Reka Z. Albert, PhD - Penn State Cancer Institute
Researcher Profile
Reka Z. Albert, PhD
Distinguished Professor, Physics
Scientific Program:Experimental Therapeutics
Recent Publications
2025
Gan, X, Li, G, Yang, W, Xu, J, Albert, R & Gao, B 2025, 'A Protein Interactome-Based Framework Reveals the General Toxicity of Chemicals', Environmental Science and Technology, vol. 59, no. 45, pp. 24291-24301. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.5c08341
Pastva, S, Park, KH, Huvar, O, Rozum, JC & Albert, R 2025, 'An open problem: Why are motif-avoidant attractors so rare in asynchronous Boolean networks?', Journal of Mathematical Biology, vol. 91, no. 1, 11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00285-025-02235-8
Park, KH, Rozum, JC & Albert, R 2025, 'Automated model refinement using perturbation-observation pairs', NPJ systems biology and applications, vol. 11, no. 1, 65. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-025-00532-y
Sengupta, P, Azarhooshang, N, Albert, R & Dasgupta, B 2025, 'Finding influential cores via normalized Ricci flows in directed and undirected hypergraphs with applications', Physical Review E, vol. 111, no. 4, 044316. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.044316
Newby, E, Shi, W, Jiao, Y, Torquato, S & Albert, R 2025, 'From point patterns to networks: to what extent does the Delaunay triangulation reproduce key spatial and density information?', Journal of Complex Networks, vol. 13, no. 6, cnaf040. https://doi.org/10.1093/comnet/cnaf040
Newby, E, Shi, W, Jiao, Y, Albert, R & Torquato, S 2025, 'Structural properties of hyperuniform Voronoi networks', Physical Review E, vol. 111, no. 3, 034123. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.111.034123
2024
Gan, X, Sengottaiyan, P, Park, KH, Assmann, SM & Albert, R 2024, 'A network-based modeling framework reveals the core signal transduction network underlying high carbon dioxide-induced stomatal closure in guard cells', PLoS biology, vol. 22, no. 5 May, e3002592. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3002592
Yang, X, Albert, R, Elreda, LM & Ram, N 2024, 'Modeling and managing behavior change in groups: A Boolean network method', advances.in/psychology, vol. 2024, no. 1. https://doi.org/10.56296/aip00009
2023
Li, R, Rozum, JC, Quail, MM, Qasim, MN, Sindi, SS, Nobile, CJ, Albert, R & Hernday, AD 2023, 'Inferring gene regulatory networks using transcriptional profiles as dynamical attractors', PLoS computational biology, vol. 19, no. 8 August, e1010991. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010991
Park, KH, Costa, FX, Rocha, LM, Albert, R & Rozum, JC 2023, 'Models of Cell Processes are Far from the Edge of Chaos', PRX Life, vol. 1, no. 2, 023009. https://doi.org/10.1103/PRXLife.1.023009
Gan, X, Shu, Z, Wang, X, Yan, D, Li, J, Ofaim, S, Albert, R, Li, X, Liu, B, Zhou, X & Barabási, AL 2023, 'Network medicine framework reveals generic herb-symptom effectiveness of traditional Chinese medicine', Science Advances, vol. 9, no. 43, eadh0215. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adh0215
Fatemi Nasrollahi, FS, Campbell, C & Albert, R 2023, 'Predicting cascading extinctions and efficient restoration strategies in plant–pollinator networks via generalized positive feedback loops', Scientific reports, vol. 13, no. 1, 902. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-27525-3
Newby, E, Zañudo, JGT & Albert, R 2023, 'Structure-based approach to identify driver nodes in ensembles of biologically inspired Boolean networks', Physical Review Research, vol. 5, no. 3, 033009. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.5.033009
2022
Maheshwari, P, Assmann, SM & Albert, R 2022, 'Inference of a Boolean Network From Causal Logic Implications', Frontiers in Genetics, vol. 13, 836856. https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2022.836856
Rozum, J & Albert, R 2022, 'Leveraging network structure in nonlinear control', NPJ systems biology and applications, vol. 8, no. 1, 36. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41540-022-00249-2
Gan, X & Albert, R 2022, Modeling Biological Information Processing Networks. in Graduate Texts in Physics. Graduate Texts in Physics, vol. Part F7392, Springer Verlag, pp. 213-236. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98606-3_8
Rozum, JC, Deritei, D, Park, KH, Zañudo, JGT & Albert, R 2022, 'Pystablemotifs: Python library for attractor identification and control in Boolean networks', Bioinformatics, vol. 38, no. 5, pp. 1465-1466. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab825
Newby, E, Tejeda Zanudo, JG & Albert, R 2022, 'Structure-based approach to identifying small sets of driver nodes in biological networks', Chaos, vol. 32, no. 6, 063102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0080843
Campbell, C, Russo, L, Albert, R, Buckling, A & Shea, K 2022, 'Whole community invasions and the integration of novel ecosystems', PLoS computational biology, vol. 18, no. 6, e1010151. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010151