Joshua Weitz

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

He earned his A.B at Princeton University in 1997 and his Ph.D. in physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003.[5]

Research

Weitz'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

Weitz 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
  1. 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.
  2. "Joshua Weitz". gatech.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  3. "Director Joshua Weitz welcomes the inaugural class to the QBioS Ph.D. at Georgia Tech". August 31, 2016. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  4. "Joshua Weitz Elected AAAS Fellow". gatech.edu. November 21, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2018.
  5. "Joshua Weitz". gatech.edu. Retrieved December 22, 2017.
  6. Weitz, Joshua (January 5, 2016). Quantitative Viral Ecology: Dynamics of Viruses and Their Microbial Hosts. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691161549.
  7. "Book Awards Winners 2016". Royal Society of Biology. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Between Two Stones: Poems. Sheep Meadow. November 1, 2002. ISBN 1931357021.
  15. 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.
  16. Hagen, Lisa (April 24, 2017). "Thousands, Armed With Puns, March For Science In Atlanta". WABE. Retrieved 10 September 2018.
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