Dan Graur
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|birth_date = {{birth-date and age|July 24, 1953}}
|birth_place = Piatra Neamț, Romania
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| fields = molecular evolution
genome evolution
| workplaces = University of Houston
Tel Aviv University
University of Tübingen
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| alma_mater = Tel Aviv University
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
| thesis_title = Studies on the Patterns of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Substitution
| thesis_url = https://www.proquest.com/docview/303394584
| thesis_year = 1985
| doctoral_advisor = Masatoshi Nei
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}}Dan Graur \ˈɡra.ur\ (born July 24, 1953, in Piatra Neamț) is a Romanian-American scientist working in the field of molecular evolution.[http://www.bchs.uh.edu/people/faculty/faculty-alpha/index.php?155622-961-5=dgraur Faculty profile], Department of Molecular Biology, University of Houston. Accessed May 29, 2011{{Scopus|id= 7004525157 }} He is a Moores Professor at the University of Houston and Professor Emeritus of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is coauthor along with Wen-Hsiung Li of Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution.{{cite book |author1=Dan Graur |author2-link= Wen-Hsiung Li |author2= Wen-Hsiung Li |year=2000 |title=Fundamentals of Molecular Evolution: Second Edition. |publisher=Sinauer Associates, Inc. |isbn=0878932666}} His Molecular and Genome Evolution{{cite book |author1=Dan Graur |year=2016 |title=Molecular and Genome Evolution. |publisher=Sinauer Associates, Inc. |isbn=978-0878932665}} was published in 2016.
Education
Dan Graur earned a B.Sc. in biology and an M.Sc. in Zoology from Tel Aviv University. In 1985 Graur received his Ph.D. at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston for research supervised by Masatoshi Nei. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Tübingen, Germany.
Career
From 1986 to 2003 he worked in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University. He retired in 2006 as Norman and Rose Lederer Professor Emeritus of Zoology. In 2003, he moved to the University of Houston. From 2009 to 2011 he has held the position of Councillor for the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution. Graur has been noted for his criticisms of the ENCODE project.{{Cite journal | last1 = Graur | first1 = D. | authorlink1 = Dan Graur| last2 = Zheng | first2 = Y. | last3 = Price | first3 = N. | last4 = Azevedo | first4 = R. B. R. | last5 = Zufall | first5 = R. A. | last6 = Elhaik | first6 = E. | authorlink6 = Eran Elhaik| doi = 10.1093/gbe/evt028 | title = On the Immortality of Television Sets: "Function" in the Human Genome According to the Evolution-Free Gospel of ENCODE | journal = Genome Biology and Evolution | volume = 5 | issue = 3 | pages = 578–590 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23431001| pmc = 3622293}}
Awards and honors
In 2011 Graur was awarded the Humboldt Prize.[http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2011articles/Feb2011/022111GraurHumboldt.php Top-tier Work Earns UH Biologist Prestigious Humboldt Prize], News&Events, February 21, 2011, University of Houston. Accessed May 29, 2011 In 2015, he was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2014/November/1124AAAS.php|title = Two University of Houston Scientists Elected as AAAS Fellows}}
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Category:University of Houston faculty
Category:Romanian emigrants to the United States
Category:University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston alumni
Category:Jewish American scientists
Category:American people of Romanian-Jewish descent
Category:People from Piatra Neamț
Category:Tel Aviv University alumni