Michael Eisen
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| Born | Michael Bruce Eisen April 13, 1967 Boston, Massachusetts |
| Nationality | American |
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| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Alma mater | Harvard College |
| Thesis | Structural Studies of Influenza A Virus Proteins (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Don Craig Wiley |
| Known for | Public Library of Science (PLOS) |
| Notable awards | Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics) (2002) |
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Michael Bruce Eisen (born April 13, 1967) is an American computational biologist. He is Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley. He is a leading advocate of open access scientific publishing and is co-Founder of Public Library of Science (PLOS). Eisen has announced his intention to run for U.S. Senate from California in 2018 as an Independent.
Born in Boston, Eisen and his brother Jonathan were raised in a family of scientists. Their grandfather was a x-ray crystallographer, their father, Howard Eisen a physician, and mother, Laura a biochemist.They moved to Bethesda, Maryland when Eisen was four or five years old. The brothers spent summers in Long Island with their grandparents. Eisen states that he loved frogs and salamanders '"Even more than I have a frog fetish, I have a swamp fetish. I really like being in swamps."' He was also very interested in math and was captain of the high school math team. Eisen graduated from Walt Whitman High School in 1985. Intending to major in mathematics at Harvard University, he realized that there other more brilliant math students, it was a Good Will Hunting moment and he decided that he did not want to major in mathematics, '"You don't want to be Salieri to Mozart."' During his years at Harvard, Eisen worked on "unlocking the three-dimensional structures of proteins." He was shown a DNA microarray which taught him a '"new way of doing biology"'.
Eisen completed his PhD at Harvard University in biophysics and a B.S. (also from Harvard) in Math. He was under the supervision of Don Craig Wiley while studying Influenza A virus Proteins.
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