Prof. Dr. Dan Graur

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsBioinformatics and Theoretical Biology,General Genetics, Functional Genome Research,Systematics and Morphology (Zoology)
Keywordsphylogeny, alignment, bioinformatics, neutral theory, genomics

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityHouston
InstitutionUniversity of Houston (UH)
InstituteDepartment of Biology and Biochemistry

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Klaus WöhrmannFakultät für Biologie, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Dr. Jürgen TomiukInstitut für Anthropologie und Humangenetik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Tübingen
Prof. Dr. William MartinBotanisches Institut, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
Start of initial sponsorship01/06/1985

Programme(s)

1985Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme
2010Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Graur is an international authority in the field of evolutionary genome dynamics. His work has delivered seminal advances that underpin our understanding of the evolutionary process as it occurs within DNA. Those advances have, in turn, significantly improved our ability to utilize DNA sequence data for reconstructing evolutionary history, vertebrate phylogeny in particular, from gene sequence data. In Germany he will turn his attention to the investigation of more ancient evolutionary processes and how the process of sequence alignment bears upon that endeavor.