Pupa Gilbert Explained

Pupa Gilbert
Birth Date:29 September 1964
Field:Biophysics
Work Institution:University of Wisconsin–Madison
Known For:biomineralization, synchrotron spectromicroscopy
Prizes:2001 Knighthood of Italy, 2010 Fellow, American Physical Society,1997 "TOYP" Award (The Outstanding Young Persons of the world),2012 International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge

Pupa Gilbert is an American biophysicist and geobiologist. She has been pioneering synchrotron spectromicroscopy methods since 1989,[1] [2] [3] and she continues to use and develop them today. Since 2004 she has focused on biomineralization in sea urchins,[4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] mollusk shells,[11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] and tunicates.[18] She and her group are frequent users of the Berkeley-Advanced Light Source.

Biography

She was born and raised in Rome, Italy; her previous name was Gelsomina De Stasio. She was a staff scientist at the Italian National Research Council (Istituto di Struttura della Materia) and at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne. In 1999 she moved to the University of Wisconsin at Madison as a full professor in the Department of Physics. She has honorary appointments in the departments of Chemistry and Materials Science.

She is a Knight of her native Italy (2001), a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS-DCMP, 2010),[19] and a Radcliffe Fellow (2014-2015).[20] She was chair of the APS Division of Biological Physics (DBIO, 2010-2014), won many national and international awards including: Romnes 2002, Vilas 2006, Hamel 2008, and Chancellor Distinguished Teaching Award 2011[21] at UW-Madison; The Outstanding Young Persons of the World (TOYP-JCI, 1997), the American Competitiveness and Innovation Award (ACI-NSF, 2008); the Best University Research Award (DOE-BES-Geosciences, 2011), the Science-NSF Visualizations Challenge] (2012).[22] [23]

She teaches Physics in the Arts, for which she wrote a textbook,[24] co-authored by Willy Haeberli and published by Academic Press-Elsevier (2008, 2011) and translated into Chinese (2011).

