Dan Graur
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BornJuly 24, 1953 (age 72)
Piatra Neamț, Romania
InstitutionsUniversity of Houston
Tel Aviv University
University of Tübingen
Tel Aviv University
University of Tübingen
Dan Graur | |
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| Born | July 24, 1953 (age 72) Piatra Neamț, Romania |
| Alma mater | Tel Aviv University University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | molecular evolution genome evolution |
| Institutions | University of Houston Tel Aviv University University of Tübingen |
| Thesis | Studies on the Patterns of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Substitution (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Masatoshi Nei |
| Website | nsm |
Dan Graur \ˈɡra.ur\ (born July 24, 1953, in Piatra Neamț) is a Romanian-American scientist working in the field of molecular evolution.[1][2] 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.[3] His Molecular and Genome Evolution[4] was published in 2016.
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.
