Markus W. Covert (born April 24, 1973) is a researcher and professor of bioengineering at Stanford University who led the simulation of the first organism in software.[1][2][3] Covert leads an interdisciplinary lab of approximately 10 graduate students and post-doctoral scholars.[4]

Education

Covert received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University. He received a Ph.D. in bioengineering and bioinformatics from the University of California, San Diego in 2003 for his investigations into the interaction between microbial metabolism and transcriptional regulation under the supervision of Bernhard Palsson.[5] He did his post-doctoral training in mammalian cell signaling at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of David Baltimore.[6]

Honors and distinctions

  • NIH Director's Pioneer Award, 2009[7]
  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Brigham Young University, Ezra Taft Benson Presidential Scholarship, 1991-1997

References

  1. ↑ Karr, JR; Sanghvi, JC; Macklin, DN; Gutschow, MV; Jacobs, JM; Bolival, B; Assad-Garcia, N; Glass, JI; Covert, MW (2012). "A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype". Cell. 150 (2): 389–401. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.044. PMC 3413483. PMID 22817898.
  2. ↑ Freddolino, PL; Tavazoie, S (2012). "The Dawn of Virtual Cell Biology". Cell. 150 (2): 248–250. doi:10.1016/j.cell.2012.07.001. PMC 4430847. PMID 22817888.
  3. ↑ John Markoff. In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software. New York Times (July 20, 2012)
  4. ↑ Covert Lab at Stanford University
  5. ↑ Covert, MW; Knight, EM; Reed, JL; Herrgard, MJ; Palsson, BO (May 2004). "Integrating high-throughput and computational data elucidates bacterial networks". Nature. 429 (6987): 92–6. Bibcode:2004Natur.429...92C. doi:10.1038/nature02456. PMID 15129285. S2CID 4403433.
  6. ↑ Covert, MW; Leung, TH; Gaston, JE; Baltimore, D (2005). "Achieving stability of lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-kappaB activation". Science. 309 (5742): 1854–7. Bibcode:2005Sci...309.1854C. doi:10.1126/science.1112304. PMID 16166516. S2CID 83751012.
  7. ↑ 2009 Pioneer Award Recipients
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