Michael Savageau
Michael Antonio Savageau (born December 3, 1940 in Fargo , North Dakota ) is an American biologist who deals with systems biology .
Savageau graduated from the University of Minnesota ( bachelor's degree in 1962) and the University of Iowa ( master's degree in 1963), and received her PhD in cell physiology and systems science from Stanford University in 1967 . As a post-doctoral student he was at Stanford and the University of California, Los Angeles . In 1969 he became a Lecturer at Stanford and in 1970 Assistant Professor and later Professor at the University of Michigan . In 1976/77 he was a Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen. From 1992 to 2002 he chaired the microbiology and immunology faculty at the University of Michigan. From 2003 he was a professor at the University of California, Davis . From 2005 to 2007 he was head of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering.
He deals with biological and biochemical networks (e.g. gene control networks) and non-linear systems analysis in biology. In 2006 he was Gibbs Lecturer . He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences . He received the IHES Prize and is an honorary doctorate from the University of Lleida in Spain.
For ten years (until 2005) he was editor of Mathematical Biosciences .
Fonts
- Biochemical Systems Analysis: A Study of Function and Design in Molecular Biology, Addison-Wesley 1976
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life and career data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Savageau, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Savageau, Michael Antonio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American systems biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 3, 1940 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fargo , North Dakota |