Harris Lewin Explained

Harris Lewin
Birth Date:1957[1]
Birth Place:Brooklyn, N.Y.[2]
Workplaces:University of Illinois
University of California, Davis
Alma Mater:Cornell University
University of California, Davis
Thesis Year:1984
Main Interests:biologist
Principal Ideas:genomics and immunogenetics
Awards:Wolf Prize in Agriculture

Harris A. Lewin,[1] an American biologist, is a professor of evolution and ecology and Robert and Rosabel Osborne Endowed Chair at the University of California, Davis. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences.[3] In 2011, Lewin won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his research into cattle genomics. Lewin chairs the working group for the Earth BioGenome Project, a moonshot for biology that aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth’s eukaryotic biodiversity over a period of 10 years.[4] Lewin is a founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences, first published in 2013.[5]

Career

Lewin studied at Cornell University and earned his B.S. in Animal Science in 1979 and M.S. in Animal Breeding and Genetics in 1981. He was awarded his Ph.D. in Immunology from the University of California, Davis in 1984.[6] [1] [7] [8] He then worked at the University of Illinois. In 2003, he served as the founding director of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.[9] [10] In 2009, he and a team of researchers fully sequenced the cow genome.

Lewin served as vice chancellor for research at University of California, Davis from 2011 until 2016. In 2016 he returned to the faculty in the University of California, Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology and the Genome Center.[11] Lewin is a member of a group biologists that propose to sequence the DNA of all life on Earth.[12]

Lewin was senior author of a study that revealed one of the most prolific bulls in the history of Holstein cattle breeding, Pawnee Farm Arlinda Chief, had a lethal gene mutation estimated to have caused half million spontaneous cow abortions worldwide.[13] [14] [15] [16] Lewin collaborated with researchers from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France for a study that used RNA-sequencing to highlight problems with gene expression in cloned cattle.[17] In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,[18] Lewin and his colleagues used an algorithm to computationally recreate the chromosomes of the first eutherian mammal, the long-extinct, shrewlike ancestor of all placental mammals.[19]

At the 48th World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, Lewin announced a landmark partnership between the Earth BioGenome Project and the Earth Bank of Codes to map the DNA of all the planet’s eukaryotes, some 1.5 million known species.[20] [21] Lewin was the lead author for a perspective paper published April 23, 2018 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life."[4] In the paper, the 24 interdisciplinary experts who comprise the Earth BioGenome Project Working Group, outline a roadmap and rational for the project, which is estimated to cost $4.7 billion and take ten years.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Azar . Beth . Profile of Harris A. Lewin . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 20 December 2016 . 113 . 51 . 14468–14470 . 10.1073/pnas.1618868114 . 27956630 . 5187711 . 2016PNAS..11314468A . free .
  2. Harris Lewin named director of Post Genomic Institute . University of Illinois . 2 May 2003 . July 14, 2020 .
  3. Harris Lewin Elected to National Academy of Sciences . . 30 April 2012 . July 14, 2020 .
  4. Lewin . Harris A. . Robinson . Gene E. . Kress . W. John . Baker . William J. . Coddington . Jonathan . Crandall . Keith A. . Durbin . Richard . Edwards . Scott V. . Forest . Félix . Gilbert . M. Thomas P. . Goldstein . Melissa M. . Grigoriev . Igor V. . Hackett . Kevin J. . Haussler . David . Jarvis . Erich D. . Johnson . Warren E. . Patrinos . Aristides . Richards . Stephen . Castilla-Rubio . Juan Carlos . van Sluys . Marie-Anne . Soltis . Pamela S. . Xu . Xun . Yang . Huanming . Zhang . Guojie . Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 24 April 2018 . 115 . 17 . 4325–4333 . 10.1073/pnas.1720115115 . 29686065 . 5924910 . 2018PNAS..115.4325L . free .
  5. 10.1146/annurev-av-1-012513-100001. Introduction. Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 2013. 1.
  6. Web site: Harris Lewin College of Biological Sciences . biosci3.ucdavis.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150906231445/http://biosci3.ucdavis.edu/Faculty/Profile/View/14515 . 2015-09-06.
  7. Web site: Harris A. Lewin, Ph.D. . www.igb.illinois.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160812095427/http://www.igb.illinois.edu/labs/lewin/labweb/personnel/Harris.html . 2016-08-12.
  8. Web site: Personnel, Laboratory of Mammalian Genome Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign . lewinlab.igb.uiuc.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080708185704/http://lewinlab.igb.uiuc.edu/Personnel/HarrisLewin.html . 2008-07-08.
  9. Web site: History. Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology. 7 November 2015.
  10. Illinois professor awarded 2011 Wolf Prize in Agriculture . University of Illinois . 15 February 2011 . July 14, 2020 .
  11. Web site: Research VC Lewin to Step Down. UC Davis. 9 February 2016. en. 2017-07-27.
  12. Pennisi . Elizabeth . Elizabeth Pennisi . Biologists propose to sequence the DNA of all life on Earth . Science . 24 February 2017 . 10.1126/science.aal0824 .
  13. How a Genetic Mutation From 1 Bull Caused the Loss of Half a Million Calves Worldwide . UC Davis . 13 October 2016 . July 14, 2020 .
  14. News: Zhang . Sarah . The Dairy Industry Lost $420 Million From a Flaw in a Single Bull . The Atlantic . 31 October 2016 .
  15. News: One bull's genes gave 14 percent of U.S. dairy cows a deadly mutation . Main . Douglas . 15 November 2016 . Newsweek .
  16. News: El ejemplar de toro que transformó la industria lechera mundial . The bull that transformed the world dairy industry with 16,000 calves . Spanish . BBC News Mundo . 1 November 2016 .
  17. Web site: Cow Gene Study Shows Why Most Clones Fail. UC Davis. 9 December 2016. en. 2017-07-27.
  18. Kim . Jaebum . Farré . Marta . Auvil . Loretta . Capitanu . Boris . Larkin . Denis M. . Ma . Jian . Lewin . Harris A. . Reconstruction and evolutionary history of eutherian chromosomes . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 3 July 2017 . 114 . 27 . E5379–E5388 . 10.1073/pnas.1702012114 . 28630326 . 5502614 . 2017PNAS..114E5379K . free .
  19. Web site: Reconstruction of Ancient Chromosomes Offers Insight Into Mammalian Evolution. UC Davis. 21 June 2017. en. 2017-07-27.
  20. Web site: Earth BioGenome Project to Sequence All Life. UC Davis. 23 January 2018. en. 2018-09-06.
  21. Web site: New Partnership Aims to Sequence Genomes of All Life on Earth, Unlock Nature's Value, Tackle Bio-Piracy and Habitat Loss. World Economic Forum. 2018-09-06.

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