Uri Alon
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Uri Alon
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55)[3] |
| Alma mater | Hebrew University of Jerusalem Weizmann Institute of Science |
| Known for | Network motifs |
| Awards | Overton Prize (2004) |
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| Institutions | Weizmann Institute of Science Princeton University |
| Doctoral advisor | David Mukamel[1] |
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| Doctoral students | Ron Milo |
| 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]inEscherichia coli and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques.[10]
Alon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D.inTheoretical Physics[1][11] from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
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]
In 2021 he was appointed visiting professor in the bioengineering department of Stanford University. He is a member of the IBS Biomedical Mathematics Group.[17]
Uri Alon significantly contributed to our understanding of gene regulatory networks and generalized the term network motif in 2002.[18][19][20]
Together with his team, he reunited different theories of endocrine feedback loops by introducing the closely related concepts of dynamical compensation and autoimmune surveillance of hypersecreting mutants (ASHM).[21][22][23] The theories are able to explain a plethora of phenomena ranging from circannual endocrine rhythms[24] over type 2 diabetes[25] and other common endocrine disorders[26]toalcohol addiction[27] and age-related diseases.[28]
In 2004 Alon was awarded the Overton Prize[2] 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:
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