Doctoral advisor David Mukamel Known for Network motifs | Name Uri Alon | |
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Born 1969 (age 45–46) Institutions Weizmann Institute of SciencePrinceton University Alma mater Hebrew University of JerusalemWeizmann Institute of Science Other academic advisors Dov ShvartsStan Leibler Doctoral students Ron MiloAlex SigalNitzan RosenfeldShiraz KalirShmoolik ManganAlon ZaslaverShalev ItzkovitzShai Kaplan Books An introduction to systems biology | ||
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Uri Alon (born 1969) is a Professor and Systems Biologist at the Weizmann Institute of Science. His highly cited research investigates gene expression, network motifs and the design principles of biological networks in Escherichia coli and other organisms using both computational biology and traditional experimental wet laboratory techniques.
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Education
Alon earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and his Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics 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 and How to Give a Good Talk. As of 2011, he is the author of the most highly bookmarked scientific paper on CiteULike How To Choose a Good Scientific Problem and How to Build a Motivated Research Group.
Awards
In 2004 Alon was awarded the Overton Prize 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:
