Petra Levin

Petra Anne Levin is an American microbiologist. She is a professor in the department of biology and co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences Graduate Program at Washington University in St. Louis.

Education and early career

Levin graduated, cum laude, from Williams College with a bachelor of arts in biology in 1989. She worked as a science teacher at the American School in Switzerland from 1989 to 1990. Levin completed a doctor of philosophy in biology from Harvard University in 1996. Her dissertation was titled Asymmetric Division During Spore Formation in Bacillus subtillis. Her doctoral advisor was Richard Losick. Levin was a postdoctoral fellow in the MIT Department of Biology under advisor Alan Grossman.^[1]

Career

Levin was an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis in the department of biology. She was an associate professor from 2008 to 2015 before becoming a professor. In 2015, she became the co-director of the Plant and Microbial Biosciences Graduate Program at Washington University.^[1]

Levin became a member of the editorial advisory board of Molecular Microbiology in 2008. In 2016, Levin became a front matter editor of PLOS Genetics. In 2018, she became an editorial board member of Current Biology.^[1]

Awards and honors

Levin was awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award in 2005. She was a Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands from 2015 to 2016.^[2]

References

1. Levin, Petra Anne (April 2018). "Petra Anne Levin CV" (PDF). Washington University in St. Louis. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-02-18. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
2. "Petra Levin | The Levin Lab". pages.wustl.edu. Archived from the original on 2019-03-20. Retrieved 2019-02-18.

External links

• Petra Levin publications indexed by Google Scholar