Joshua S. Weitz is an American biologist. He is both a professor of biology and the Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics at the University of Maryland.[1] Previously, he was a professor at Georgia Tech,[2] where he was the founding director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Quantitative Biosciences.[3] In 2017, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[4]
Education
editHe earned his A.B at Princeton University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003.[5]
Research
editWeitz's interests are the dynamics and structure of complex biology systems.[5] In particular, Joshua Weitz's research focuses on the quantitative evaluation of virus-host interactions. The quantitative edge that he brought to the field is summarized in the award winning book Quantitative Viral Ecology,[6] which won the 2016 Postgraduate Textbook Prize awarded by the Royal Society of Biology.[7]
While in graduate school, he co-authored a widely cited paper, Re-examination of the “3/4-law” of Metabolism, published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology.[8] As a post-doctoral scholar, he published Coevolutionary arms races between bacteria and bacteriophage in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.[9] His notable more recent publications include Statistical structure of host–phage interactions, PNAS (2011),[10] Ocean viruses and their effects on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles, F1000 Bio. Rep. (2012),[11] Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space, Nature (2014),[12] and An oscillating tragedy of the commons in replicator dynamics with game-environment feedback, PNAS (2016).[13]
Other Activities
editWeitz has published poetry, including a book of poems he wrote in college, Between Two Stones.[14] He has also been politically active, writing in the Chronicle for Higher Education about advocating for science,[15] and speaking at the Atlanta March for Science.[16]
References
edit- ^ Miller, Leslie (5 July 2023). "Joshua Weitz Joins Biology as Professor and Clark Leadership Chair in Data Analytics". News. University of Maryland. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ "Joshua Weitz". gatech.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
- ^ "Director Joshua Weitz welcomes the inaugural class to the QBioS Ph.D. at Georgia Tech". August 31, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ "Joshua Weitz Elected AAAS Fellow". gatech.edu. November 21, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
- ^ a b "Joshua Weitz". gatech.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
- ^ Weitz, Joshua (January 5, 2016). Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691161549.
- ^ "Book Awards Winners 2016". Royal Society of Biology. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ P.S. Dodds; D.H. Rothman; J.S. Weitz (7 March 2001). "Re-examination of the "3/4-law" of Metabolism". Journal of Theoretical Biology. 209 (1): 9–27. arXiv:physics/0007096. Bibcode:2001JThBi.209....9D. doi:10.1006/jtbi.2000.2238. PMID 11237567. S2CID 9168199.
- ^ J. S. Weitz; H. Hartman; S.A. Levin (July 5, 2005). "Coevolutionary arms races between bacteria and bacteriophage". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (27): 9535–9540. Bibcode:2005PNAS..102.9535W. doi:10.1073/pnas.0504062102. PMC 1172273. PMID 15976021.
- ^ Cesar O. Flores; Justin R. Meyer; Sergi Valverde; Lauren Farr; Joshua S. Weitz (July 12, 2011). "Statistical structure of host–phage interaction". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 108 (28): E288–E297. doi:10.1073/pnas.1101595108. PMC 3136311. PMID 21709225.
- ^ Joshua S. Weitz; Steven W. Wilhelm (September 5, 2012). "Ocean viruses and their effects on microbial communities and biogeochemical cycles". F1000 Biol. Rep. 4 (17): 17. doi:10.3410/B4-17. PMC 3434959. PMID 22991582.
- ^ Li Deng; et al. (11 September 2014). "Viral tagging reveals discrete populations in Synechococcus viral genome sequence space". Nature. 513 (7517): 242–245. Bibcode:2014Natur.513..242D. doi:10.1038/nature13459. PMID 25043051. S2CID 4463116.
- ^ Joshua S. Weitz; Ceyhun Eksin; Keith Paarporn; Sam P. Brown; William C. Ratcliff (November 22, 2016). "An oscillating tragedy of the commons in replicator dynamics with game-environment feedback". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113 (47): E7518–E7525. Bibcode:2016PNAS..113E7518W. doi:10.1073/pnas.1604096113. PMC 5127343. PMID 27830651.
- ^ Between Two Stones: Poems. Sheep Meadow. November 1, 2002. ISBN 1931357021.
- ^ Weitz, Joshua (March 5, 2017). "Should Scientists Compromise? First, Define Your Terms". The Chronicle for Higher Education. No. March 10, 2017. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
- ^ Hagen, Lisa (April 24, 2017). "Thousands, Armed With Puns, March For Science In Atlanta". WABE. Retrieved 10 September 2018.