Uri Alon

Uri Alon

Uri Alon
Born 1969 (age 45–46)[1]
Institutions Weizmann Institute of Science
Princeton University
Alma mater Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Weizmann Institute of Science
Doctoral advisor David Mukamel[2]
Other academic advisors
  • Dov Shvarts
  • Stan Leibler[3]
Doctoral students
  • Ron Milo
  • Alex Sigal
  • Nitzan Rosenfeld
  • Shiraz Kalir
  • Shmoolik Mangan
  • Alon Zaslaver
  • Shalev Itzkovitz
  • Shai Kaplan [4][1]
Known for Network motifs
Notable awards Overton Prize (2004)
Website
www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon

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 both computational biology and traditional experimental wet 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 having 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 several popular videos on YouTube such as 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 most 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 of his or her career" by the International Society for Computational Biology. Alon has also been awarded:

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 http://lib-phds1.weizmann.ac.il/vufind/Author/Home?author=Alon%2C%20Uri%2C%201969-
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.iscb.org/images/stories/newsletter/newsletter7-3/overton.html ISCB Newsletter 7-3 Dr. Uri Alon Named as ISCB 2004 Overton Prize Winner
  4. ↑ http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/groupMembers.html Alon Laboratory members and alumni
  5. ↑ http://www.weizmann.ac.il/mcb/UriAlon/ Uri Alon's homepage
  6. ↑ Uri Alon's publications indexed by Google Scholar, a free service provided by Google
  7. ↑ 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. doi:10.1073/pnas.96.12.6745.
  8. ↑ 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. ↑ 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.
  10. ↑ Uri Alon (2007). An introduction to systems biology: design principles of biological circuits. Boca Raton: Chapman & Hall/CRC. ISBN 1-58488-642-0.
  11. ↑ List of publications from Microsoft Academic Search
  12. ↑ http://arxiv.org/find/cond-mat/1/au:+Alon_U/0/1/0/all/0/1 Uri Alon publications from the arXiv e-Print archive
  13. ↑ "Uri Alon's Song - Sunday at the Lab co-written with Elowitz" on YouTube
  14. ↑ " How to Give a Good Talk by Uri Alon" on YouTube
  15. ↑ "CiteULike CiteGeist: Popular Papers". Retrieved 2011-06-09.
  16. ↑ Alon, U. (2009). "How to Choose a Good Scientific Problem". Molecular Cell 35 (6): 726–728. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2009.09.013. PMID 19782018.
  17. ↑ Alon, U. (2010). "How to Build a Motivated Research Group". Molecular Cell 37 (2): 151–152. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2010.01.011. PMID 20122395.
  18. ↑ http://f1000.com/thefaculty/member/4073092881186037 Uri Alon at the Faculty of 1000
  19. ↑ http://www.radcliffe.edu/fellowships/fellows_2010ualon.aspx Radcliffe Fellows
  20. ↑ http://www.hfsp.org/awardees/hfsp-nakasone-award/2014-award 2014 HFSP Nakasone Award

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