Janis Antonovics
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Janis Antonovics FRS ({{langx|lv|Jānis Antonovics}}; born 1942 in Riga, Reichskommissariat Ostland) is an American biologist, and Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology, at University of Virginia.{{Cite web |url=http://dept.biology.virginia.edu/primary-faculty/single-gallery/7793405 |title=Homepage {{!}} bio.virginia.edu |access-date=2011-10-29 |archive-date=2012-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120831024522/http://dept.biology.virginia.edu/primary-faculty/single-gallery/7793405 |url-status=dead }}
Life
He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School (1953-1960), graduating from Clare College, Cambridge with a B.A. in 1963, and from University of Wales with a Ph.D. in 1966.
He lectured at Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.{{cite web |url=http://www.wiko-berlin.de/index.php?id=196&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Baction%5D=details&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Buid%5D=2285&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Bbackpid%5D=155 |title=Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin: Fellow-Details |accessdate=2011-10-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013172344/http://www.wiko-berlin.de/index.php?id=196&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Baction%5D=details&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Buid%5D=2285&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Bbackpid%5D=155 |archivedate=2012-10-13 }}
Honors
He is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow.{{Cite web |url=http://www.gf.org/fellows/378-janis-antonovics |title=Janis Antonovics - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=2011-10-29 |archive-date=2013-01-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130104004806/http://www.gf.org/fellows/378-janis-antonovics |url-status=dead }}
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988.{{cite web|url = http://royalsociety.org/uploadedFiles/Royal_Society_Content/about-us/fellowship/Fellows1660-2007.pdf|title= Royal Society Fellows 1660-2007|publisher= Royal Society|accessdate = 2010-08-06}} He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1992.{{cite web |title=Janis Antonovics |url=https://www.amacad.org/person/janis-antonovics |website=American Academy of Arts & Sciences |accessdate=3 May 2019 |language=en}} He won the 1999 Sewall Wright Award.
Publications
Antonovics is the author or co-author of well over 150 scientific publications and book chapters from the 1960s until the 2020s. These include:
- Antonovics, J. 2005. "Plant venereal diseases: insights from a messy metaphor". New Phytologist 165: 71–80.{{Cite web |url=http://people.virginia.edu/~ja8n/Publications.html |title=Publications - Antonovics Lab |access-date=2012-12-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004200042/http://people.virginia.edu/~ja8n/Publications.html |archive-date=2013-10-04 |url-status=dead }}
- Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., and Baker, C. H. 2006. "Was the 1918 flu avian in origin?" Nature 440: E9
- Antonovics, J., Abbate, J.L., Baker, C. H., Daley, D., Hood, M. E., Jenkins, C. E., Johnson, L. J., Murray, J. J., Panjeti, V., Volker H. W. Rudolf, V. W. H., Sloan, D., Vondrasek, J. 2007. "Evolution by any other name: antibiotic resistance and avoidance of the e-word". PLOS Biology 5: e30.
- Rudolf, V., and Antonovics, J. 2007. "Disease transmission by cannibalism: rare event or common occurrence?" Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 274:1205-10
- J Antonovics, AD Bradshaw, RG Turner (1971) [https://doi.org/10.1016/S0065-2504(08)60202-0 Heavy metal tolerance in plants.] Advances in ecological research 7 1-85
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20130627013518/http://people.virginia.edu/~ja8n/Home.html Antonovics Lab Website]
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Category:Alumni of the University of Wales
Category:University of Virginia faculty