The lecture theater at the Crick.

Crick Lecture

Michael Levine

Princeton University

 

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Title: Transcriptional enhancers in animal development and evolution 

Michael Levine is a developmental and cell biologist at Princeton University, where he is Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and a Professor of Molecular Biology. 

After studying Genetics at the University of California, Berkeley, Levine obtained his PhD from Yale in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry in 1981. As a postdoc in Basel, Switzerland between 1982-83, he was a co-discover of homeobox. In 1998, Levine was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Among his numerous awards, Levine received the Molecular Biology Award from the National Academy of Sciences in 1996, the Wilbur Cross Medal from Yale University in 2009 and the EG Conklin Medal from the Society of Development Biology in 2015.