Eberhard Voit

Eberhard O. Voit (born 8 February 1953) is a Professor and David D. Flanagan Chair in Biological Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology[1] and a Georgia Research Alliance Eminent Scholar.[2] He leads the Laboratory for Biological Systems Analysis.

Eberhard O. Voit
Born (1953-02-08) February 8, 1953
NationalityGermany
USA
Alma materUniversity of Cologne
Known forBiochemical Systems Theory
Scientific career
InstitutionsGeorgia Institute of Technology
ThesisModelltheoretische Untersuchungen zur Anordnung der Knospennarben auf der Oberfläche von Hefezellen (1981)
Doctoral advisorH.-J. Pohley
Websitewww.bst.bme.gatech.edu

Biography

Eberhard Otto Voit was born on February 8, 1953 in Dortmund, Germany. He received the Diplom (Master's of Science) in Biology (Zoology, Genetics, Mathematics; 1976), Philosophikum in Philosophy and Education (1977), Staatsexamen (Master's of Science) in Mathematics (1978), and Dr. rer. nat. (Ph.D.) in Developmental and Theoretical Biology (1981) from the University of Cologne. From 1981 to 1982, he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under the mentorship of Professor Michael Savageau.

Voit held research and faculty positions at the University of Cologne, the University of Michigan, the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, and at the Cooperative Research Centre for Temperate Hardwood Forestry in Tasmania, Australia. In 2004, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory.[3]

Voit is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS),[4] the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE)[5] and the Society for Mathematical Biology (SMB).[6] He is furthermore an Overseas Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine of the United Kingdom. Voit also used to be part of the Men's Glee Club in University of Michigan.

Work

Voit is recognized as a leading expert in complex biomedical systems modeling and, in particular, the scientific modeling and systems analysis framework of Biochemical Systems Theory (BST)[7][8][9] Voit's team has been developing numerous methodologies within BST and using these, along with other modeling techniques, to analyze biomedical phenomena from microbial dynamics[10] and bacterial metapopulations[11] to diseases like schizophrenia[12] and malaria.[13] He has also worked in the areas of computational statistics[14][15] and metabolic engineering.[16][17]

Voit has documented these advancements in about 300 scientific journal articles and book chapters. He is also the author of several books, some with translations into Chinese and Korean,[18] an introductory text for undergraduate and graduate students, and The Inner Workings of Life: Vignettes in Systems Biology[19] a non-technical introduction to systems biology for educated non-experts.

Selected publications
  • Voit, E.O. (Ed): ‘’Canonical Nonlinear Modeling. S-System Approach to Understanding Complexity‘’, xi+365 pp., Van Nostrand Reinhold, NY, 1991.
  • Voit, E.O., and T. Radivoyevitch: Biochemical systems analysis of genome-wide expression data, ‘’Bioinformatics ‘’ ‘’’16(11) ‘’’, 1023-1037, 2000.
  • Voit, E.O., and J.S. Almeida: Decoupling dynamical systems for pathway identification from metabolic profiles. ‘’Bioinformatics‘’ ‘’’20(11) ‘’’,1670-1681, 2004.
  • Alvarez-Vasquez, F., K. J. Sims, L.A. Cowart, Y. Okamoto, E. O. Voit, and Y. A. Hannun. Simulation and evaluation of de novo sphingolipid fluxes in S. cerevisiae. ‘’Nature ‘’ ‘’’433(7024) ‘’’, 425-430 (2005).
  • Voit, E.O., A.R. Neves, and H. Santos. The intricate side of systems biology. ‘’Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. ‘’, ‘’’103(25) ‘’’, 9452-9457, 2006.
  • Goel, G., I-C. Chou, and E.O. Voit: System estimation from metabolic time series data. ‘’Bioinformatics ‘’ ‘’’24 ‘’’, 2505-2511, 2008.
  • Voit, E.O., W.C. Newstetter, and M.L. Kemp: A feel for systems, ‘’Mol. Syst. Biol. ‘’ ‘’’8 ‘’’, 609, 2012.
  • Voit, E.O., H.A. Martens, and S.W. Omholt: 150 years of the mass action law. ‘’PLoS Comp. Biol. ‘’ ‘’’11(1) ‘’’: e1004012, 2015.
  • Faraji, M. and E.O. Voit: Nonparametric dynamic modeling. ‘’Math. Biosc. ‘’ ‘’’287 ‘’’, 130-146, 2017.
  • Voit, E.O.: The best models of metabolism. ‘’WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine‘’ 2017, e1391.
  • Voit, E.O.: ‘’Systems Biology: A Very Short Introduction‘’, Oxford University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2019.
  • Voit, E.O., Perspective: Dimensions of the scientific method.‘’PLoS Comp. Biol. ‘’ ‘’’15(9) ‘’’: e1007279, 2019.

