Michael Eisen

Michael Eisen
Michael Eisen
Born	April 13, 1967 (1967-04-13) (age 44) Boston, MA
Nationality	American
Fields	Biology
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	Harvard College
Doctoral advisor	Don C. Wiley
Known for	Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Notable awards	Benjamin Franklin Award (Bioinformatics)

Michael Eisen (born April 13, 1967) is an American biologist. He is currently an Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Associate Professor of Genetics, Genomics and Development at University of California, Berkeley.^[1][2] His academic research focuses on the evolution of gene regulation.^[3][4]

Throughout his career he has been a forceful advocate for open science - the free release of the material and intellectual product of the scientific research. He is a leading advocate of open access scientific publishing,^[5][6][7] and is co-Founder of Public Library of Science (PLoS). He serves on the PLoS board, and is an advisor to Science Commons. His brother Jonathan Eisen is also a biologist.

References

1. ^ http://www.eisenlab.org/eisen/ Michael Eisen lab
2. ^ http://www.michaeleisen.org/blog Michael Eisen's Blog
3. ^ Eisen, M.; Spellman, P.; Brown, P.; Botstein, D. (1998). "Cluster analysis and display of genome-wide expression patterns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 95 (25): 14863–14868. doi:10.1073/pnas.95.25.14863. PMC 24541. PMID 9843981. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=24541.  edit
4. ^ Alizadeh, A. A.; Eisen, M. B.; Davis, R. E.; Ma, C.; Lossos, I. S.; Rosenwald, A.; Boldrick, J. C.; Sabet, H. et al. (2000). "Distinct types of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma identified by gene expression profiling". Nature 403 (6769): 503–511. doi:10.1038/35000501. PMID 10676951.  edit
5. ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/opinion/story/0,12981,1058578,00.html Publish and Be Praised (Guardian, UK)]
6. ^ Brown, P. O.; Eisen, M. B.; Varmus, H. E. (2003). "Why PLoS Became a Publisher". PLoS Biology 1: 1. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0000036.  edit
7. ^ http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/12.04/rave_pr.html 2004 Wired Magazine Rave Awards "For cracking the spine of the science cartel"

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Name	Eisen, Michael
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Date of birth	April 13, 1967
Place of birth	Boston, MA
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