Scott F. Gilbert
Scott Frederick Gilbert (born 1949) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist and historian of biology.
Scott Gilbert is the Howard A. Schneiderman Professor of Biology (emeritus) at Swarthmore College and a Finland Distinguished Professor (emeritus) at the University of Helsinki.
Education
He obtained his B.A. in both biology and religion from Wesleyan University (1971). In 1976, he received his MA (history of science, under the aegis of Donna Haraway) and his PhD (biology, in the laboratory of Barbara Migeon) from the Johns Hopkins University.[1] His postdoctoral work at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, pursued research on ribosome synthesis in the laboratory of Masayasu Nomura (1976–1978) and investigated developmental immunology in the laboratory of Robert Auerbach (1978–1980).[2]
Academic career
Gilbert is the author of the textbook Developmental Biology (first edition, 1985, and now in its 13th edition, 2023) and has also co-authored (with David Epel) the textbook Ecological Developmental Biology (2009, 2015). He has been credited with helping initiate evolutionary developmental biology and ecological developmental biology as new biological disciplines.[3][4][5][6]
Gilbert's early biological research includes documenting the first
Gilbert's research in the history and philosophy of biology concerns the interactions of
Personal life
Scott F. Gilbert is the son of Marvin (Bud) and Elaine Caplan Gilbert. He was raised in East Rockaway, New York, .[30] He is married to Anne Raunio (m.1971), and has three children and two grandchildren. In 2015, Gilbert became emeritus professor at both Swarthmore College and the University of Helsinki, and in 2016 he moved with Anne to Portland, Oregon, where he is on the Asian Arts Council of the Portland Art Museum.
Honors
Honorary doctorates
University of Helsinki (Finland, 2000), University of Tartu, (Estonia, 2011)
Awards and honors
Phi Beta Kappa (1970); Sigma Xi (1980); Medal of François I (Collège de France, 1996); Fellow, AAAS (1998); John Simon Guggenheim Fellow (1999); Honorary member, St. Petersburg Society of Naturalists, St. Petersburg, Russia (2001); Viktor Hamburger Outstanding Educator Prize (Society for Developmental Biology, 2002); Alexander Kowalevsky Medal (2004); Biosemiotics Achievement Award (2015); Lecture in developmental biology presented to the 14th Dalai Lama (2016)[31]
Selected publications
For full publications list, see Swarthmore College Works.
Articles
A select number of his works are freely available online.
Books
- Gilbert, Scott F. (1st ed. 1985; 12th ed. 2019). Developmental Biology. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer Associates. ISBN 0878932461.
- Gilbert, Scott F., ed. (1991). Conceptual History of Modern Embryology. New York, NY: ISBN 0306438429.
- Gilbert, Scott F.; Raunio, Anne M., eds. (1997). Embryology: Constructing The Organism. Sunderland, MA: ISBN 0878932372.
- Gilbert, Scott F., Tyler, Anna L., & Zackin, Emily J. (2005). Bioethics and the New Embryology: Springboards for Debate. Sunderland, MA: ISBN 0716773457.)
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- Gilbert, Scott F. & Epel, David (2015). Ecological Developmental Biology: The Environmental Regulation of Development, Health, and Evolution. Sunderland, MA: ISBN 9781605353449.
- Gilbert, S. F. and Pinto-Correia, C. (2017). Fear, Wonder, and Science in the New Age of Reproductive Biotechnology. Columbia University Press, NY. ISBN 9780231544580
External Links
- Interview at the Node at The Company of Biologists.
- What Science Says About When Life Begins with Robin Young at WBUR-FM Here and Now.
- Evolution and the Human & Social. Sciences: New Perspectives at the Zoological Museum at University of Zurich.
- Holobiont by Birth: Childbirth as Maintenance of Community at Aarhus University.
References
- ^ Gilbert S. F. 2009. Bio. Evolution and Development 11: 331 – 332.
- ^ Gilbert S. F. 2009. Bio. Evolution and Development 11: 331 – 332.
- ^ Mikhailov, A. T. and Gilbert S. F. 2005. Putting evo-devo into focus: An interview with Scott F. Gilbert. International Journal of Developmental Biology 48: 9 – 16.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 2001. Ecological developmental biology: Developmental biology meets the real world. Developmental Biology 233: 1 - 12.
- ^ Duschek, J. It's the ecology, stupid. Nature 418: 578 - 579.
- ^ Wake, M., Development in the real world. Reviewed Work: Ecological Developmental Biology: Integrating Epigenetics, Medicine, and Evolution by Scott F. Gilbert, David Epel. Amer. Sci. 98(1): 75-78.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F., Boer, H. A. de, and Nomura, M. 1979. Identification of initiation sites for the in vitro transcription of rRNA operons rrnE and rrnA in Escherichia coli. Cell 17: 211-224.
