Position Professor of Physics and Biophysics Office Phone 609-258-4335 Email [email protected] Assistant Alison Phillips Office 120 Jadwin Hall Website TG Lab Advisee(s): Zoe Aridor Bio/Description Thomas Gregor is a professor of physics and biophysics at Princeton University. He holds an M.S. in physics from the Université de Genève in Switzerland and a Ph.D. in biophysics from Princeton University. In addition to his appointment at Princeton, he is head of the unit "Physics of Biological Function" in the Department of Developmental and Stem Cell Biology at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France. His research interests include the physics of cellular processes, biological pattern formation, gene regulatory networks, precision measurements in multicellular organisms, optics, imaging and image analysis, and machine learning. His honors and awards include an ERC Synergy Grant in 2023 and a Searle Scholarship in 2010. He is an elected Fellow of the American Physical Society and an elected member of the European Molecular Biology Organization. At Princeton University, he runs the Laboratory for the Physics of Life, which is dedicated to studying the basic physical principles that govern the existence of multicellular life. Selected Publications Abouchar L, Petkova MD, Steinhardt CR, Gregor T (2013). Precision and reproducibility of macroscopic developmental patterns. arXiv.org:1309.6273 [q-bio.TO]. Garcia HG, Tikhonov M, Lin A, Gregor T (2013). Quantitative imaging of transcription in living Drosophila embryos links polymerase activity to patterning. Current Biology 23: 2114–2119.Little SC, Tikhonov M, Gregor T (2013). Precise developmental gene expression arises from globally stochastic transcriptional activity. Cell 154: 789–800.Liu F, Morrison AH, Gregor T (2013). Dynamic interpretation of maternal inputs by the Drosophila segmentation gene network. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 110: 6724–6729.Dubuis JO, Samanta R, Gregor T (2013). Accurate measurements of dynamics and reproducibility in small genetic networks. Molecular Systems Biology 9: 639.Little SC, Tkacik G, Kneeland T, Wieschaus EF, Gregor T (2011). The formation of the Bicoid morphogen gradient requires protein movement from anteriorily localized mRNA. PLoS Biology 9(3), e1000596.Gregor T, Fujimoto K, Masaki N, Sawai S (2010). The onset of collective behavior in social amoebae. Science 328: 1021–1026.
