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Dr. Levine was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1998 in recognition of his elegant, insightful, and complete analysis of regulatory events that govern segmentation and dorsal-ventral polarity in fruit fly embryos. His work provided a dramatic example of combinatorial regulation at a complex enhancer and established new paradigms for transcriptional control.
Dr. Levine studies regulatory DNA and cell fate specification. His laboratory uses new technologies to manipulate embryos in myriad ways to understand how crude gradients of regulatory factors produce sharp on/off patterns of gene expression. These technologies have made possible a geometric growth in the gene-based approach to developmental biology. Because his own research has been so dependent on the latest technology, Dr. Levine is well positioned to help the Stowers Institute achieve its goal of developing and using technology to enable investigators to pursue new paths of inquiry.
Dr. Levine was appointed to the Stowers Institute Scientific Advisory Board in 1998. He has a Ph.D. from Yale University and is Director of the Center for Integrative Genomics and Professor of Genetics in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California-Berkeley. | 