Janis Antonovics
Encyclopedia
Janis Antonovics FRS (born 1942 Riga, Latvia) is an American biologist
, and Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology, at University of Virginia
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He is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow.
He won the 1999 Sewall Wright Award
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with a Ph.D. in 1966.
He lectured at Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
.
Biologist
A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...
, and Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology, at University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
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He is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow.
He won the 1999 Sewall Wright Award
Sewall Wright Award
The Sewall Wright Award is given annually by the American Society of Naturalists to a "senior-level" and active investigator making fundamental contributions the conceptual unification of the biological sciences. The award was established in 1991 and named after Sewall Wright. The recipient need...
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Life
He graduated from Cambridge University with a B.A. in 1963, and from University of WalesUniversity of Wales
The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...
with a Ph.D. in 1966.
He lectured at Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin
The Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin in an interdisciplinary institute created 1981 in Berlin-Grunewald for studies in natural, social sciences for various research projects. It is a member of the group Some Institutes for Advanced Study....
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Works
- Antonovics, J. 2005. "Plant venereal diseases: insights from a messy metaphor". New Phytologist 165: 71-80.
- 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.