| Michael Lynch | |
|---|---|
| Born | 6 December 1951 Auburn, New York, USA |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Fields | Genetics, Population genetics, Evolution |
| Institutions | Indiana University |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Doctoral students | Desiree Allen, Hong-Wen Deng, Suzanne Estes, Vaishali Katju, Travis Kibota, Britt Koskella, Kendall Morgan, Angela Omilian, Susanne Paland, Michael Pfrender, Sarah Schaack, Meg Snoke-Smith, Ken Spitze, Michael Vanni, Lawrence Weider |
| Known for | contributions to Population Genetics, Quantitative Genetics, |
| Notable awards | elected member of National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2009 |
Michael Lynch (born 1951) is Distinguished Professor of Evolution, Population Genetics and Genomics at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA. Besides many highly acclaimed papers, especially in population genetics, he has written a two volume textbook with Bruce Walsh, widely considered the "Bible" of quantitative genetics.[1] 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".[2] 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 1973. He obtained his PhD from the University of Minnesota (Ecology and Behavioral Biology) in 1977.