Petra Levin Explained

Petra Anne Levin is an American microbiologist. She is a professor in the department of biology and co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences Graduate Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Education and early career

Levin graduated, cum laude, from Williams College with a bachelor of arts in biology in 1989. She worked as a science teacher at the American School in Switzerland from 1989 to 1990. Levin completed a doctor of philosophy in biology from Harvard University in 1996. Her dissertation was titled Asymmetric Division During Spore Formation in Bacillus subtillis. Her doctoral advisor was Richard Losick. Levin was a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT Department of Biology under advisor Alan Grossman.[1]

Career

Levin was an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis in the department of biology. She was an associate professor from 2008 to 2015 before becoming a professor. In 2015, she became the co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences Graduate Program at Washington University.

Levin became a member of the editorial advisory board of Molecular Microbiology in 2008. In 2016, Levin became a front matter editor of PLOS Genetics. In 2018, she became an editorial board member of Current Biology.

Awards and honors

Levin was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005. She was a Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands from 2015 to 2016.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Petra Anne Levin CV. Levin. Petra Anne. April 2018. Washington University in St. Louis. https://web.archive.org/web/20190218082210/https://pages.wustl.edu/files/pages/levin/people/palscv4-18.pdf. 2019-02-18. 2019-02-17. dead.
  2. Web site: Petra Levin The Levin Lab. pages.wustl.edu. 2019-02-18. 2019-03-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20190320204943/https://pages.wustl.edu/levin/people/petra-levin. dead.