Stuart A. Newman
Stuart Alan Newman (born April 4, 1945 in New York City ) is an American biologist . He is Professor of Cell Biology at New York Medical College in Valhalla , New York .
Life
Newman received an AB from Columbia University in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Chicago . 1970–71 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Theoretical Biology at the University of Chicago and 1970–72 at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex , Great Britain . He then held a visiting professorship at the Pasteur Institute , Paris , at the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique - Saclay , the Indian Institute of Science , Bangalore , the University of Tokyo, Komaba , and was Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash University , also Australia . He is a member of the external faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognitive Research , Austria , and of the Editorial board of the Journal of Biosciences (Bangalore). He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics in Cambridge and is a Fellow of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future in Chicago. He is also the director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism in Nixon , Nevada .
His research focuses on three programs: cellular and molecular mechanisms of limb development in vertebrates , physical mechanisms of morphogenesis, and mechanisms of morphological evolution . He also wrote on social and cultural aspects of biological research and technology.
Newman's work in developmental biology involves a mechanism for vertebrate limb skeleton patterning based on the self-organization of embryonic tissue. He has also described a biophysical effect in extracellular matrices populated with cells or non-living particles, a matrix-controlled translocation that enables a physical model for the morphogenesis of stem cell tissue.
Together with the evolution theorist Gerd B. Müller , Newman published the book Origination of Organizational Form in 2003. This book on evolutionary developmental biology contains contributions from various researchers on generative mechanisms involved in the formation of body shapes in the Ediacarian and Cambrian . Particular attention is paid to epigenetic factors, physical determinants, and environmental parameters that have led to the spontaneous emergence of body blueprints and organic form in a period when multicellular organisms had relatively plastic morphology. According to this theory, natural selection that acts on different genotypes has fixed the body plans. In this context, Newman speaks of Dynamic Patterning Modules (DPMs) .
Newman is co-author of the book Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (2005) with the physicist Gabor Forgacs .
See also
Web links
- New York Medical College: Stuart A. Newman, Ph.D.
- Lecture on Human Genetic
- Interview Susan Mazur with Newman about DPMs
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Newman, Stuart A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Newman, Stuart Alan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American biologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |