Adam Arkin Professor, Department of Bioengineering Faculty Scientist, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Director, The Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 309B Hildebrand mailcode: 3220 (510) 643-5678 fax: (510) 643-3721 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it http://genomics.lbl.gov

Joined the UC Berkeley Faculty in 1999

Research Interests

The Arkin laboratory seeks to uncover the evolutionary design principles of cellular networks and populations and to exploit them for applications. To do so they are developing a framework to effectively combine comparative functional genomics, quantitative measurement of cellular dynamics, biophysical modeling of cellular networks, and cellular circuit design to ultimately facilitate applications in health, the environment, and bioenergy.

Education

1992    Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Physical Chemistry
1988    B.A., Carleton College, Chemistry

Major Awards

2007                 American Academy of Microbiology Fellow
2007                 Mohammed Dahleh Award, University of California, Santa Barbara
2006                 Britton Chance Distinguished Lecturer in Engineering & Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
2000-2007         Assistant Investigator, HHMI
2000                 Time Magazine Future Innovator
1999                 TechReview 100 most innovative Young Scientists

Professional Experience

2005-present    Associate Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
2002-present    Director, The Virtual Institute of Microbial Stress and Survival
2000-2007    Assistant Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Insitute
1999-2005    Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Berkeley
1998-present    Faculty Scientist, Computational and Theoretical Biology and Synthetic Biology Departments, Physical Biosciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Selected Publications

Samoilov, M.S. and Arkin, A.P. (2006) Deviant effects in molecular reaction pathways. Nat Biotechnol, 24, 1235-1240.
Arkin, A.P. and Fletcher, D.A. (2006) Fast, cheap and somewhat in control. Genome Biol, 7, 114.
Anderson, J.C., Clarke, E.J., Arkin, A.P. and Voigt, C.A. (2006) Environmentally Controlled Invasion of Cancer Cells by Engineered Bacteria. J Mol Biol, 355, 619-627.
Alm, E., Huang, K. and Arkin, A. (2006) The Evolution of Two-Component Systems in Bacteria Reveals Different Strategies for Niche Adaptation. PLoS Comput Biol, 2.
Wolf, D.M., Vazirani, V.V. and Arkin, A.P. (2005) Diversity in times of adversity: probabilistic strategies in microbial survival games. J Theor Biol, 234, 227-253.
Weinberger, L.S., Burnett, J.C., Toettcher, J.E., Arkin, A.P. and Schaffer, D.V. (2005) Stochastic Gene Expression in a Lentiviral Positive-Feedback Loop: HIV-1 Tat Fluctuations Drive Phenotypic Diversity. Cell, 122, 169-182.
Voigt, C.A., Wolf, D.M. and Arkin, A.P. (2005) The Bacillus subtilis sin Operon: An Evolvable Network Motif. Genetics, 169, 1187-1202.
Wolf, D.M. and Arkin, A.P. (2003) Motifs, modules and games in bacteria. Curr Opin Microbiol, 6, 125-134.