William Bialek, Lewis-Sigler Institute member and John Archibald Wheeler/Battelle Professor in Physics, has been elected to membership in The National Academy of Sciences, along with 83 others, including several from Princeton.
The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics
The Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, housed in the Carl Icahn Laboratory at Princeton University, was established to innovate in research and teaching at the interface of modern biology and the more quantitative sciences. The Institute is the hub of the Center for Quantitative Biology, funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
News
Research carried out in the laboratory of Lewis-Sigler Fellow Ethan Perlstein has shown a self-degradation response to the antidepressant Zoloft in yeast cells that could help provide new answers to lingering questions among scientists about how antidepressants work.
3/5/2012 - Using a new $14 million grant from DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a team of biologists and mathematicians that includes Institute members David Botstein and Ned Wingreen will look closely at the timepieces that drive life.
"Biological systems have amazing timing capabilities," says Duke mathematician John Harer, the lead investigator on the new grant.
"Biological systems have amazing timing capabilities," says Duke mathematician John Harer, the lead investigator on the new grant.
2/29/12 - Institute Director David Botstein is a recipient of a 2012 Dan David prize. Prizes of one million dollars are annually awarded for achievements having an outstanding scientific, technological, cultural or social impact on our world. Dr. Botstein shares his prize with Eric Lander (Broad Institute) and J. Craig Venter (J. Craig Venter Institute).
2/22/2012 - Princeton senior James Valcourt has been named co-winner, with Ann-Marie Elvin, of the University's 2012 Moses Taylor Pyne Honor Prize, the highest general distinction conferred on an undergraduate.
Integrated Science Shorts
- May 22, 2012, 4:30 p.m.Carl Icahn Lab 101
