Michael Levine

Who is Michael Levine?

Mike Levine is an American developmental biologist at the University of California, Berkeley, notable for co-discovering the Homeobox in 1983 and for discovering the organization of the regulatory regions of developmental genes. Fellow biologist Sean Carroll said of Levine, "Mike's work has done for animal development what the work on the lac operon and phage lambda did for understanding gene regulation in simpler organisms ... [Those] two big discoveries had a very large conceptual significance for developmental biology and by extension for evolutionary biology."