Sentences with phrase «gene regulation group»

The Computational Biology & Gene Regulation group aims at developing cutting - edge bioinformatics tools with immediate application to real - life biological problems.

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Specifically, Toni Gabaldón's group at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona has compared the Iberian lynx genome with those of other species, attempting to identify genes that have lost their function because they have remained isolated and the existence of a small population of specimens of this species.

A new function now described for the protein dDsk2 by the team headed by Ferran Azorín, group leader at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and CSIC research professor, links ubiquitin receptors for the first time with the regulation of gene expression.

The research that led to these findings is part of a larger effort to better understand gene regulation and expression, carried out by the GTEx Consortium, a National Institutes of Health - funded group that includes researchers from around 80 institutions founded in 2010.

The groups of Santiago Lamas, Lisardo Bósca, and Juan Miguel Redondo explore various aspects of gene regulation and pathophysiological processes in the vascular wall.

The 28 groups that will eventually make up the CRG will be organised around five main programmes — Gene Regulation, Development and Cell Biology, Cell Differentiation and Cancer, Genes and Diseases, and Bioinformatics and Genomics — each of which will be headed by a senior scientist leading his or her own group.

The team discovered that the genes responsible for the regulation of NRL became more refined in the placental mammals as the modern retina evolved and were lost in several non-mammalian groups.

«By exploiting the unique nature of GAM data, mathematical models can reliably derive such information, opening the way to identify multiple, group interactions that could play a key role in the regulation of genes,» explains Nicodemi.

In 1984, he moved to the Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology, at Osaka University (Osaka, Japan), where his research group continued to study the regulation of interferon genes and discovered the interferon - regulatory - factor family of transcription factors.

It is an important factor for the correct regulation of gene expression within all these groups of organisms.

Using drug repurposing, Yoshimura's group not only identified circadian rhythm changing drugs, but also succeeded in identifying genes that are involved in the regulation of the circadian clock.

Several functions vary among the members of this group of bacteria, such as metabolism of nitrogen, respiration, cell wall and capsule, stress response, secondary metabolite biosynthesis, regulation and cell signaling; this variation in gene functions could help us understand the ability of colonization and adaptability of these rhizosphere - colonizing bacteria.

The main research focus of the single molecule group is the study of molecular motors, the role of force in regulating biological systems, and the molecular mechanisms of gene expression regulation.

In a paper published in Nature Genetics, an interdisciplinary research team of scientists from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG)-- including a Centro Nacional de Análisis Genómico (CNAG - CRG) group — in Barcelona, Spain, shows that the three - dimensional organisation of the genome plays a key role in gene expression and consequently in determining cell fate.

The Kind group studies the regulation of gene expression in single cells by developing and using novel microscopy and genomics based techniques.

His group work on understanding the regulation of gene expression, especially at the single - cell level where he has pioneered analytical approaches.

The groups plan to further characterize gene activity in tissues by analyzing several molecular phenotypes, or properties of cells - such as which genes are turned on and off, the various ways genes are regulated and the proteins that cells produce based on such regulation.

Professor Dockrell and her group are investigating mechanisms that regulate the production of immune - related proteins, starting from gene regulation (epigenetics), gene expression (transcriptomics), cell phenotypes (flow cytometry) and finally protein release.

In 2006, she became a Research Fellow at the Hormone Action and Oncogenesis group at the LRBGE and extended her work on GR biology and GR - target genes regulation in response to the ultradian secretion of glucocorticoids occurring naturally in mammalian systems.