Michael Levine

Michael Levine is a Professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Co-Director of the Integrative Genomics Center. He received his B.A. from the Department of Genetics at the University of California, Berkeley, and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Alan Garen in the Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry from Yale University in 1981. As a postdoctoral fellow with Walter Gehring and Gerry Rubin from 1982 to 1984, he studied the molecular genetics of Drosophila development. Professor Levine's research team now studies the gene networks responsible for gastrulation in Drosophila and Ciona (a marine ascidian) embryos. He holds the F. Williams Chair in Genetics and Development at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Monsanto Award in Molecular Biology by the National Academy of Sciences in 1996 and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1996 and the National Academy of Sciences in 1998.