Stuart 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 and work

Newman received 1965 A. B. Columbia University in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Chemical Physisk at the University of Chicago. He was a postdoctoral fellow in 1970-71 at the Department of Theoretical Biology at the University of Chicago and 1970-72 at the School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, UK. After that, he was a visiting professor 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, Australia also. He is a member of the external faculty of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Austria, and of the editorial board of the Journal of Biosciences ( Bangalore ). He was a founding member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, Cambridge, MA and is a Fellow of the Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future, Chicago, IL. He is also Director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism, Nixon, NV, United States.

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 includes a mechanism for pattern formation in the vertebrate limb skeleton based on self-organization of the embryonic tissue. He has also described a biophysical effect in extracellular matrices that are populated with cells or non-living particles, a matrix -driven translocation, which allows a physical model for the morphogenesis of stem cell tissue.

Together with the evolutionary theorist Gerd B. Müller (theoretical biologist ) gave Newman 2003, the book Origination of Organismal of shape. This book on Evolutionary developmental biology includes contributions from various researchers generative mechanisms that are involved in the development of body Ediacaran and Cambrian in the forums. Special attention is given to epigenetic factors, physical determinants and environmental parameters that have led to spontaneous emergence of body plans and organic form in a period when multicellular organisms had relatively plastic morphology. Natural selection that acts on different genotypes, according to this theory, the body plans has fixed. Newman speaks in this context of Dynamic Patterning Modules ( DPM 's).

Newman, together with the physicist Gabor Forgacs co-author of the book Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo ( 2005).