Bernhard Ø. Palsson is the Galletti Professor

Professor

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 of Bioengineering

Biomedical engineering

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 and an Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Medicine

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 at the University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

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Palsson has authored or co-authored over 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles and is the holder of over 35 patents. His research interests include metabolic network modelling

Metabolic network modelling

Metabolic network reconstruction and simulation allows for an in depth insight into comprehending the molecular mechanisms of a particular organism, especially correlating the genome with molecular physiology...

, systems biology

Systems biology

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, tissue engineering

Tissue engineering

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 and cell culture

Cell culture

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, the development of analysis procedures for genome-scale models, and the experimental verification of these models in Escherichia coli

Escherichia coli

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, Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Saccharomyces cerevisiae

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and other important organisms.

Palsson serves on the editorial board of several scientific journals including Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Metabolic Engineering and Molecular Systems Biology

Molecular Systems Biology

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Palsson received his PhD

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 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1984 under the supervision of Edwin N. Lightfoot

Edwin N. Lightfoot

Edwin N. Lightfoot is a Chemical Engineer and the Hilldale Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is known for his research in transport phenomena, including biological mass-transfer processes, mass-transport reaction...

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