1. Michael Bruce Eisen was born on April 13,1967 and is an American computational biologist and the former editor-in-chief of the journal eLife.
20 Facts About Michael Eisen
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Michael Eisen is a professor of genetics, genomics and development at University of California, Berkeley.
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Michael Eisen is a leading advocate of open access scientific publishing and is co-founder of Public Library of Science.
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In 2018, Eisen announced his candidacy US Senate from California as an Independent, though he failed to qualify for the ballot.
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Michael Eisen was under the supervision of Don Craig Wiley while studying Influenza A virus Proteins.
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The seminal research publication that Michael Eisen authored about this project has been cited over 16,000 times.
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When Michael Eisen lived in Tennessee he worked as a play-by-play announcer for a minor league baseball team, the Columbia Mules.
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Michael Eisen says they hold insights into what goes wrong in people as they age.
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Michael Eisen announced through Twitter on January 25 his intent to run for US Senate from California in 2018 for Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein's seat, registering the Twitter handle SenatorPhD.
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Michael Eisen dropped out of the race when he failed to qualify for the June 2018 primary ballot.
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In 2019, Michael Eisen was named the second editor-in-chief of the open-access scientific journal eLife.
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Some researchers were not amused by the joke, and the eLife board asked Michael Eisen to watch his language on Twitter.
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Also in 2020, Michael Eisen was involved in the story surrounding the death from SARS-CoV-2 of an anonymous queer Hopi female professor with whom he had interacted on Twitter.
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Michael Eisen was one of three people to attend a Zoom memorial for the fictional individual.
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Michael Eisen said that the move was intended to reduce the prominence of the publisher, and instead focus attention on authors and their work.
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In March 2023,29 eLife editors, including founding editor-in-chief and Nobel Prize winner Randy Schekman, urged that Michael Eisen should be replaced immediately in a letter to the executive editor of the journal's publisher.
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Michael Eisen tweeted on March 12,2023, that academics were "lobbying hard to get me fired", a post that was deleted.
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The chair of eLife's board asked Michael Eisen to delete his Twitter post, but he refused to do so "because that would be capitulating to what I thought was a really misdirected effort to silence any expression of support of Palestinians".
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In 2012 Michael Eisen began protesting against the Research Works Act as part of his appeal to promote open access to information.
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In 2002, Michael Eisen was awarded the inaugural Benjamin Franklin Award in bioinformatics, for his work on PLOS and the open-access availability of his microarray cluster analysis software.