Markus W. Covert

Markus W. Covert (born April 24, 1973) is a researcher and professor of bioengineering at Stanford University who led the simulation of the first organism in software.[1][2][3] Covert leads an interdisciplinary lab of approximately 10 graduate students and post-doctoral scholars.[4]

Education

Covert received a B.S. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University. He received a Ph.D. in bioengineering and bioinformatics from the University of California, San Diego in 2003 for his investigations into the interaction between microbial metabolism and transcriptional regulation under the supervision of Bernhard Palsson.[5] He did his post-doctoral training in mammalian cell signaling at the California Institute of Technology under the supervision of David Baltimore.[6]

Honors and distinctions
  • NIH Director's Pioneer Award, 2009[7]
  • Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship
  • Brigham Young University, Ezra Taft Benson Presidential Scholarship, 1991-1997

References
  1. Karr JR, Sanghvi JC, Macklin DN, Gutschow MV, Jacobs JM, Bolival B, Assad-Garcia N, Glass JI & Covert MW. A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype. Cell 150, 389-401 (2012)
  2. Freddolino PL & Tavazoie S. The Dawn of Virtual Cell Biology. Cell 150 2, 248-250 (2012).
  3. John Markoff. In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software. New York Times (July 20, 2012)
  4. Covert Lab at Stanford University
  5. Covert MW, Knight EM, Reed JL, Herrgard MJ, Palsson BO. Integrating high-throughput and computational data elucidates bacterial networks. Nature 429, 92-6 (2004).
  6. Covert MW, Leung TH, Gaston JE, Baltimore D. Achieving stability of lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-kappaB activation. Science 309, 1854-7 (2005).
  7. 2009 Pioneer Award Recipients
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