Zoltan N. Oltvai, M.D. Dr. Oltvai is Associate Professor of Pathology and Assistant Director, Division of Molecular Diagnostics. More information about this division is available here. He is also member of the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Science Graduate Program, the Medical Scientist Training Program and the Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology Office Location: Rm. S701 Scaife Hall University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA 15261 Contact Information: Office Phone: (412) 648-8519 Fax: (412) 383-9594 Email Address: oltvai@pitt.edu Research Interests: Dr. Oltvai's research interest is in the area of systems biology, focusing on how the functional organization of molecular interaction networks define and constrain cellular functions. For more information, see Oltvai's Lab Clinical Interests: Dr. Oltvai's clinical interest is in advanced molecular pathology, with a specific interest on systems biology approaches to molecular diagnosis of disease states. Selected Publications: View Dr. Oltvai's publications on PubMed. Balazsi, G., Barabasi, A.-L. and Oltvai, Z.N., (2005) Topological units of environmental signal processing in the transcriptional regulatory network of Escherichia coli, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A., 102, 7841-6 Balazsi, G., and Oltvai, Z.N., (2005) Sensing your surroundings: How transcription-regulatory networks of the cell discern environmental signals. Science STKE, pe20 Almaas, E., Kovacs, B., Vicsek, T., Oltvai, Z.N. and Barabasi, A.-L. (2004) Global organization of metabolic fluxes in the bacterium, Escherichia coli, Nature 427, 839-43 Barabasi, A.-L., and Oltvai, Z.N. (2004) Network biology: understanding the cell's functional organization. Nature Rev. Genet. 5, 101-13