Lynn W. Enquist

Lynn William Enquist is professor emeritus in molecular biology at Princeton University, as well as founding editor of the journal Annual Review of Virology. His research focuses on neuroinvasive alpha-herpesviruses.

Education In 1963, Enquist graduated from Milbank High School in Milbank, South Dakota. He received a Bachelor of Science in bacteriology from South Dakota State University in 1967. He received his Ph.D. in microbiology from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University in 1971 working with S. Gaylen Bradley to study streptomyces biology.

Research Enquist's laboratory focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms by which neuroinvasive alpha-herpesviruses spread in the mammalian nervous system. and is an inventor on at least four U.S. patents.

Memberships

Enquist is the founding editor of the Annual Review of Virology. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (elected 1994) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (elected 1998). He was also elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2010. He is a past president of both the American Society for Virology (2004–2005), and the American Society for Microbiology (2015). He was a member of the National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity from 2005 to 2007.

Awards Enquist won the Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in 2017.