Sentences with phrase «gladstone postdoctoral»

Shaikh's mentors — Gladstone postdoctoral fellow Kristin Keck, PhD and graduate student Stephanie Moquin — were drawn to the program by the dual opportunity to give back to the community and to spread the word on why basic science research is so important.

In the second study, authored by Gladstone postdoctoral scholar Mingliang Zhang, PhD, and published in Cell Stem Cell, the scientists created neural stem cells from mouse skin cells using a similar approach.

Embryonic cardiac fibroblasts promote myocyte proliferation, while adult fibroblasts promote myocyte hypertrophy,» said Masaki Ieda, MD, PhD, Gladstone postdoctoral fellow and lead author on the study.

But Gladstone postdoctoral scholar Li Qian, PhD, along with researchers in the laboratory of Deepak Srivastava, MD, has now accomplished this transformation in living animals — and with even greater success.

«Our results are proof of principle that a thrombin - specific molecular probe could be used as an early - detection method,» added former Gladstone Postdoctoral Researcher Kim Baeten, PhD, the paper's other lead author.

Gladstone Postdoctoral Training Program Gladstone's postdoctoral training program recognizes that postdoctoral scholars are one of the «prime engines» of scientific advancement at Gladstone.

«But whether such neuronal - network disruptions also impair memory was unknown,» said Gladstone Postdoctoral Fellow Pascal Sanchez, PhD, who is the paper's lead author.

The research team, which included Gladstone Postdoctoral Scholar Haixia Wang, PhD, the study's lead author, identified a four - molecule chemical cocktail that could guide the skin cells into becoming more like heart cells.

«Our analysis reveals support for the «bursting» hypothesis — the genes acted as a sort of strobe light — transcribing RNA in rapid - fire bursts,» said Roy Dar, PhD, a Gladstone postdoctoral fellow and one of the paper's lead authors.

Gladstone Postdoctoral Fellow Roy Dar, PhD, also contributed to this research, which was supported by the National Institutes of Health, the Pew Charitable Trust, the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (United States Department of Energy), the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program and the National Cancer Institutes.

In doing so, they discovered that reducing the activity of a protein known as IFI16 inhibited pyroptosis, explained Zhiyuan Yang, PhD, a Gladstone postdoctoral fellow who is one of the paper's two lead authors.

«Surprisingly, NFAT didn't appear to play a central role so we went back to the drawing board, exploring other protein families we thought might be involved,» said Gladstone Postdoctoral Fellow Jonathan Chan, PhD, the paper's lead author.

As a result, the Committee to Evaluate the Gladstone Postdoctoral Fellows Training Program (CEGPFTP) was born.

Not exact matches

Drawing from the concerns highlighted in this report, the Institutes formed seven subcommittees — stipends and benefits; adequacy of training; mentoring; duration of training and career path setting; career advice and job placement; satisfaction with choice of Gladstone for postdoctoral studies; and a catch - all of additional issues — to address specific issues.

Then, in September of 1999, we launched the new Gladstone Institutes Postdoctoral Training Program, incorporating many of the recommended changes (see sidebar) with a continuing commitment to improve stipends and benefits, mentoring, and career development.

Recognizing that the excellence and hard work of postdocs are among the «prime engines» that makes scientific advancement possible, the J. David Gladstone Institutes set out to redefine its postdoctoral fellows program in September 1998.

John is currently the Human Resources Manager and Postdoctoral Fellows Contact for Gladstone.

Concerned about these postdocs and this issue, the Institutes formed the Committee on Advancement of Gladstone Women Scientists to evaluate attitudes and practices toward female postdoctoral fellows and to develop a plan to promote women in science.

«We were very encouraged to see that the transplanted cells sprouted long distances in both directions — a key characteristic of V2a interneurons — and that they started to connect with the relevant host neurons,» said co-author Dylan McCreedy, PhD, a postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone.

«With few exceptions, our postdocs receive the exact same benefits as everyone else at Gladstone, which includes employer - paid medical, dental, and vision, and also covers eligible dependents or domestic partners,» said John LeViathan, postdoctoral fellows advisor and human resources manager.

«Introducing brown fat is an exciting new approach to treating obesity and associated metabolic diseases, such as diabetes,» said study first author Baoming Nie, PhD, a former postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone.

«This identified IFI16 as the DNA sensor, which then sends signals to caspase - 1 and triggers pyroptosis,» says Kathryn M. Monroe, PhD, the Science paper's other lead author, who completed the research while a postdoctoral fellow at Gladstone.

«We have bioengineered micro-scale heart tissues with a method that can easily be reproduced, which will enable scientists in stem cell biology and the drug industry to study heart cells in their proper context,» said first author Nathaniel Huebsch, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Conklin lab at Gladstone.

