nei |
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Website nsm |
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Dan Graur \ˈɡra.ur\ is an American scientist working in the field of molecular evolution. He is the John and Rebecca Moores Professor at the University of Houston and Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is coauthor along with Wen-Hsiung Li of Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution. His Molecular and Genome Evolution was published in 2016.
Dan Graur earned a B.Sc. in Biology and an M.Sc. in Zoology from Tel Aviv University. In 1985 Graur received his Ph.D. at the University of Texas at Houston for research supervised by Masatoshi Nei. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
From 1986 to 2003 he climbed the academic ranks in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University. He retired in 2006 as Norman and Rose Lederer Professor Emeritus of Zoology. In 2003, he moved to the University of Houston. Graur served as associate editor of the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution from 1995 to 2011. Since 2009, he serves as associate editor of the journal Genome Biology and Evolution. From 2009 to 2011 he has held the position of Councillor for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Since the end of 2012, Graur has been noted for his criticisms of the ENCODE project.
In 2011 Graur was awarded the Humboldt Prize. In 2015, he was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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