Michael W. Gray | personal information

Education

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B.Sc. (Biochemistry), University of Alberta, Edmonton (1964)

Ph.D. (Biochemistry), University of Alberta, Edmonton (1968)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (1968-70)

Academic Positions

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Assistant Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University (July 1, 1970)

Associate Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University (January 1, 1977)

Professeur Invité, Université de Paris-Sud, Centre D'Orsay, Biologie Moléculaire Végétale (February 1983)

Full Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Dalhousie University (July 1, 1983)

Visiting Scientist, Department of Pathology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA (July 1984 - June 1985)

Visiting Professor (Genetics Program), Duke University, Durham, NC (September 1994 - August 1995)

Carnegie and Rockefeller Head, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University (July 1, 2004 - June 30, 2007)

Professor Emeritus, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Dalhousie University (January 1, 2009)

Activities, Memberships and Associations

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SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB)

Canadian Society of Biochemistry, Molecular and Cellular Biology (CSBMCB)

Genetics Society of Canada (GSC)

International Society for Evolutionary Protistology (ISEP)

International Symbiosis Society

The RNA Society

JOURNAL EDITORIAL BOARDS

Member, Editorial Board, Plant Science (1983-87)

Member, Editorial Board, The FASEB Journal (1990-96)

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Molecular Evolution (1991-2000)

Associate Editor, Plant Molecular Biology (1995-99)

Member, Editorial Board, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution (1999-01)

Founding Editorial Board, IUBMB Life (1999- )

Editorial Board, BMC Evolutionary Biology (2005-08)

Honours

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Scholarship, Medical Research Council of Canada (1973-78)

APICS/Fraser Medal, Atlantic Provinces Council on the Sciences (1982)

Max Forman Research Prize (Senior), Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation (1986)

Fellowship, Evolutionary Biology Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (1987-2007)
(named Confederation Fellow, Nov. 25, 1987)

Boehringer Mannheim Canada Prize, Canadian Biochemical Society (1987)

First Recipient, Award of Merit, Canadian Society for Plant Molecular Biology (1993)

Elected Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (1996)

Wellcome Visiting Professorship in the Basic Medical Sciences (1998-99), Burroughs Wellcome Fund

Canada Research Chair in Genomics and Genome Evolution (2001-2008)

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Revised  February 2009