Uri Alon

Uri Alon (born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science . [5] His highly Cited [6] research Investigates gene expression , [7] network motifs [8] [9] and the design principles of biological networks [10] in Escherichia coli and other organisms using zowel computational biology and traditional experimental law laboratory techniques. [11]

Education

Alon earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics [2] [12] from the Weizmann Institute of Science .

Career

After retaining his interest in biology sparked, Alon headed for his Postdoctoral work at Princeton University in experimental biology returning to the Weizmann Institute as a professor.

Alon features in verschillende popular videos on YouTube zoals Sunday at the Lab (with Michael Elowitz [13] and How to Give a Good Talk . [14] As of 2011, he is the author of the musts highly bookmarked scientific paper on CiteULike [ 15] How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem [16] and How to Build a Motivated Research Group . [17]

Awards

In 2004, Alon was Awarded the Overton Prize [3] for “outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage or his or re career” at the International Society for Computational Biology . Alon has ook leg Awarded:

  • Moore Fellowship, California Institute of Technology (2000)
  • EMBO Young Investigator Award (2001)
  • IBM Faculty Award (2003)
  • Minerva Junior Research Group on Biological Computation (2003)
  • Morris L. Levinson Award in Biology (2003)
  • Teva Founders Prize (2005)
  • European Molecular Biology Organization Membership (2007), [18]
  • Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study Fellow in 2009 [19]
  • HFSP Nakasone Award (2014) [20]

References

  1. ^ Jump up to:a b “Clear-Find: Author Search Results” . weizmann.ac.il .
  2. ^ Jump up to:a b Alon, U .; Evans, M .; Hinrichsen, H .; Mukamel, D. (1996). “Roughening Transition in a One-Dimensional Growth Process”. Physical Review Letters . 76 (15): 2746-2749. arXiv : cond-mat / 9512069 . Bibkey : 1996PhRvL..76.2746A . doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.76.2746 . PMID  10060778 .
  3. ^ Jump up to:a b “ISCB Newsletter 7-3” . iscb.org .
  4. Jump up^ Alon Laboratory members and alumni
  5. Jump up^ “Homepage – Uri Alon” . weizmann.ac.il .
  6. Jump up^ Uri Alon’s publicationsindexed byGoogle Scholar
  7. Jump up^ Alon, U .; Barkai, N .; Notterman, DA; Gish, K .; Ybarra, S .; Mack, D .; Levine, AJ (1999). “Broad patterns of gene expression revealed by clustering analysis of tumor and normal colon tissues probed with oligonucleotide arrays”. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . 96 (12): 6745-6750. doi : 10.1073 / pnas.96.12.6745 .
  8. Jump up^ Milo, R .; Shen-Orr, S .; Itzkovitz, S .; Kashtan, N .; Chklovskii, D .; Alon, U. (2002). “Network Motifs: Simple Building Blocks of Complex Networks”. Science . 298 (5594): 824-827. doi : 10.1126 / science.298.5594.824 . PMID  12399590 .
  9. Jump up^ Shen-Orr, SS; Milo, R .; Mangan, S .; Alon, U. (2002). “Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network or Escherichia coli.” Nature Genetics . 31 (1): 64-68. doi : 10.1038 / ng881 . PMID  11967538 .
  10. Jump up^ Uri Alon (2007). An introduction to systems biology, design principles of biological circuits . Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall / CRC. ISBN  1-58488-642-0 .
  11. Jump up^ List of publicationsfromMicrosoft Academic Search
  12. Jump up^ “arXiv.org Search” . arxiv.org .
  13. Jump up^ “Uri Alon’s Song – Sunday at the Lab co-written with Elowitz”onYouTube
  14. Jump up^ “How to Give a Good Talk to Uri Alon” onYouTube
  15. Jump up^ “CiteULike CiteGeist: Best Papers” . Retrieved 2011-06-09 .
  16. Jump up^ Alon, U. (2009). “How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem”(PDF) . Molecular Cell . 35 (6): 726-728. doi : 10.1016 / j.molcel.2009.09.013 . PMID  19782018 .
  17. Jump up^ Alon, U. (2010). “How to Build a Motivated Research Group”(PDF) . Molecular Cell . 37 (2): 151-152. doi : 10.1016 / j.molcel.2010.01.011 . PMID  20122395 .
  18. Jump up^ “Uri Alon” . f1000.com .
  19. Jump up^ Radcliffe Fellows
  20. Jump up^ “2014 HFSP Nakasone Award goes to Uri Alon” . hfsp.org .