Harris Lewin, a prominent genome scientist, leads the Earth BioGenome Project one of biology’s most ambitious projects to provide a complete DNA catalog of the genetic code for life on Earth. EBP is a worldwide coalition of scientists and 50-plus ongoing projects, that aims to complete high-quality DNA reference genomes for all higher organisms on Earth, an estimated 1.8 million species.

Lewin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and won the Wolf Prize in Agriculture for his research into cattle genomics. Prior to ASU, Lewin served as distinguished professor of evolution and ecology and former vice chancellor for research at University of California-Davis. He's a leader in the field of mammalian comparative genomics and has made major contributions to the understanding of chromosome evolution and its relationship to adaptation, speciation and the origins of cancers.