Lenard Raphael Troncale is an American biologist

Biologist

A biologist is a scientist devoted to and producing results in biology through the study of life. Typically biologists study organisms and their relationship to their environment. Biologists involved in basic research attempt to discover underlying mechanisms that govern how organisms work...

, Professor Cellular and Molecular Biology, and former Director of the Institute for Advanced Systems Studies at the California State Polytechnic University.

Life and work

Troncale studied at the Catholic University of America from 1966 to 1970, and received his Ph.D. in 1970 in Molecular Biology. He started working at the Department of Biology at the California State University

California State University

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. Later in the 1970s he became Professor Cellular and Molecular Biology, and Director of the Institute for Advanced Systems Studies at the California State Polytechnic University. In 1990-91 he served as president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

International Society for the Systems Sciences

The International Society for the Systems Sciences is a world-wide organization for systems sciences.- Overview :The initial purpose of the society was "to encourage the development of theoretical systems which are applicable to more than one of the traditional departments of knowledge."The idea...

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Troncale's research interests are in the fields of Cellular and Molecular Biology; Systems Science; Biosystems Allometry; Biohierarchies; Molecular Evolution; Theory of Systems Emergence; Proteins of the chromosome scaffold and nuclear matrix of eo-eukaryotes; Organization and function of the nucleus; Theoretical models of cell differentiation.

Publications

Troncale has written and edited several books, articles and research papers. Books:

• 1972. Origins of hierarchies by the action of systems field axioms. Pomona : Publisher Pomona, Calif., California State Polytechnic University.
• 1982. Systems science and science : proceedings of the twenty-sixth annual meeting of the Society for General Systems Research with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C., January 5-9, 1982. Edited. Louisville, KY. : Society for General Systems Research.
• 1982. A General Survey of Systems Methodology. (Ed.) Louisville KY: Society for General Systems Research, Jan 1982.
• 1984. The Tao of Systems Science: Systems Science of the Tao. Pomona : Institute for Advanced Systems Studies, Calif. State Univ.

Articles and research papers. A selection:

• 1978. "Linkage Propositions Between Fifty Principle Systems Concepts", in: Applied General Systems Research, ed. George Klir
  George Klir
  George Jiri Klir is a Czech-American computer scientist and professor of systems sciences at the Center for Intelligent Systems at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.- Biography :...
  
  , pp.29-52, Plenum, New York.
• 1979. "The Ecological Imperative: Emergence of Meta-Humans" in: Searching for Civilization: The Humanities and Technology in The Formation of Public Policy. Pomona : Calif. State Polytechnic Univ. pp. 60-93.
• 1980. "Emergence of Meta-Humans", in: Searching for Civilization, pp.60-93, Calif. St. Polytech., Pomona.
• 1981. "Are Levels of Complexity in Bio-Systems Real", in: Applied Systems and Cybernetics, v. 2, ed. George Lasker, pp.1020-1026, Pergamon, New York,
• 1982. "The Emergence of Meta-Humans." in: General Systems Theory and the Psychological Sciences. Vol. I. The Human Knowledge Process. W. Gray, J. Fidler, and J. Battista (Eds.). Intersystems Publications, Seaside, Ca., pp. 187-203.
• 1983. "Towards a Formalization of Systems Linkage Propositions", With B.H. Voorhees. In: General Systems Yearbook, v. 28, ed. R. Ragade, pp.187-195
• 1984. "Hybrid Systems Methodology: Tests for Hierarchy and Linkages Between Isomorphisms", in: Cybernetics and Systems Research 2, ed. R. Trappl, pp.39-45, North-Holland, Béla H. Bánáthy
  Béla H. Bánáthy
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  , pp.186-199, Intersystems, Seaside CA,
• 1985. "Future of General Systems Research", in: Systems Research, v. 2:1, pp.43-84, Reprint in Systems Thinking. Volume One: General Systems Theory, Cybernetics and Complexity. Edited by Gerald Midgley. Sage Publications Ltd. 2003.
• 1986. "Allometry in Biology, Allometry in Systems Science", in: Proc. 30th SGSR, v. 1, ed. John Dillon, pp.D51-D61, SGSR,
• 1987. "Duality Theory III", in: Proc. 31st SGSR, v. 1, ed. Istvan Kiss, SGSR,
• 1988. "New Field of Systems Allometry", in: Cybernetics and Systems '88, ed. R. Trappl, pp.123-130, Kluwer, Boston,
• 1988. "Systems Sciences: What Are They? Are They One, or Many?", European J. of Operational Research, v. 37, pp.8-33,
• 1990. With D. Williams, J. Putinier, and J. Cramer (1990b) "What Empirical Testing of Hierarchies & Systems Allometry Says About General Systems Models of Evolution/Emergence", Proceedings of the 34th Annual Mtg. of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Portland State University, pp. 1151-1156. (Béla A. Bánáthy
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  , Editor)
• 1991. "GENSYS: A Knowledge-Base for Systems Science", pp.589-604, \"Ostersund, presented at 35th ISSS,
• 1991. "Six Case Studies of Empirically-Based Chaos/Fractal Research", With Chung Lee and K. Nelson, et al. In: Proc. 35th ISSS, ed. Béla A. Bánáthy and Béla H. Bánáthy, pp. 1157-1164, ISSS,

External links

• Personal homepage Len Troncale, Ph.D.