Prof. Samuel Levy J. Craig Venter Institute, USA

Samuel Levy is the Director of Human Genomics at the J. Craig Venter Institute. He has an ongoing interest in characterizing and refining the structure and function of the genome and epigenome in human populations. Dr. Levy was the leading scientist on the first published diploid genome sequence of a... read morehuman, J. Craig Venter (PLoS Biology 5, e254), and he leads ongoing studies of functional characterization of DNA variants in protein coding and cis-regulatory regions. Dr. Levy received a BSc in molecular biophysics at the University of Leeds, UK in 1982 and his PhD in cell and computational biology at the University of Bristol, UK in 1986.