Sentences with phrase «as microbiologists»

She found — as some microbiologists have long thought — that many microbes are everywhere.

As microbiologists have pointed out, bacteria are known to scavenge genes from the spilled DNA of their dead.

Dr. James Sandercock, trained as a microbiologist before getting involved with biodegradable plastics and making fuel - grade ethanol for vehicles, is Chair of NAIT's Alternative Energy Technology program.

«By advancing my knowledge of bacteria and viruses in the built environment at Shedd Aquarium, I will be able to enhance my engineering skills and experience as a microbiologist.»

Piot had a successful career as a microbiologist, including the discovery of the Ebola virus, and did some of the early research on AIDS in Africa.

Prior to his managerial career, Sykes was a researcher, earning a doctorate in 1973 from Bristol University and then working as a microbiologist for many years, both at Glaxo and at Princeton's Squibb Institute for Medical Research.

Trained as a microbiologist, Venkat brings to his task an impressive history of sleuthing out wily tiny critters.

Trained as a microbiologist, he develops life detection techniques to be applied to ancient Earth and extraterrestrial samples.

Prior to this, she was a medical officer in ART centre at B&LC Hospitals for three years, and before this, she worked at Anand Diagnostics as a microbiologist and helped the laboratory in NABL audits of 2009 and 2011.

It totally eliminates the issue by literally «infecting,» or, as a microbiologist might say, «reinoculating» your large intestine with bacterial strain.

After working as a microbiologist for a year, he moved up north and earned his DVM from UC Davis.

As a microbiologist, he cultivates fungus that he applies to his film.

What strikes me as a microbiologist is how far removed from correct standards of science this click is.

To obtain a challenging position as a Microbiologist where my skills and experience can be utilized to benefit a company where advancement opportunities exist.

Not exact matches

Dickson Despommier, microbiologist and ecologist, and emeritus professor of microbiology and public health at Columbia University, is known as the «father» of vertical farming.

Norm Robillard, a microbiologist and expert on SIBO, is now carefully optimistic about the potential for resistant starch as part of a therapy for SIBO for some people.

Pellettieri began her career in brewing as a chemist and microbiologist at the Siebel Institute of Technology and World Brewing Academy in Chicago, where she also taught sensory management.

Meat industry lobbyists maintain that BLBT is nothing more than «lean, nutritious» beef, but it's well worth noting that two former microbiologists at USDA's Food Safety Inspection Service — now federal whistleblowers — have vociferously protested the agency's controversial decision to classify BLBT as «meat.»

Researchers could now see the culprits and distinguish between similar diseases such as anthrax, cholera and, yes, bubonic plague, which was isolated in 1894 and named Yersinia pestis in honor of Swiss microbiologist Alexandre Yersin.

Microbiologist James Holden of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst speculates that our planet's deep biomass could weigh as much as all the things living up here on the surface.

Microbiologist Elizabeth Emmert of Salisbury University in Maryland studies B. bacterio - vorus as a means to protect crops — carrots and potatoes — from bacterial soft rot diseases.

Joint first author of the study, microbiologist Dr Jo Fothergill said: «We have discovered that the nasopharynx acts as a silent reservoir for bacteria from which more serious infections in the lungs can develop.»

That means New Mexico State University microbiologist Geoffrey Battle Smith has spent most summers commuting to work in a bumpy, 500 - feet - a-minute elevator down a 2,150 - foot mine shaft in the desert outside Carlsbad, N.M. Inside a tunnel, formally known as a drift, Smith incubates bacteria and mammalian cells in a steel vault the size of a garden shed.

«When lettuce was shipped as entire heads, a contaminated head of lettuce was unlikely to contaminate another head of lettuce,» says James Kaper, a microbiologist at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore.

«As someone who's studied evolutionary biology for a long time, I think it has a real wow factor,» says Sam Brown, a microbiologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta who wasn't involved in the study.

«These cyanobacteria use the entire cell body as a lens to focus an image of the light source at the cell membrane, as in the retina of an animal eye,» says University of London microbiologist Conrad Mullineaux, who helped to make the discovery.

