- Stuart Newman
Stuart Alan Newman (born
April 4 ,1945 inNew York City ) is aprofessor ofcell biology andanatomy atNew York Medical College in Valhalla, NY,United States . His research interests center around three program areas: cellular and molecular mechanisms ofvertebrate limb development, physical mechanisms ofmorphogenesis , and mechanisms of morphologicalevolution . He also writes extensively about social and cultural aspects of biological research and technology.Newman received an
A.B. from Columbia University in 1965 and aPh.D. inchemical physics from theUniversity of Chicago in 1970. His post-doctoral studies were at the Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Chicago (1970-71) and the School of Biological Sciences,University of Sussex , UK (1971-72). He has been a visiting professor at thePasteur Institute ,Paris , the "Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique "-Saclay , theIndian Institute of Science ,Bangalore , the University of Tokyo, Komaba, and was a Fogarty Senior International Fellow atMonash University ,Australia . He is a member of the External Faculty of theKonrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research ,Austria , an affiliated faculty member of the Biocomplexity Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, and a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Biosciences, published by theIndian Academy of Sciences ,Bangalore . He was a founding member of theCouncil for Responsible Genetics , Cambridge, MA and is a Fellow of theInstitute on Biotechnology and the Human Future , Chicago, IL. He is also a director of theIndigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism , Nixon, NV.Newman's work in
developmental biology includes a proposed mechanism for patterning of the vertebrate limbskeleton based on theself-organization of embryonic tissues. He has also characterized a biophysical effect in extracellular matrices populated with cells or nonliving particles, "Matrix-Driven Translocation," that provides a physical model for morphogenesis of mesenchymal tissues.With the evolutionary biologist Gerd B. Müller, Newman co-edited the book "
Origination of Organismal Form " (MIT Press, 2003). This book onevolutionary developmental biology is a collection papers by various researchers on generative mechanisms that were plausibly involved in the origination of disparate body forms during theEdiacaran and early Cambrian periods. Particular attention is given to epigenetic factors, such as physical determinants and environmental parameters, that may have led to the spontaneous emergence of body plans and organ forms during a period when multicellular organisms had relatively plastic morphologies.Natural selection acting on variant genotypes is suggested to have then "locked in" these body plans.He is co-author, with the physicist Gabor Forgacs, of the textbook "Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo" (Cambridge University Press, 2005).
ee also
*"Playing God" argument
*"Frankenstein" argument
*Parahuman External links
* [http://www.nymc.edu/sanewman/ New York Medical College: Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D.]
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