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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 2015 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2007 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Michael B. Elowitz is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a particular focus on Molecular Biology, Biophysics, Cell Biology, Genetics, and Immunology as subfields.

Their work spans several main research topics, including:

  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • RNA Interference and Gene Delivery

Michael B. Elowitz has published extensively, with frequent appearances in several scientific venues. Top publication venues include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Cell Systems
  • Cell
  • Science
  • Nature

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Elowitz include:

  • "Embryo model completes gastrulation to neurulation and organogenesis," 2022, Nature
  • "The sound of silence: Transgene silencing in mammalian cell engineering," 2022, Cell Systems
  • "Imaging cell lineage with a synthetic digital recording system," 2021, Science
  • "Programmable protein circuit design," 2021, Cell
  • "Synthetic multistability in mammalian cells," 2022, Science

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • James M. Linton
  • Mark W. Budde
  • Ronghui Zhu
  • Christina J. Su
  • Ke-Huan K. Chow

Michael B. Elowitz has been recognized as a fellow by multiple organizations:

  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2016
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2015
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 2007

Best Publications

  • Stochastic Gene Expression in a Single Cell

    Michael B. Elowitz;Arnold J. Levine;Eric D. Siggia;Peter S. Swain

  • A synthetic oscillatory network of transcriptional regulators

    Michael B. Elowitz;Stanislas Leibler

  • Intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to stochasticity in gene expression

    Peter S. Swain;Michael B. Elowitz;Eric D. Siggia

  • Functional roles for noise in genetic circuits

    Avigdor Eldar;Michael B. Elowitz

  • Gene Regulation at the Single-Cell Level

    Nitzan Rosenfeld;Jonathan W. Young;Uri Alon;Peter S. Swain

  • Dynamics of the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop in individual cells

    Galit Lahav;Nitzan Rosenfeld;Alex Sigal;Naama Geva-Zatorsky

  • Negative autoregulation speeds the response times of transcription networks.

    Nitzan Rosenfeld;Michael B Elowitz;Uri Alon

  • An excitable gene regulatory circuit induces transient cellular differentiation.

    Gürol M. Süel;Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo;Louisa M. Liberman;Michael B. Elowitz

  • Protein mobility in the cytoplasm of Escherichia coli

    Michael B. Elowitz;Michael G. Surette;Pierre Etienne Wolf;Jeffry Benton Stock

  • Combinatorial Synthesis of Genetic Networks

    Călin C. Guet;Călin C. Guet;Michael B. Elowitz;Weihong Hsing;Stanislas Leibler;Stanislas Leibler;Stanislas Leibler

  • Cis-interactions between Notch and Delta generate mutually exclusive signalling states

    David Sprinzak;Amit Lakhanpal;Lauren LeBon;Leah A. Santat

  • Modeling a synthetic multicellular clock: Repressilators coupled by quorum sensing

    Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo;Michael B. Elowitz;Steven H. Strogatz

  • Frequency-modulated nuclear localization bursts coordinate gene regulation

    Long Cai;Chiraj K. Dalal;Michael B. Elowitz

  • Tunability and Noise Dependence in Differentiation Dynamics

    Gürol M. Süel;Rajan P. Kulkarni;Jonathan Dworkin;Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo

  • Reconstruction of genetic circuits.

    David Sprinzak;Michael B. Elowitz

  • Programming gene expression with combinatorial promoters

    Robert Sidney Cox;Michael G Surette;Michael B Elowitz

  • Dynamics of epigenetic regulation at the single-cell level

    Lacramioara Bintu;John Yong;Yaron E. Antebi;Kayla McCue

  • Functional Roles of Pulsing in Genetic Circuits

    Joe H. Levine;Yihan Lin;Michael B. Elowitz

  • Measuring single-cell gene expression dynamics in bacteria using fluorescence time-lapse microscopy

    Jonathan W Young;James C W Locke;Alphan Altinok;Nitzan Rosenfeld

  • Synthetic recording and in situ readout of lineage information in single cells

    Kirsten L. Frieda;James M. Linton;Sahand Hormoz;Joonhyuk Choi

Frequent Co-Authors

Stanislas Leibler
Stanislas Leibler Rockefeller University
Ellen V. Rothenberg
Ellen V. Rothenberg California Institute of Technology
Uri Alon
Uri Alon Weizmann Institute of Science
Arnold J. Levine
Arnold J. Levine Institute for Advanced Study
Stuart H. Orkin
Stuart H. Orkin Harvard University
Junhyong Kim
Junhyong Kim University of Pennsylvania
Michael Overholtzer
Michael Overholtzer Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Michael G. Surette
Michael G. Surette McMaster University
Peter V. Kharchenko
Peter V. Kharchenko Harvard University
John Quackenbush
John Quackenbush Harvard University

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