Michael Elowitz

Michael B Elowitz is a biologist and professor of Biology and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology,^[1][2][3] and investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.^[4] In 2007 he was the recipient of the Genius grant, better known as the MacArthur Fellows Program for the design of a synthetic gene regulatory network, the repressilator.

He graduated with a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1992,^[5] and from Princeton University with a Ph.D. in 1999.^[6] He studies cells using synthetic biology, time-lapse microscopy, and mathematical modeling. ^[7]

Early life and education

Elowitz grew up in Los Angeles, California.

While working as a graduate student at Princeton he co-authored the song Sunday at the Lab^[8] with Uri Alon.

Awards

• 2007 MacArthur Fellows Program ^[9]
• 2003 Burroughs Welcome Fund Interfaces award ^[10]

Peer-reviewed publications

• Suel, G. M.; Kulkarni, R. P.; Dworkin, J.; Garcia-Ojalvo, J.; Elowitz, M. B. (2007). "Tunability and Noise Dependence in Differentiation Dynamics". Science 315 (5819): 1716–1719. doi:10.1126/science.1137455. PMID 17379809.  edit
• Süel, G. R. M.; Garcia-Ojalvo, J.; Liberman, L. M.; Elowitz, M. B. (2006). "An excitable gene regulatory circuit induces transient cellular differentiation". Nature 440 (7083): 545–550. doi:10.1038/nature04588. PMID 16554821.  edit
• Sprinzak, D.; Elowitz, M. B. (2005). "Reconstruction of genetic circuits". Nature 438 (7067): 443–448. doi:10.1038/nature04335. PMID 16306982.  edit
• Rosenfeld, N.; Young, J. W.; Alon, U.; Swain, P. S.; Elowitz, M. B. (2005). "Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level". Science 307 (5717): 1962–1965. doi:10.1126/science.1106914. PMID 15790856.  edit
• Elowitz, M. B.; Levine, A. J.; Siggia, E. D.; Swain, P. S. (2002). "Stochastic Gene Expression in a Single Cell". Science 297 (5584): 1183–1186. doi:10.1126/science.1070919. PMID 12183631.  edit
• Guet, C. A. ;L. C.; Elowitz, M. B.; Hsing, W.; Leibler, S. (2002). "Combinatorial Synthesis of Genetic Networks". Science 296 (5572): 1466–1470. doi:10.1126/science.1067407. PMID 12029133.  edit
• Elowitz, M. B.; Leibler, S. (2000). "A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators". Nature 403 (6767): 335–338. doi:10.1038/35002125. PMID 10659856.  edit
• Rosenfeld, N.; Elowitz, M. B.; Alon, U. (2002). "Negative autoregulation speeds the response times of transcription networks". Journal of molecular biology 323 (5): 785–793. doi:10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00994-4. PMID 12417193.  edit
• Elowitz, M. B.; Surette, M. G.; Wolf, P. E.; Stock, J.; Leibler, S. (1997). "Photoactivation turns green fluorescent protein red". Current biology : CB 7 (10): 809–812. doi:10.1016/S0960-9822(06)00342-3. PMID 9368766.  edit

References

1. ^ http://www.elowitz.caltech.edu/people.html
2. ^ http://biology.caltech.edu/Members/Elowitz
3. ^ http://www.aph.caltech.edu/people/elowitz_m.html
4. ^ http://www.hhmi.org/news/elowitz_bio.html
5. ^ Applied Physics at Cal Tech, http://www.aph.caltech.edu/people/elowitz_m.html, retrieved 09-03-2010 
6. ^ http://www.searlescholars.net/go.php?id=27
7. ^ "Gene Circuit Dynamics in Regulation and Differentiation", Howard Hughes Medical Institute
8. ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhncg6GXYq8 Sunday at the Lab performed by Uri Alon
9. ^ http://www.macfound.org/site/c.lkLXJ8MQKrH/b.2913825/apps/nl/content2.asp?content_id={B319FBF7-A99D-48DB-9293-3CF3434EC3C2}&notoc=1
10. ^ https://forms.bwfund.org/news/awardee_profiles/michael_elowitz.html

External links

• "Hacking DNA", IEEE Spectrum, Paul McFedries, October 2009
• "Michael B Elowitz", Scientific Commons
• "Michael Elowitz", Science blog

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