Bruce R. Levin

Professor Bruce R. Levin is the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Biology at Emory University. He is considered a pioneer in the study of the population biology and evolution of bacteria and their viruses and plasmid. Levin elucidated resource-based competition, host-parasite coevolution, genetic diversity, and the genetic structure of bacterial populations. His current research includes theoretical and experimental studies of the evolution of virulence in microparasites, and the epidemiology and within-host population and evolutionary dynamics of bacterial infections, antibiotic treatment, antibiotic resistance and its control.