Michael Lynch (geneticist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Michael Lynch (geneticist)

American geneticist

Date of Birth: 06-Dec-1951

Place of Birth: Auburn, New York, United States

Profession: university teacher, geneticist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Michael Lynch (born 1951) is the Director of the Biodesign Institute for Mechanisms of Evolution at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona.
He held a Distinguished Professorship of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Besides over 250 papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of quantitative genetics.
Alongside this textbook he has also published two other books.
He has been a major force in promoting neutral theories to explain genomic architecture based on the effects of population sizes in different lineages; he presented this point of view comprehensively in his 2007 book "The Origins of Genome Architecture".
In 2009, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (Evolutionary Biology).
Lynch was a Biology undergraduate at St.
Bonaventure University and received a B.S.
in Biology in 1973.
He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota (Ecology and Behavioral Biology) in 1977.