{{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Markus W. Covert | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = <!--(filename only, i.e. without "File:" prefix)--> | image_size = | image_upright = | landscape = <!-- yes, if wide image, otherwise leave blank --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = <!-- if different from "name" --> | birth_date = {{birth date |1973|04|24}} | birth_place = | death_date = <!--{{death date and age |YYYY|MM|DD |YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date)--> | death_place = | death_cause = <!-- should only be included when the cause of death has significance for the subject's notability --> | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = <!--{{coord|LAT|LONG|type:landmark|display=inline,title}}--> | other_names = | siglum = | pronounce = | citizenship = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] --> | nationality = <!-- use only when necessary per [[WP:INFONAT]] --> | fields = [[Cellular model]] | workplaces = [[Stanford University]] | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = [[Brigham Young University]], [[University of California, San Diego]] | thesis_title = <!--(or | thesis1_title = and | thesis2_title = )--> | thesis_url = <!--(or | thesis1_url = and | thesis2_url = )--> | thesis_year = <!--(or | thesis1_year = and | thesis2_year = )--> | doctoral_advisor = [[Bernhard Palsson]] | academic_advisors = [[David Baltimore]] | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | awards = | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = <!--(or | spouses = )--> | partner = <!--(or | partners = )--> | children = | parents = | father = | mother = | relatives = | signature = <!--(filename only)--> | signature_type = <!--(defaults to "Signature")--> | signature_alt = | website = <!--{{URL|www.example.com}}--> | footnotes = }}
'''Markus W. Covert''' (born April 24, 1973) is a researcher and professor of bioengineering at [[Stanford University]] who led the simulation of the first organism in software.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Karr | first1 = JR | last2 = Sanghvi | first2 = JC | last3 = Macklin | first3 = DN | last4 = Gutschow | first4 = MV | last5 = Jacobs | first5 = JM | last6 = Bolival | first6 = B | last7 = Assad-Garcia | first7 = N | last8 = Glass | first8 = JI | last9 = Covert | first9 = MW | year = 2012| title = A Whole-Cell Computational Model Predicts Phenotype from Genotype | journal = Cell | volume = 150 | issue = 2| pages = 389–401 | doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2012.05.044 | pmid = 22817898 | pmc = 3413483 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Freddolino | first1 = PL | last2 = Tavazoie | first2 = S | year = 2012 | title = The Dawn of Virtual Cell Biology | journal = Cell | volume = 150 | issue = 2| pages = 248–250 | doi = 10.1016/j.cell.2012.07.001 | pmid = 22817888 | pmc = 4430847 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/21/science/in-a-first-an-entire-organism-is-simulated-by-software.html?_r=1&hp John Markoff. In a First, an Entire Organism Is Simulated by Software. ''New York Times'' (July 20, 2012)]</ref> Covert leads an interdisciplinary lab of approximately 10 graduate students and post-doctoral scholars.<ref>[http://covertlab.stanford.edu/ Covert Lab at Stanford University]</ref>
== Education == Covert received a B.S. in chemical engineering from [[Brigham Young University]].{{cn|date=June 2014}} He received a Ph.D. in bioengineering and bioinformatics from the [[University of California, San Diego]] in 2003{{cn|date=June 2014}} for his investigations into the interaction between microbial metabolism and transcriptional regulation under the supervision of [[Bernhard Palsson]].<ref>{{cite journal| pmid=15129285 | doi=10.1038/nature02456 | volume=429 | title=Integrating high-throughput and computational data elucidates bacterial networks | date=May 2004 | journal=Nature | pages=92–6 | last1 = Covert | first1 = MW | last2 = Knight | first2 = EM | last3 = Reed | first3 = JL | last4 = Herrgard | first4 = MJ | last5 = Palsson | first5 = BO| issue=6987 | bibcode=2004Natur.429...92C | s2cid=4403433 }}</ref> He did his post-doctoral training in mammalian cell signaling at the [[California Institute of Technology]] under the supervision of [[David Baltimore]].<ref>{{cite journal| pmid=16166516 | doi=10.1126/science.1112304 | volume=309 | title=Achieving stability of lipopolysaccharide-induced NF-kappaB activation | year=2005 | journal=Science | pages=1854–7 | last1 = Covert | first1 = MW | last2 = Leung | first2 = TH | last3 = Gaston | first3 = JE | last4 = Baltimore | first4 = D| issue=5742 | bibcode=2005Sci...309.1854C | s2cid=83751012 | url=https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20141117-143614166 }}</ref>
== Honors and distinctions == * [[NIH Director's Pioneer Award]], 2009<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100527141554/http://commonfund.nih.gov/pioneer/Recipients09.aspx 2009 Pioneer Award Recipients]</ref> * Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, Postdoctoral Fellowship * Brigham Young University, Ezra Taft Benson Presidential Scholarship, 1991-1997
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