«Instead of taking the skin cells back to the beginning, we took them only part way, creating endoderm - like cells,» added Gladstone and CIRM Postdoctoral Scholar Saiyong Zhu, PhD, one of the paper's lead authors.

Moderator: Jonathan LeViathan, Postdoctoral Fellows Advisor, The J. David Gladstone Institutes Panelists: - Sadis Matalon, Assoc. Dean for Postdoctoral Education, Univ..

Dominik Haddad Postdoctoral Scholar Laboratory of Ken Nakamura Haddad joined Gladstone after earning a PhD in biomedical science from the University of Leuven in Belgium.

PROGRAM Katherine Pollard, PhD Director, Gladstone Institute of Data Science and Biotechnology Jeremy Freeman, PhD Manager, Computational Biology, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Jeremy Linsley, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar, Gladstone Institutes

Gladstone's postdoctoral scholars come from around the world to thrive in a supportive and rich scientific environment.

Postdoctoral fellows are a vital part of scientific research at the Gladstone Institutes.

The Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Affairs (OPGA) works to ensure that Gladstone postdocs receive the best scientific training and career mentoring year - round.

I first heard of Gladstone when I crossed over the pond from London, England, to take up postdoctoral research in cancer biology at the University of California, San Francisco.

«Scientists have tried for decades to treat heart failure by transplanting adult heart cells, but these cells can not reproduce themselves, and so they do not survive in the damaged heart,» explained Yu Zhang, MD, PhD, lead author on the study and a postdoctoral scholar at the Gladstone Institutes.

«Two months post-transplantation, we noticed a boost in human liver protein levels, an indication the transplanted cells were becoming mature,» says Saiyong Zhu, PhD, a Postdoctoral Scholar at Gladstone and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine who was among the study's lead authors.

Dr. Yamanaka, who did his postdoctoral training at Gladstone in the 1990s, also directs the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), and is a principal investigator at the Institute for Integrated Cell - Material Sciences (iCeMS)-- both located at Japan's Kyoto University.

After completing his postdoctoral training at Gladstone, Dr. Yamanaka discovered an innovative technology that transforms ordinary adult skin cells into stem cells that, like embryonic stem cells, can develop into virtually any cell type in the human body.

Anand Pai, a postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone, shares how he feels fortunate to see and hear about Gladstone's fascinating discoveries before they hit the press.

«Transcription factors have to stick together, or else the other one goes and gets into trouble,» says first author Luis Luna - Zurita, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow at Gladstone.

«We are constantly looking for ways to introduce our postdocs to different opportunities,» said Sudha Krishnamurthy, PhD, program director of the Gladstone Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Affairs.

The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health grants R21 AI102782, P50 GM082250, P01 AI090935, P50 GM081879, P30 AI027763 (UCSF - Gladstone Center for AIDS Research), 1DP1036502 (Avant - Garde Award for HIV / AIDS Research), U19 AI0961133 (Martin Delaney CARE Collaboratory); and the A.P. Giannini Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.

He joined the Gladstone Institutes as a postdoctoral fellow in 1993 where his early research into proteins involved in cholesterol metabolism led him to the study of embryonic stem cells and differentiation.

The research was supported by the National Institutes of Health grants R21 AI102782, P30 AI027763 (UCSF - Gladstone Center for AIDS Research), 1DP1036502 (Avant - Garde Award for HIV / AIDS Research), U19 AI0961133 (Martin Delaney CARE Collaboratory), the A.P. Giannini Postdoctoral Research Fellowship and the UCSF / Robert John Sabo Trust Award.

Yu Zhang, a postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone, shares how training at Gladstone has benefitted her both professionally and personally.

The program was established in 2012 by the Gladstone Office of Postdoctoral and Graduate Affairs and the Gladstone Postdoc Advisory Committee.

«Heart failure afflicts many people worldwide, and we still do not have an effective treatment for patients suffering from this disease,» said Tamer Mohamed, PhD, first author on the study and a former postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone.

Jeremy Chang, a postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone, shares how graduate school provided him with valuable opportunities and was one of the greatest eras of his life.

Thomas Packard, a postdoctoral scholar at Gladstone, talks about his life - long passion for science and how Gladstone's reputation as a top place to do a postdoctoral fellowship led him to the Greene laboratory.

«Because the blood cells both accumulate less viral DNA and express less IFI16, there is nothing to be «sensed» and nothing to sense it with,» says first author Isa Munoz - Arias, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher at the Gladstone Institutes.

Before coming to Gladstone in 2014, she was a postdoctoral researcher in the labs of Karl Deisseroth, MD, PhD and John Huguenard, PhD, at Stanford University.

As an independent research organization, Gladstone has the flexibility to provide its graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with a unique training experience and to support and mentor junior faculty as they develop their independent research programs.

Later, she completed postdoctoral training at Yale University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and the Gladstone Institutes.