Stuart A. Newman
Stuart A. Newman is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York
Medical College in Valhalla, NY, USA. He received an A.B. from Columbia
University and a Ph.D. in chemical physics from the University of Chicago.
He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theoretical Biology,
University of Chicago and in the School of Biological Sciences, University
of Sussex, UK, an instructor in anatomy at the University of Pennsylvania
and an assistant professor of biological sciences at the State University
of New York at Albany. He has been a visiting professor at the Pasteur
Institute, Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique-Saclay, the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, the University of
Tokyo, Komaba, and was a Fogarty Senior International Fellow at Monash
University, Australia. He is a member of the External Faculty of the Konrad
Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, Altenberg, Austria.
Newman's work in developmental biology includes a proposed mechanism for patterning of the vertebrate limb skeleton based on the self-organization of embryonic tissues. His work in evolutionary biology includes a theory for the origination of the animal phyla. This is suggested to have been driven by new physical morphogenetic and patterning effects set into motion when the products of the ancient developmental toolkit genes first came to operate on the multicellular scale in the late Precambrian-early Cambrian.
He is co-author, with the physicist Gabor Forgacs, of the textbook Biological Physics of the Developing Embryo (Cambridge University Press, 2005), co-editor with the evolutionary biologist Gerd B. Müller, of the book Origination of Organismal Form (MIT Press, 2003) and with the mathematical and computational biologists
Santiago Schnell, Philip Maini and Timothy Newman of Multiscale Modeling of Developmental Systems (Current Topics in Developmental Biology Vol. 81; Elsevier, 2007), and is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Biosciences (Bangalore) and Biological Theory (Altenberg).
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