Awards

Notes and References

  1. Gilbert . PUPA . Young . A . Coppersmith . SN . Susan Coppersmith . Measurements of C-axis angular orientation in calcite(CaCO3)nanocrystals using x-ray absorption spectroscopy . 11350–11355 . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . July 12, 2011 . 10.1073/pnas.1107917108 . 21693647 . 108. 28 . 2011PNAS..10811350G . 3136314 . free .
  2. Gilbert . PUPA . Polarization-dependent Imaging Contrast (PIC) mapping reveals nanocrystal orientation patterns in carbonate biominerals . Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena . 185 . 10 . 2012 . 395–405 . 10.1016/j.elspec.2012.06.001. 2012JESRP.185..395G .
  3. Book: Gilbert . PUPA . Biomineralization Sourcebook . CRC netBase . CRC Press . 135 . 2014 . 10.1201/b16621-12. Photoemission spectromicroscopy for the biomineralogist . 978-1-4665-1835-3 .
  4. Politi . Y . Mezler . RA . Abrecht . M . Gilbert . B . Wilt . FH . Sagi . I . Addadi . L . Weiner . S . Gilbert . PUPA . Transformation mechanism of amorphous calcium carbonate into calcite in the sea urchin larval spicule . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 2008 . 105 . 45 . 17362–17366 . 10.1073/pnas.0806604105. 18987314 . 2008PNAS..10517362P . 2582271 . free .
  5. Killian . CE . Metzler . RA . Gong . YT . Olson . IC . Aizenberg . J . Politi . Y . Wilt . FH . Scholl . A . Young . A . Doran . A . Kunz . M . Tamura . N . Coppersmith . SN . Susan Coppersmith . Gilbert . PUPA . The mechanism of calcite co-orientation in the sea urchin tooth . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 2009 . 18404–18409 . 131 . 51 . 10.1021/ja907063z. 19954232 .
  6. MA . YR . Aichmayer . B . Paris . O . Fratzl . P . Meibom . A . Metzler . RA . Politi . Y . Addadi . L . Gilbert . PUPA . Weiner . S . The grinding tip of the sea urchin tooth exhibits exquisite control over calcite crystal orientation and Mg distribution . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 2010 . 106 . 15 . 6048–6053 . 10.1073/pnas.0810300106 . 19332795 . 2662956. 2009PNAS..106.6048M . free .
  7. Radha . AV . Forbes . TZ . Killian . CE . Gilbert . PUPA . Navrotsky . A . Transformation and crystallization energetics of synthetic and biogenic amorphous calcium carbonate . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 107 . 38 . 16438–16443 . 2010 . 10.1073/pnas.1009959107. 20810918 . 2010PNAS..10716438R . 2944757 . free .
  8. Killian . CE . Metzler . RA . Gong . YUT . Churchill . TH . Olson . IC . Trubetskov . V . Christensen . MB . Fournelle . JH . De Carlo . F . Cohen . S . Mahamid . J . Wilt . FH . Scholl . A . Young . A . Doran . A . Coppersmith . SN. Susan Coppersmith . Gilbert . PUPA . Self-sharpening mechanism of the sea urchin tooth . Advanced Functional Materials . 2011 . 21 . 4 . 682–690 . 10.1002/adfm.201001546.
  9. Yang . L . Killian . CE . Kunz . M . Tamura . N . Gilbert . PUPA . Biomineral nanoparticles are space-filling . Nanoscale. 2011 . 3 . 2 . 603–609 . 10.1039/c0nr00697a. 21082124 . 2011Nanos...3..603Y .
  10. Gong . YUT . Killian . CE . Olson . IC . Appathurai . NP . Amasino . AL . Martin . MC . Holt . LJ . Wilt . FH . Gilbert . PUPA . Phase transitions in biogenic amorphous calcium carbonate . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America . 2011 . 109 . 16 . 6088–6093 . 10.1073/pnas.1118085109. 22492931 . 2012PNAS..109.6088G . 3341025 . free .
  11. Metzler . RA . Abrecht . M . Olabisi . RM . Ariosa . D . Johnson . CJ . Frazer . BH . Coppersmith . SN. Susan Coppersmith . Gilbert . PUPA . Architecture of columnar nacre, and implications for its formation mechanism . Physical Review Letters . 98 . 26 . 268102 . 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.268102 . 2007PhRvL..98z8102M . 17678131 . June 2007. 6432287 .
  12. Gilbert . PUPA . Metzler . RA . Zhou . D . Scholl . A . Doran . A . Young . A . Kunz . M . Tamura . N . Coppersmith . SN. Susan Coppersmith . Gradual Ordering in Red Abalone Nacre . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 2008 . 130 . 51 . 17519–17527 . 10.1021/ja8065495. 19049281 .
  13. Metzler . RA . Zhou . D . Abrecht . M . Chiou . J-W . Guo . J . Ariosa . D . Coppersmith . SN . Susan Coppersmith . Gilbert . PUPA . Polarization-dependent imaging contrast in abalone shells . Physical Review B . 2008 . 77 . 6 . 064110 . 10.1103/physrevb.77.064110. 2008PhRvB..77f4110M .
  14. Metzler . RA . Evans . JS . Killian . CE . Zhou . D . Churchill . TH . Appathurai . NP . Coppersmith . SN . Susan Coppersmith . Gilbert . PUPA . Nacre protein fragment templates lamellar aragonite growth . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 2010 . 132 . 18 . 6329–6334 . 10.1021/ja909735y. 20397648 .
  15. Olson . IC . Kozdon . R . Valley . JW . Gilbert . PUPA . Mollusk shell nacre ultrastructure correlates with environmental temperature and pressure . Journal of the American Chemical Society . 2012 . 134 . 17 . 7351–7358 . 10.1021/ja210808s . 22313180.
  16. Olson . IC . Metzler . RA . Tamura . N . Kunz . M . Killian . CE . Gilbert . PUPA . Crystal lattice tilting in prismatic calcite . Journal of Structural Biology . 183 . 2 . 180–190 . 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.06.006. 23806677 . 2013 .
  17. Olson . IC . Blonsky . AZ . Tamura . N . Kunz . M . Gilbert . PUPA . Crystal nucleation and near-epitaxial growth in nacre . Journal of Structural Biology . 184 . 3 . 454–463 . 10.1016/j.jsb.2013.10.002. 24121160 . 2013 . 1301.6273 . 2013arXiv1301.6273O . 32128430 .
  18. Kabalah-Amitai . L . Mayzel . B . Kauffmann . Y . Fitch . AN . Bloch . L . Gilbert . PUPA . Pokroy . B . Vaterite crystals contain two interspersed crystal structures . Science . 340 . 6131 . 454–457 . 10.1126/science.1232139 . 23620047. 2013 . 2013Sci...340..454K . 206546317 .
  19. Web site: APS Fellowship.
  20. Web site: Fellows.
  21. Web site: Distinguished Teaching Awards - University of Wisconsin-Madison - Past Recipients . www.secfac.wisc.edu . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20060829055703/http://www.secfac.wisc.edu/committees/teachingawards/PastRecipients.asp . 2006-08-29.
  22. Web site: nsf.gov - Special Report - International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge . www.nsf.gov . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130203100413/http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners_2012.jsp . 2013-02-03.
  23. Gilbert . PUPA . Killian . CE . Biomineral Single Crystals . Science . 2013 . no.339 . 510.
  24. Book: Gilbert . PUPA . Haeberli . W . Physics in the Arts . Academic Press-Elsevier . 2011 . 9780123918789.

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