- ^ Icenogle, J., Shiwen, H., Duke, G., Gilbert, S. F., Rueckert, R., and Anderegg, J. 1983. Neutralization of poliovirus by a monoclonal antibody: Kinetics and stoichiometry. Virology 127: 412 - 425.
- ^ Cebra-Thomas, J. A., Bromer, J., Gardner, R., Lam, G. K., Scheipe, H., and Gilbert, S. F. 2003. T-box gene products are required for mesenchymal induction of epithelial branching in the embryonic mouse lung. Developmental Dynamics226: 82 - 90.
- ^ Ritvos, O., Tuuri, T., Erämaa, M., Sainio, K., Hilden, K., Saxén, L., and Gilbert, S. F. 1995. Activin disrupts epithelial branching morphogenesis in developing murine kidney, pancreas, and salivary gland. Mechanisms of Development 50: 229 - 245.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F., Opitz, J., and Raff, R. A. 1996. Resynthesizing evolutionary and developmental biology. Developmental Biology 173: 357 - 372.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F., Cebra-Thomas, J. A., and Burke, A. C. (2007). How the turtle gets its shell. In Biology of Turtles (J. Wyneken, M. H. Gofrey, and V. Bels, eds.). CRC Press, Boca Raton. Pp. 1- 16.
- ^ Cebra-Thomas, J. A., Betters, E., Yin, M., Plafkin, C., McDow, K., and Gilbert, S. F. 2007. A late-emerging population of trunk neural crest cells forms the plastron in the turtle Trachemys scripta. Evolution and Development 9: 267 – 277.
- ^ Gilbert, S.F., Sapp. J., and Tauber, A. I. 2012. A symbiotic view of life: We have never been individuals. Quarterly Review of Biology 87: 325 – 341.
- ^ Gilbert, Scott F; Bosch, Thomas C. G; Ledón-Rettig, Cristina. (2015). "Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents". Nature Reviews Genetics 16: 611–622.
- ^ Roughgarden, J., Gilbert, S. F., Rosenberg, E., Zilber-Rosenberg, I, and Lloyd, E. A. 2017. Holobionts as units of selection and a model of their population dynamics and evolution. Biological Theory 13: 44-65.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 1978. The embryological origins of the gene theory. J. Hist. Biol. 11: 307-351.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 1988. Cellular Politics: Just, Goldschmidt, and the attempts to reconcile embryology and genetics, In The American Development of Biology (ed. R. Rainger, K. Benson, J. Maienschein) University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia. pp. 311-346.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 1982. Intellectual traditions in the life sciences: Molecular biology and biochemistry. Perspec. Biol. Med. 26: 151-162.
- ^ Beldecos, A., Bailly, S., Gilbert, S., Hicks, K., Kenschaft, L., Niemczyk, N., Rosenberg, R., Schaertel, S., and Wedel, A. 1988. The importance of feminist critique for contemporary cell biology. Hypatia 3: 61-76.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. and Howes-Mischel 2004. "Show Me Your Original Face before You Were Born": The Convergence of Public Fetuses and Sacred DNA. History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 26: 377 – 394.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 2001. Ecological developmental biology: Developmental biology meets the real world. Developmental Biology 233: 1 - 12.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 2012. Ecological developmental biology: Environmental signals for normal animal development. Evolution and Development 14: 20 – 28.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 2002. Genetic determinism: The battle between scientific data and social image in contemporary developmental biology. In On Human Nature. Anthropological, Biological, and Philosophical Foundations. (Grunwald, A., Gutmann, M., and Neumann-Held, E. M., eds.) Springer-Verlag, NY. Pp. 121 - 140.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 2013. Wonder and the necessary alliances of science and religion. Euresis Journal 4: 7-30.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 2008. When "personhood" begins in the embryo: avoiding a syllabus of errors. Birth Defects Res C Embryo Today 84: 164 - 173.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. and Zevit, Z. 2001. Congenital human baculum deficiency: The generative bone of Genesis 2: 21-23. American Journal of Medical Genetics 101: 284 - 285.
- ^ Gilbert. S. F. and Braukmann, S. 2011. Fertilization narratives in the art of Gustav Klimt, Diego Rivera, and Frida Kahlo: Repression, Domination, and Eros among cells. Leonardo 44: 221 – 227.
- ^ Gilbert, S. F. 1985. Bacchus in the laboratory: In defense of scientific puns. Perspec. Biol. Med. 29: 148-152.
- ^ Gilbert S. F. 2009. Bio. Evolution and Development 11: 331 – 332.
- ^ Session 4- Bridging Buddhism and Science. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPdHJkPLcM
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