Editors for Physics of Living Systems
Senior editors
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Naama Barkai
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Naama Barkai is a systems and computational biologist interested in how bio-molecular circuits are designed. She joined the Weizmann Institute in 1999, following a post-doc (Princeton) and graduate studies (Hebrew University) in physics. She is currently chair of the Department of Molecular Genetics, and the head of the Azrieli and Kahan Centers for Systems Biology at the Weizmann Institute. In 2013, Barkai was elected to a Vallee Foundation Visiting Professorship and awarded the Abisch Frankel prize.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Genetics and Genomics
- Research focus
- systems biology
- modeling
- functional genomics
- yeast genetics
- morphogen gradients
- Competing interests statement
- Naama Barkai's main funding sources are from the European Research Council (ERC), the Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP), the Israel Science Foundation (ISF), Minerva, and the Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF). Barkai also serves on the editorial board of Development.
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Arup K Chakraborty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Arup K Chakraborty is the Robert T Haslam Professor of Chemical Engineering, Physics, Chemistry, and Biological Engineering at MIT. He is the founding Director of MIT’s Institute for Medical Engineering and Science. He is also a founding steering committee member of the Ragon Institute of MIT, MGH, and Harvard, and an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard. After obtaining his PhD in chemical engineering and postdoctoral studies, he joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in December 1988. He rose through the ranks, and ultimately served as the Warren and Katherine Schlinger Distinguished Professor and Chair of Chemical Engineering, Professor of Chemistry, and Professor of Biophysics at Berkeley. He was also Head of Theoretical and Computational Biology at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In September 2005, Chakraborty moved to MIT.
His entire career has been focused on research at the intersection of disciplines. After an early career in engineering of polymers and catalysts, since 2000 Chakraborty’s work has focused on bringing together immunology and the physical and engineering sciences; more specifically, the intersection of statistical mechanics and immunology. His interests span T-cell signaling, T-cell development and repertoire, and a mechanistic understanding of HIV evolution, antibody evolution, and vaccine design. Chakraborty’s work at the intersection of disciplines has been recognized by numerous honors, including the NIH Director’s Pioneer Award, the EO Lawrence Medal for Life Sciences from the US DOE, the Allan P Colburn and Professional Progress awards from the AIChE, a Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar award, and a National Young investigator award. Chakraborty was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering for completely different bodies of work. He is also a member of the National Academy of Medicine, making him one of 21 individuals who are members of all three branches of the US National Academies. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and serves on the US Defense Science Board. Chakraborty has received four teaching awards at Berkeley and MIT.
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Immunology and Inflammation
- Physics of Living Systems
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Research focus
- computational biology
- immunology
- statistical mechanics
- signaling
- virology
- protein evolution
- Competing interests statement
- Arup Chakraborty is funded by the NIH and the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard.
Reviewing editors
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Patricia Bassereau
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- membrane biophysics
- intracellular trafficking
- membrane shaping mechanisms
- biomimetic membrane systems
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Raymond E Goldstein
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active matter
- multicellularity
- biomechanics
- biological fluid dynamics
- cytoskeleton
- flagella
- Experimental organism
- Chlamydomonas
- Volvox
- Chara
- choanoflagellates
- B. subtilis
- E. coli
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Tony Hyman
Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany
- Expertise
- Cell Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- cell division
- cytokinesis
- cell polarity
- organelles
- Experimental organism
- C. elegans
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Frank Jülicher
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Germany
- Expertise
- Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- active cellular processes
- physics of the cytoskeleton and motor proteins
- physics of cell division
- tissues and developmental processes
- biophysics of hearing
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Tam Mignot
Aix-Marseille University, France
- Expertise
- Microbiology and Infectious Disease
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- signal transduction
- motility
- bacterial development
- bacterial cell biology
- Experimental organism
- myxococcus xanthus
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Richard A Neher
University of Basel, Switzerland
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Evolutionary Biology
- Research focus
- population genetics
- evolution of RNA viruses
- bioinformatics
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Pierre Sens
Institut Curie, France
- Expertise
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- physics of living matter
- physics and organization of cellular processes
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Aleksandra Walczak
Ecole normale superieure, France
- Expertise
- Computational and Systems Biology
- Physics of Living Systems
- Research focus
- systems biology
- gene regulatory networks
- immune system
- population genetics
- Experimental organism
- zebrafish
