Facts: - doctoral students: desiree vaishali katju , travis kibota , britt koskella , kendall allen morgan , angela omilian , susanne paland , michael pfrender , , sarah schaack , meg snoke-smith , ken spitze , hong-wen michael vanni , lawrence weider deng , suzanne estes , - known for: contributions to population genetics , quantitative genetics , - fields: genetics , population genetics , evolution - workplaces: indiana university - awards: elected , 2009 member of national academy of sciences , usa - birth date: 06 december 1951 - name: michael lynch - citizenship: usa - birth place: auburn , new york , usa - alma mater: university of minnesota Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michael lynch -lrb- geneticist -rrb- .
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michael lynch -lrb- born 1951 -rrb- is distinguished professor of evolution , population genetics and genomics at indiana university , bloomington , indiana .besides many highly acclaimed papers , especially in population genetics , he has written a two volume textbook with bruce walsh , widely considered the '' bible '' of quantitative genetics .he has been a major force in promoting neutral theories to explain genomic architecture based on the effects of population sizes in different lineages ; he presented this point of view comprehensively in his 2007 book '' the origins of genome architecture '' .in 2009 , he was elected to the national academy of sciences -lrb- evolutionary biology -rrb- .lynch was a biology undergraduate at st. bonaventure university and received a b.s. in 1973 .he obtained his phd from the university of minnesota -lrb- ecology and behavioral biology -rrb- in 1977 .