AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion

Biography

Dr. James Lake is Professor in the Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology at the University fo California - Los Angeles. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, served a Post Doc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and research fellowship at the Harvard Medical School. His research interests include genomics and bioimformatics (including the evolution and origin of genomes), the origin of multicellular animals, prokaryotic ancestors of eukaryotes, genomic analysis, computational genomics, and molecular sequence analysis. Among his publications are Lake, J.A., Jain, R., and Rivera, M.C. "Mix and Match in the Tree of Life," Science 283: 2927-2928 (1999) with R. Jain and M.C. Rivera; "Horizontal Gene Transfer and Genome Evolution: The Complexity Hypothesis," Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 96: 3091-3806 (1999) also with R. Jain and M.C. Rivera; and "Why Pauling didn't solve the structure of DNA," Nature 409: 558 (2001).