Jonathan Eisen
- Gender: Male
- Industry: Science
- Occupation: Professor
- Location: Davis : California
About Me
I am an evolutionary biologist and a Professor at U. C. Davis. My lab is in the UC Davis Genome Center and I hold appointments in the Departments of Medical Microbiology and Evolution and Ecology. In addition I hold an Adjunct appointment at the Joint Genome Institute in Walnut Creek, CA.My research focuses on the origin of novelty (how new processes and functions originate). To study this I focus on sequencing and analyzing genomes of organisms, especially microbes and using phylogenomic analysis (see my lab site here). In addition to research, I am heavily involved in the Open Access publishing movement and am Academic Editor in Chief of PLoS Biology. Prior to moving to UC Davis I was on the faculty at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) with an Adjunct Appointment at the Johns Hopkins University. I did my PhD at Stanford studying the evolution of DNA repair processes and my undergraduate studies at Harvard.
Interests
Favorite Movies
Favorite Music
- Red Hot Chili Peppers
- Nirvana
- Bob Dylan
- Mozart
- Eminem
- Hole
- Mary Lou Lord
- Ween
- Lucinda Williams
- Jane's Addiction
- Johnny Cash
- Arlo Guthrie
- Shirley Manson
Favorite Books
- Vineland
- Ship of Gold
- Into Thin Air
- Touching the Void
- The Endurance
- Into the Wild
- The Voyage of the Beagle
- The Omnivores Dilemma
- Catcher in the Rye
