Matthew Hahn and Malcolm Winkler, both professors of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences' Department of Biology, have been appointed as distinguished professors—IU's highest academic title for its most outstanding and renowned scholars and researchers.
Matthew Hahn is a professor of biology in the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of computer science in the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering at IU Bloomington. Hahn's contributions have reshaped the fields of evolutionary and population genomics through seminal advances in the dynamics of gene duplication and gene loss, speciation, adaptation, and phylogenomics.
Hahn has developed and made freely available six widely used software programs for evolutionary, population genetic, and genomic analyses. He has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on $17.5 million in external grant funding.
Malcolm Winkler is a professor of biology in IU Bloomington's College of Arts and Sciences. Focused on tackling the problem of antibiotic resistance, Winkler's work has made seminal advances in understanding histidine biosynthesis in Salmonella; in uncovering the detailed mechanism by which transcription attenuation moderates tryptophan biosynthesis in E. coli; and toward understanding fundamental biological mechanisms in Streptococcus pneumonia.
Winkler is part of a community of chemists and microbiologists who are tackling the problem of antibiotic resistance. He has been a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Bacteriology for 33 years.
Indiana University trustees approved the appointment of 11 faculty members as distinguished professors this year. Since the adoption of distinguished titles in 1953, IU has honored 254 scholars, scientists, artists and musicians with this recognition. There are currently 98 distinguished professors on the IU faculty.
"IU's newest distinguished professors have all made major contributions to their fields of study where they are all widely respected and have earned international recognition and acclaim," IU President Michael A. McRobbie said. "Their remarkable research and creative activity represent the pinnacle of what it means to be a researcher and scholar. And it is a comment on IU's standing as a great research university that it is able to sustain such excellence in such a wide variety of disciplines from the humanities through the sciences to medicine."
This article is republished in part from Indiana University's Administration News at IU.
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