Michael Turelli

Michael Anthony Turelli is an American biologist who is Distinguished Professor of Genetics at the University of California, Davis. His research has focused on issues in quantitative genetics and on the Wolbachia genus of bacteria. He was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and to the National Academy of Sciences in 2021. He was a Guggenheim Fellow at University College London in 1986.[1]

Michael Turelli
Born
EducationUniversity of California, Riverside
University of Washington
Known forResearch on Wolbachia
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (1986)
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005)
Scientific career
FieldsPopulation genetics
Quantitative genetics
Theoretical biology
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Davis
ThesisRandom Environments, Stochastic Calculus and Limiting Similarity (1977)
Doctoral advisorJoe Felsenstein

References

  1. "Michael Turelli". National Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 2022-01-19.


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