Rate My Professor Harmit Malik

Malik received a BTech in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1993 and a PhD in Biology from the University of Rochester in 1999, focusing on retrotransposon origins under Tom Eickbush. He conducted postdoctoral research in Steve Henikoff's laboratory at Fred Hutch, funded by a Helen Hay Whitney Foundation fellowship. Key publications include "The centromere paradox: stable inheritance with rapidly evolving DNA" (Science, 2001), "Phylogenomics of the nucleosome" (Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 2003), "Positive selection of primate TRIM5α identifies a critical species-specific retroviral restriction domain" (PNAS, 2005), and "A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing" (Nature, 2020). His contributions have earned election to the National Academy of Sciences (2019), American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022), Edward Novitski Prize from the Genetics Society of America (2022), Vilcek Prize (2010), Burroughs Wellcome Award (2006), and other distinctions, underscoring his profound influence on understanding genome evolution and genetic conflicts.