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Rick Welch
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Rick Welch
Dean of Arts and Sciences Emeritus
Postdoctorate (Theoretical Biophysics), Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium, 1975; Ph.D. (Biochemistry), University of Tennessee - Oak Ridge Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1975; B.S. (Physics), University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1970
Selected publications

Welch, G. R., Physiology: A Biography of Nature. Peter Lang Academic Publisher, Bern, Switzerland, under contract.

Welch, G. R., Talasek, J. D., and Finneran, K., editors. Visual Culture and Evolution, U. S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C., in press. [Proceedings of an online symposium held 5-14 April 2010, sponsored by the U. S. National Academy of Sciences].

Welch, G. R. "Fuzziness" in the cellular interactome: A historical perspective. In Fuzziness: Structural Disorder in Protein Complexes (Tompa, P. and Fuxreiter, M., editors), Landes Bioscience, Austin, Texas, in press.

Welch, G. R. and Clegg, J. S. (2010). Reply to Letter to the Editor: "Systemic cell theory, protoplasmic theory, and their logic of explanation." Amer. J. Physiol. – Cell Physiol. 299: C537.

Welch, G. R. and Clegg, J. S. (2010). From protoplasmic theory to cellular systems biology: A 150-year reflection. Amer. J. Physiol. – Cell Physiol. 298: C1280–C1290 [The inaugural article in the journal's new "Historical Perspective" section].

Welch, G. R. (2009). Physiology, physiomics, and biophysics: A matter of words. Prog. Biophys. Mol. Biol. 100: 4-17.

Welch, G. R. (2009). The "fuzzy" interactome. Trends Biochem. Sci. 34: 1-2.

Welch, G. R. (2008). In retrospect: Fernel's "Physiologia." Nature 456: 446-447.