Jeff Gore
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Jeffrey Chen Gore | |
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| Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Evolutional and ecological systems biology research |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Thesis | Single-molecule studies of DNA twist mechanics and gyrase mechanochemistry (2005) |
| Doctoral advisor | Carlos Bustamante |
Jeff Gore is an American physicist and associate professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He is also an advocate for repealing the United States penny, through the organization Citizens to Retire the U.S. Penny, which he founded.
Gore studied at MIT in the late 1990s as an undergraduate, and received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005 with a Hertz Graduate Fellowship.[1] His dissertation research was done in the laboratory of Carlos Bustamante, and focused on single-molecule biophysics.[1]
Academic career and research
Gore worked as a Pappalardo Fellow at MIT's physics department for three years, until January 2010, when he became an assistant professor there.[1] In 2013, he published a study in which he and Alvaro Sanchez combined yeast cells that could break down table sugar normally with "cheated" off of other cells because they could not produce the enzymes that break down table sugar. The study found that the colonies containing both "cheaters" and normal cells grew almost the same size as the groups with only normal cells, but only in benign environments; when the researchers took away some of the colonies' sugar supply, all of the mixed groups became extinct.[2][3]
