Eugene Koonin - Biography#

BS (Biochemistry), Moscow State University, 1978. PhD (Molecular Biology), Moscow State University, 1983. Researcher and Senior Researcher, Institute of Poliomyelitis, Russian Academy of Medical Science, Moscow Region, 1983-1988. Senior Researcher, Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1988-1990. Chief, Laboratory of Gene Systematics and Bacterial Evolution, Institute of Microbiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1990-1991. Visiting Scientist, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, 1991-1996. Senior Investigator, National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, NIH, Bethesda, 1996-. NIH Distinguished Investigator, 2019-.

Member: American Academy of Microbiology, Society of Biology, UK; American College of Medical Informatics; American Academy of Arts and Sciences; National Academy of Science; European Molecular Biology Organization; Russian Academy of Sciences. Recipient of: National Library of Medicine Regents Award, 1999; Israel Pollack Distinguished Lectureship Award, Technion, Haifa, Israel, 2011; NIH Director's Award, 2016; Benjamin Franklin Award, 2019 . Doctoris Honoris Causa: Universite Aix-Marseille; Wageningen Universtiy. Chair, Gordon Research Conference on “Structural, Functional and Evolutionary Genomics”, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, 2007. Editor in Chief, Biology Direct, 2005-2019. Associate Editor, Genome Biology and Evolution, 2009-2018.