Bio

Gene Levinson is Director of Communications for the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute----part of the UMBI Institutional Advancement team. Gene holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics from the University of California at Irvine, and a Bachelor's in Zoology from U.C. Berkeley. As a graduate student, he developed the leading theory for repetitive DNA sequence evolution, known as slipped-strand mispairing. He taught at Harvard College for three years while he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Medical School, and also did postdoctoral research at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. In addition to basic research, he also brings industrial and clinical experience, having served as a researcher in commercial drug discovery enterprises as well as director of a human clinical genetics laboratory for eight years. Most recently he has been a senior researcher at the National Institutes of Health. With numerous peer-reviewed scientific publications, Gene's passion for some years has also been popular science writing, and he is enthusiastic about making UMBI's research accessible to general audiences, both regionally as well as nationally.