Eugene V. Koonin – Short CV

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Eugene V. Koonin is an NIH Distinguished Investigator, the leader of the Evolutionary Genomics Group at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the NIH. Dr. Koonin’s research focuses on genome evolution, especially in microbes and viruses, host-parasite coevolution, and more specifically, functions and evolution of antivirus defense systems, in particular, CRISPR-Cas. Dr. Koonin is the author of the concept and implementation of Clusters of Orthologous Genes which are central to comparative and evolutionary genomics. Dr. Koonin’s work on virus evolution led to the development of a new global taxonomy of viruses that has been officially adopted by the International Committee on  Taxonomy of Viruses and is implemented in all leading biological databases including GenBank. Dr. Koonin is the author of the 2011 book “The Logic of Chance” which outlines a new synthesis of Evolutionary Biology. He also develops mathematical models of various evolutionary process and works on general theory of evolution based on physical principles. Dr. Koonin has published about 1100 research and review papers, many in top scientific journals, that have been cited more than 250,000 times. His h-index is 237 according to Google Scholar. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, National Academy of Medicine of the USA, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and American Academy of Microbiology, and a Foreign Associate of the EuropeanMolecular Biology Organization and Academia Europea.