Books
  • Voit, E.O.: Computational Analysis of Biochemical Systems. A Practical Guide for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists, xii + 530 pp., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000.
  • Torres, N.V., and E.O. Voit: Pathway Analysis and Optimization in Metabolic Engineering. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2002.
  • Voit, E.O.: A First Course in Systems Biology. Garland Science, New York, NY, 2012, xiv+445pp.
  • Voit, E.O.: The Inner Workings of Life. Vignettes in Systems Biology, xii + 210 pp., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2016.

References
  1. "Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech and Emory University". bme.gatech.edu. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  2. "Georgia Research Alliance". gra.org. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  3. "Eberhard Voit". www.journals.elsevier.com. Computational Biology and Chemistry. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  4. "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  5. "Eberhard Voit, Ph.D. COF-1480 - AIMBE". aimbe.org. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  6. "2018 SMB Awards for Established Scientists". www.smb.org. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
  7. Savageau, M.A. and E.O. Voit: Recasting nonlinear differential equations as S-systems: A canonical nonlinear form. ‘’Mathem. Biosci. ‘’ ‘’’87 ‘’’, 83-115, 1987.
  8. Voit, E.O.: ‘’Computational Analysis of Biochemical Systems. A Practical Guide for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists‘’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2000.
  9. Voit, E.O.: Biochemical Systems Theory: A review. ‘’Int. Scholarly Res. Network (ISRN – Biomathematics) ‘’, Article 897658, pp. 1-53, 2013.
  10. Dolatshahi, S., L.L. Fonseca, and E.O. Voit: New insights into the complex regulation of the glycolytic pathway in ‘’Lactococcus lactis‘’. ‘’Molecular Biosystems‘’ ‘’’12(1) ‘’’, 23-47, 2016.
  11. Dam, P., L.L. Fonseca, K.T. Konstantinidis, and E.O. Voit: Dynamic models of the complex microbial metapopulation of Lake Mendota. ‘’Nature PJ Sys. Biol. Appl. ‘’, ‘’’2 ‘’’, 16007, 2016.
  12. Qi, Z., G. Yu. F. Tretter. O. Pogarell, A.A. Grace and E.O. Voit: A Heuristic Model for Working Memory Deficit in Schizophrenia. ‘’Bioch. Biophys. Acta - Systems Genetics‘’ ‘’’1860 ‘’’, 2696-2705, 2016.
  13. Fonseca, L.L., H.A. Alezi, A. Moreno, J.W. Barnwell, M.R. Galinski, and E.O. Voit: Quantifying the removal of red blood cells in ‘’Macaca mulatta‘’ during a ‘’Plasmodium coatneyi‘’ infection. ‘’Malaria J. ‘’ ‘’’15 ‘’’, 410, 2016.
  14. Rust, P.F. and E.O. Voit: Statistical densities, cumulatives, quantiles, and power obtained by S-system differential equations. ‘’ J. Americ. Stat. Assoc. (JASA)‘’ ‘’’85 (410) ‘’’, 572-578, 1990.
  15. Voit, E.O.: The S-distribution. A tool for approximation and classification of univariate, unimodal probability distributions. ‘’Biometrical J. ‘’ ‘’’34 (7) ‘’’, 855-878, 1992.
  16. Voit, E.O.: Optimization in integrated biochemical systems. ‘’Biotechn. Bioengin. ‘’ ‘’’40 ‘’’, 572-582, 1992.
  17. Torres, N.V., and E.O. Voit: ‘’Pathway Analysis and Optimization in Metabolic Engineering‘’. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2002.
  18. Voit, E.O.: ‘’A First Course in Systems Biology‘’. Garland Science, New York, NY, 2012; second edition 2016., including A First Course in Systems Biology
  19. Voit, E.O.: ‘’The Inner Workings of Life. Vignettes in Systems Biology‘’, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K., 2016.
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