Carl Bergstrom

Carl Theodore Bergstrom
Institutions University of Washington
Santa Fe Institute
Stanford University
Alma mater Stanford University
Thesis Game-theoretic models of signalling among relatives (1998)
Doctoral advisor Marcus Feldman[1]
Known for Evolution textbook[2]
Eigenfactor[3]
Notable awards SPARC Innovator Award (2007)
Spouse Holly Ann Bergstrom[1]
Website
octavia.zoology.washington.edu

Carl Theodore Bergstrom is a theoretical and evolutionary biologist and a professor at the University of Washington in Seattle, with a secondary appointment at the Santa Fe Institute.[4]

Education

Bergstrom completed his PhD at Stanford University under the supervision of Marcus Feldman[1] in 1998.

Research

Bergstrom's work concerns the flow of information through biological and social networks[5] and the ecology and evolution, including the development of resistance, of pathogenic organisms.[6][7][8][9][10][11] He is the coauthor (with Lee Dugatkin) of the college textbook Evolution.[2]

In addition to evolutionary biology, Bergstrom's interests include the ranking of scientific journals; in 2007 he introduced the Eigenfactor[3] metrics for journal ranking.[12] This and related work on open access earned him and his father, Ted Bergstrom, the SPARC Innovator award in June 2007.[13]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bergstrom, Carl (1998). Game-theoretic models of signalling among relatives (PhD thesis). Stanford University.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dugatkin, Lee Alan; Bergstrom, Carl Theodore (2011). Evolution. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-92592-7.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Bergstrom, C. T.; West, J. D.; Wiseman, M. A. (2008). "The Eigenfactor™ Metrics". Journal of Neuroscience 28 (45): 11433–11434. doi:10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0003-08.2008. PMID 18987179.
  4. ↑ Carl Bergstrom's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  5. ↑ Bergstrom, CT; Lachmann, M (2006). "The fitness value of information". arXiv:q-bio.PE/0510007 [q-bio.PE].
  6. ↑ Antia, R.; Regoes, R. R.; Koella, J. C.; Bergstrom, C. T. (2003). "The role of evolution in the emergence of infectious diseases". Nature 426 (6967): 658–661. doi:10.1038/nature02104. PMID 14668863.
  7. ↑ Levin, B. R. (2000). "Bacteria are different: Observations, interpretations, speculations, and opinions about the mechanisms of adaptive evolution in prokaryotes". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 97 (13): 6981–6985. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.13.6981.
  8. ↑ Bergstrom, C. T. (2004). "Ecological theory suggests that antimicrobial cycling will not reduce antimicrobial resistance in hospitals". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (36): 13285–13290. doi:10.1073/pnas.0402298101.
  9. ↑ Lipsitch, M.; Bergstrom, C. T.; Levin, B. R. (2000). "The epidemiology of antibiotic resistance in hospitals: Paradoxes and prescriptions". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 97 (4): 1938–1943. doi:10.1073/pnas.97.4.1938. PMC 26540. PMID 10677558.
  10. ↑ Rosvall, M.; Bergstrom, C. T. (2008). "Maps of random walks on complex networks reveal community structure". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (4): 1118. doi:10.1073/pnas.0706851105.
  11. ↑ Rosvall, M.; Bergstrom, C. T. (2007). "An information-theoretic framework for resolving community structure in complex networks". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (18): 7327. doi:10.1073/pnas.0611034104.
  12. ↑ C. T. Bergstrom (May 2007). "Eigenfactor: Measuring the value and prestige of scholarly journals". College & Research Libraries News 68 (5): 314–316.
  13. ↑ SPARC Innovators, June 2007: Ted Bergstrom and Carl Bergstrom (WebCite copy)

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