CURRICULUM VITAE

Research Area

Prebiotic evolution, Genomics, bioinformatics, sensory receptors

Focus Area

Computer models for lipid world, Genomic databases, genetics and evolution of olfactory

Short Bio

Doron Lancet studied chemistry and immunology in Israel, and had postdoctoral training at Harvard and at Yale, USA. At the Weizmann Institute of Science he headed the Department of Membrane Research and Biophysics, and is now Professor at the department of Molecular Genetics. He is Head of the Crown Human Genome Center and Director of Israel’s National Knowledge Center for Genomics. He discovered the molecular basis of smell transduction, and currently studies the genomics and population genetics of human olfaction. He also developed GeneCards, a widely used web-based gene compendium. In the area of life’s origin, he developed the computer-simulated GARD/Lipid World model.