Contact
Massey University
NZIAS
Gate 4, Building 12
Oteha Rohe, Albany
Auckland, New Zealand
+64 9 4140800 ext 41513
e(dot)libby(shift2)massey.ac.nz
Eric Libby, PhD
I am interested in how multicellular organisms arose from a sea of egomaniacal, unicellular organisms.
Background
I completed my PhD at the Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics at McGill University under the tutelage of Leon Glass. My training is in mathematical and computational techniques applied to problems in biology.
Research interests
At this very moment, I am investigating how exclusion rules select for bet-hedging strategies, sex, and modularity. I also have the privilege of collaborating with hardened experimentalists Caroline Rose and Katrin Hammerschmidt on a project exploring the evolution of multicellularity.
Publications from previous work
Cardin S, Pelletier P, Libby E, Le Bouter S, Xiao L, Kaab S, Demolombe S, Glass L, Nattel S. (2008) Marked differences between atrial and ventricular gene-expression remodeling in dogs with experimental heart failure. J Mol Cell Cardiol. 45(6):821-31.
Burstein B, Libby E, Calderone A, Nattel S. (2008) Differential behaviors of atrial versus ventricular fibroblasts: a potential role for platelet-derived growth factor in atrial-ventricular remodeling differences. Circulation 117(13):1630-41.
Libby E, Perkins TJ, Swain PS. (2007) Noisy information processing through transcriptional regulation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 104(17):7151-6.
Cardin S, Libby E, Pelletier P, Le Bouter S, Shiroshita-Takeshita A, Le Meur N, Leger J, Demolombe S, Ponton A, Glass L, Nattel S. (2007) Contrasting gene expression profiles in two canine models of atrial fibrillation. Circ Res. 100(3):425-33.
Wang TT, Tavera-Mendoza LE, Laperriere D, Libby E, MacLeod NB, Nagai Y, Bourdeau V, Konstorum A, Lallemant B, Zhang R, Mader S, White JH. (2005) Large-scale in silico and microarray-based identification of direct 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 target genes. Mol Endocrinol. 19(11):2685-95.
Scientific Journalism
As part of the AAAS Mass Media fellowship, I had the honor of working at Voice of America . It was an amazing opportunity to be around such talented people. Here are a few stories I did while there:
Squid Study Sheds Light on Benign Bacteria Communication