He believed it was a question of evolution, as did most microbiologists.

«We as a species are not exposed to the same germs that we were exposed to in the past,» says study co-author Dennis Kasper, a microbiologist at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Mass..

«This is going to be one of those transformative papers,» says microbiologist Martha Clokie, who studies viruses that infect bacteria (known as bacteriophages, or phages) at the University of Leicester, UK.

For example, Bill is a microbiologist who describes his job doing process validation in a biotech manufacturing facility as «pure drudge; the kind of thing you'd have to pay me twice what I'm making to enjoy.»

Floyd Wormley Jr., a microbiologist at the University of Texas, San Antonio, serves as a standing member on NIH's AIDS - associated Opportunistic Infections and Cancer study section, which reviews grant proposals on that topic, scores them, and forwards the best ones to the appropriate NIH institutes for the final funding decision.

Stanford microbiologist Gary Schoolnik and his colleagues report in today's issue of Science that hairlike appendages on the surface of the bacterium, known as bundle - forming pili, are critical to the virulence of these bacteria.

Among microbiologists, this process is known as the «kill the winner» principle.

Columbia University microbiologist Vincent Racaniello, who helped develop the first artificial virus in the 1980s, cites the stir created four years ago when nearly 5,000 labs seeking accreditation were mistakenly shipped vials of the 1957 pandemic flu strain as part of their test kits.

As a lead author of a chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment report released this month, Kansas State University Distinguished Professor and soil microbiologist Chuck Rice gave a presentation at the World Bank on April 16.

«Up to now, salt has been regarded as a detrimental dietary factor; it is clearly known to be detrimental for cardiovascular diseases, and recent studies have implicated a role in worsening autoimmune diseases,» says first study author Jonathan Jantsch, a microbiologist at Universitätsklinikum Regensburg and Universität Regensburg.

As a graduate student in the lab of microbiologist John Boothroyd of Stanford University School of Medicine, Pernas questioned two existing assumptions: that all three main strains of Toxoplasma interact with mitochondria in the same way, and that the key protein underpinning this relationship had already been found.

In the late 1950s, as a young microbiologist at the Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Hayflick studied viruses that might cause cancer.

«Hospital - acquired C. difficile infections have bloomed as a problem in the last 10 - 15 years, representing $ 4.8 billion in added healthcare costs,» says Patrick Schloss, a microbiologist at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor who oversaw the study.

The second sent my chart down as fast as the recent performance of Maxwell shares, to the delight of the prescribing microbiologist.

As for how many people the planet can sustain, the first such estimate came from microbiologist Anton van Leeuwenhoek who calculated roughly 13.4 billion people back in 1679, based on the population density of his native Holland and its size relative to the rest of the globe.

As scientists began to sequence human genes in the 1990s, sorting out the cellular locations of each gene's proteins became a priority, says Mathias Uhlén, a microbiologist at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, and director of the Protein Atlas effort.

In his office, NASA microbiologist Kasthuri Venkateswaran — known as Venkat — nods vigorously in affirmation.

Our able and accomplished foursome includes only one academic, microbiologist Carol Berkower, who teaches and heads her own lab as an assistant professor at Towson University, a primarily undergraduate public institution near Baltimore.

Microbiologists suspect that many other species may be jet - setters as well.

«We can think of the Vostok drill as a 65 - ton enrichment culture,» says Brent Christner, a microbiologist at Louisiana State University.

The authors of the consensus statement are a collection of experts in the field of Streptococcal diseases in horses including veterinary microbiologists, epidemiologists, and veterinarians who research this disease, as well as internists who encounter the disease frequently.»

Ecologists and microbiologists have often lumped microbes with similar DNA sequences together as effective, «operational» taxonomic (or classification) units.

Benoit Chassaing, a microbiologist at Georgia State University in Atlanta, wondered if such a bacterial invasion could explain what he describes as a «perfect correlation» between the increasing use of food additives in industrialized countries and the incidence of IBD.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»