Albert Goldbeter is a Belgian theoretical biologist who is professor emeritus in the Faculty of Sciences,
Université libre de Bruxelles
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(ULB), Belgium.
Biography
Goldbeter was born May 18, 1947, in
Uccle
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, Belgium. After completing his studies in chemistry, including a doctorate in the group of Prof.
Ilya Prigogine
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Prigogine's work most notably earned him the 19 ...
at the
Université libre de Bruxelles
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(ULB), Belgium, he was an
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postdoctoral fellow at the
Weizmann Institute
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Etymology
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,
Israel
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where he worked with Profs. Roy Caplan and Lee Segel (1973–1975) before returning to the ULB. He then spent another period (1979–1980) working with Prof.
Daniel Koshland at the
University of California (Berkeley). He was a professor at ULB until his retirement in 2012 and is currently an emeritus Professor at ULB. During his career he has held visiting Professorships at the University of California (Berkeley),
Paris VI and Paris XI (Université Paris-Sud, Orsay), and in China at
Fudan University
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in
Shanghai
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,
Nanjing Agricultural University
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, and Soochow University in
Suzhou
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.
Research
Goldbeter's research has focused primarily on modeling a variety of
biological
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oscillations
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at the cellular level.
He proposed experimentally based molecular models for the circadian clock in Drosophila and mammals, and for the mammalian cell cycle. In collaboration with Daniel Koshland he analyzed the phenomenon of zero-order ultrasensitivity in biochemical systems regulated through phosphorylation-dephosphorylation.
For his work on the mathematical modeling of biological processes, he was awarded the 2010 Quinquennial Prize for Exact Fundamental Sciences from the Belgian National Science Foundation (FNRS). He is a member (2001) and former Director (2009–2010) of the Classe des Sciences (Science Division) of the
Académie Royale de Belgique.
Books
*Goldbeter, A (1990). Rythmes et chaos dans les systèmes biochimiques et cellulaires” (Masson, Paris, 1990),. Paris: Masson.
*Goldbeter, A (1996). Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms. The Molecular Bases of Periodic and Chaotic Behavior. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
*Goldbeter, A. (2018). Au cœur des rythmes du vivant. La Vie oscillatoire. Paris: Odile Jacob.
References
External links
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Living people
Academic staff of the Université libre de Bruxelles
21st-century Belgian biologists
1947 births