Janis Antonovics
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Janis Antonovics FRS (born 1942 Riga, Latvia) is an Latvian-born American biologist, and Lewis and Clark Professor of Biology, at University of Virginia.[1]
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Life
He was educated at Gravesend Grammar School (1953-1960), graduating from Cambridge University with a B.A. in 1963, and from University of Wales with a Ph.D. in 1966. He lectured at Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin.[2]
Honors
He is a 1991 Guggenheim Fellow.[3] He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1988.[4] He won the 1999 Sewall Wright Award.
Works
- Antonovics, J. 2005. "Plant venereal diseases: insights from a messy metaphor". New Phytologist 165: 71-80.[5]
- Antonovics, J., Hood, M. E., and Baker, C. H. 2006. "Was the 1918 flu avian in origin?" Nature 440: E9[5]
- 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.[5]
- 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 [5]
References
- ↑ Homepage | bio.virginia.edu
- ↑ http://www.wiko-berlin.de/index.php?id=196&no_cache=1&L=1&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Baction%5D=details&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Buid%5D=2285&tx_wikofellows_pi1%5Bbackpid%5D=155[dead link]
- ↑ Janis Antonovics - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Publications - Antonovics Lab
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Categories:
- Articles with dead external links from November 2013
- 1942 births
- American biologists
- Latvian biologists
- People from Riga
- Fellows of the Royal Society
- Guggenheim Fellows
- Living people
- Latvian emigrants to the United States
- People educated at Gravesend Grammar School
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Alumni of the University of Wales
- University of Virginia faculty
