Albert Goldbeter
Albert Goldbeter is a Belgian theoretical biologist ( chronobiology ).
Life
Goldbeter studied at the Free University of Brussels with a licentiate degree in chemistry in 1969 and a doctorate with Ilya Prigogine in 1973. As a post-doctoral student he was at the Weizmann Institute and the University of California, Berkeley with Daniel Koshland . In 1988 he received his habilitation (Agrégation de l'Enseignement Supérieur) in Brussels. He is professor and head of the theoretical chronobiology research group at the Free University of Brussels.
He developed mathematical models for various periodic biological systems (life cycle of the slime mold Dictyostelium , circadian rhythms, sleep-wake rhythms, metabolic oscillations, hormone secretion, enzyme regulation of phosphorylation and dephosphorylation reactions, cell division) and examined the transitions to chaos.
Fonts
- Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms, Cambridge University Press 1996
- La vie oscillatoire: Au coeur des rhythmes du vivant, Odile Jacob 2010
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| SURNAME | Goldbeter, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian theoretical biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |