Uri Alon
Uri Alon | |
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Born | 1969 (age 51–52)[1] |
Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Weizmann Institute of Science |
Known for | Network motifs |
Awards | Overton Prize (2004) |
Scientific career | |
Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science Princeton University |
Doctoral advisor | David Mukamel[2] |
Other academic advisors |
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Website | www |
Uri Alon (Hebrew: אורי אלון; born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science.[4] His highly cited[5] research investigates gene expression,[6] network motifs[7][8] and the design principles of biological networks[9] in Escherichia coli and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques.[10]
Education[]
Alon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics[2][11] from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Career[]
After having his interest in biology sparked, Alon headed to Princeton University for his postdoctoral work in experimental biology. He returned to the Weizmann Institute as a professor.
Alon features in several popular videos on YouTube such as Sunday at the Lab (with Michael Elowitz)[12] and How to Give a Good Talk.[13] As of 2011, he is the author of the most highly bookmarked scientific paper on CiteULike[14] How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem[15] and How to Build a Motivated Research Group.[16]
Awards[]
In 2004 Alon was awarded the Overton Prize[3] for "outstanding accomplishment by a scientist in the early to mid stage of his or her career" by the International Society for Computational Biology. Alon has also been 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),[17]
- Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study fellow 2009[18]
- HFSP Nakasone Award (2014)[19]
References[]
- ^ "Wis-Find: Author Search Results". weizmann.ac.il.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:1996PhRvL..76.2746A. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2746. PMID 10060778. S2CID 26730428.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "ISCB Newsletter 7-3". iscb.org.
- ^ "Homepage - Uri Alon". weizmann.ac.il.
- ^ Uri Alon publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Alon, U.; Barkai, N.; Notterman, D. A.; Gish, K.; Ybarra, S.; Mack, D.; Levine, A. J. (1999). "Broad patterns of gene expression revealed by clustering analysis of tumor and normal colon tissues probed by oligonucleotide arrays". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 96 (12): 6745–6750. Bibcode:1999PNAS...96.6745A. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.12.6745. PMC 21986. PMID 10359783.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2002Sci...298..824M. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.225.8750. doi:10.1126/science.298.5594.824. PMID 12399590.
- ^ Shen-Orr, S. S.; Milo, R.; Mangan, S.; Alon, U. (2002). "Network motifs in the transcriptional regulation network of Escherichia coli". Nature Genetics. 31 (1): 64–68. doi:10.1038/ng881. PMID 11967538. S2CID 2180121.
- ^ Uri Alon (2007). An introduction to systems biology: design principles of biological circuits. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 978-1-58488-642-6.
- ^ List of publications from Microsoft Academic
- ^ "arXiv.org Search". arxiv.org.
- ^ "Uri Alon's Song - Sunday at the Lab co-written with Elowitz" on YouTube
- ^ "How to Give a Good Talk by Uri Alon" on YouTube
- ^ "CiteULike CiteGeist: Popular Papers". Retrieved 2011-06-09.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
- ^ 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. Retrieved 2020-09-16.
- ^ "Uri Alon". f1000.com.
- ^ Radcliffe Fellows
- ^ "2014 HFSP Nakasone Award goes to Uri Alon". hfsp.org.
External links[]
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Members of the European Molecular Biology Organization
- Weizmann Institute of Science faculty
- Overton Prize winners
- Israeli bioinformaticians
- Systems biologists
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem alumni
- Israeli people of Romanian-Jewish descent
- Israeli physicists
- Network scientists