Sentences with phrase «lab by graduate students»

Technical work on the capsule has been done in the STORM Lab by graduate students Marco Beccani and Christian Di Natali.

Not exact matches

when 25 % of the work in the lab is done by undergrads who's main priority is partying / getting laid on the weekends, 25 % of it done by graduate students who hate their life, and 50 % done by postdocs who are barely scraping by, we can't really expect much: -LRB-.

Researchers sequenced nuclear DNA from three molars from layer 11 and a child's molar from a deeper layer, 22, according to a talk by graduate student Viviane Slon, who works in the lab of paleogeneticist Svante Pääbo at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Then, by the time her third child was born, the lab had its own momentum and the senior graduate students could help provide continuity in her absence.

The fundamental unity of science training and science scholarship does not relieve research scientists — their labs teeming with graduate students and postdocs supported by stipends paid from research grants — or their host institutions, or the funding organizations, of the responsibility to take training the next generation of scientists very, very seriously.

«This work was driven by talented scientists in the lab: graduate students Lian He and Peng Tan and postdoctoral research fellow Guolin Ma, Ph.D.,» Zhou said, «who fearlessly undertook this daunting project and overcame all the challenging obstacles to make this technique into reality.»

Many graduate students in the lab, like Dagdeviren, are driven by personal experiences, says Rogers.

The first «evolution machine» was built by Harris Wang, a graduate student in Church's lab.

His lab began by working with Matt Bennett, assistant professor of biochemistry and cell biology at Rice, to make use of two tailored forms of E. coli bacteria created by Rice graduate student Chen Ye.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

The research was conducted in the lab of Dr. Ravid Straussman of the Weizmann Institute of Science's Molecular Cell Biology Department, led by his graduate student Leore Geller and conducted in collaboration with Dr. Todd Golub and Dr. Michal Barzily - Rokini of the Broad Institute of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

A graduate student and a Twitter software engineer team up to write an article showing that on average, elite labs run by men are not women - friendly

The best way to gauge if a mentor is a good match is by talking to the graduate students currently in the lab, Hernandez added.

The researchers experimented with iridium oxide samples synthesized by Boston College (BC) graduate student Tom Hogan, working in the lab of former BC and current University of California, Santa Barbara, Assistant Professor Stephen Wilson.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

In the current issue of Cell, Jing Liu, a graduate student researcher in the Chien lab at UMass Amherst working with the Laub lab at MIT, show that in the bacteria Caulobacter, a particular enzyme, Lon, can help defend against the effects of stress by cutting up and destroying small amounts of misfolded proteins.

Postdocs do the bulk of the hands - on teaching that goes on in labs — by training graduate students, medical students, and technicians, for example.

Q: I am a graduate student at a prestigious university, working in a great lab headed by a really cute assistant professor who is unmarried as far as I know.

Studies of individual neurons in dishes of cultured neurons and in brain slices by co-first author Robert E. Stanley, a graduate student in the lab, revealed that neurons in the mutant mice had decreased numbers of dendritic spines, an important part of the synapses that neurons use to communicate with one another.

«The electron in WSe2 that is initially energized by the photon has an energy that is low with respect to WSe2,» said Fatemeh Barati, a graduate student in Gabor's Quantum Materials Optoelectronics lab and the co-first author of the research paper.

«We found that adding unsaturated fatty acids could «melt» the membrane islands frozen by saturated fatty acids,» said First Author Yihui Shen, a graduate student in Min's lab.

Tour It: Learn about the lab's Nobel legacy, historic architecture and current research in cancer and neuroscience on a 90 - minute tour led by graduate students and postdoctoral candidates.

The idea for the new study came during a lab retreat by graduate students at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Niyogi joined Fink's lab and found himself in an unusual situation: As a graduate student in a group of about 20, he was surrounded by postdocs, because he was focused on Arabidopsis and all the other graduate students worked with yeast.

Tracy Langkilde, an associate professor of biology at Penn State University, and Lindsey Swierk, a graduate student in Langkilde's lab, tackle this question by examining the mating behavior and blue - color patterns of fence lizards in Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi.

The research was led by Dennis E. Discher, the Robert D. Bent Professor in Penn Engineering's Department of Chemical and Bimolecular Engineering, and Cory Alvey, a graduate student in his lab from the Department of Pharmacology in Penn Medicine.

In the first 6 months I had only one graduate student, the lab was «under construction,» and my day was often interrupted by taking care of the children.

Rainfall oxygen isotopic ratios are good indicators of the amount of rainfall occurring throughout the region, as determined by a modern - day calibration study recently published by another graduate student in Cobb's lab.

To determine how ESRP1 mutations cause hearing loss Alex Rohacek, a graduate student in the Epstein lab, evaluated embryos in which Esrp1 was deleted in a mouse model developed by the Carstens lab.

In January 2010, an explosion in a chemistry lab at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock seriously injured a graduate student and touched off an investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board that led to a groundbreaking report on laboratory safety.

The fabrication process that the Brown and NREL researchers reported in this latest paper builds on a previously reported method developed by Yuanyuan Zhou, a graduate student in Padture's lab.

Led by first author Teniel Ramikie, a graduate student in Patel's lab, the researchers also showed for the first time how nerve cells in this part of the brain make and release their own natural «endocannabinoids.»

«We can attach different drugs to the nanoparticles, and by changing the chemistry of the bond linking the drug to the nanoparticle, we can alter the release rate of the drug to be faster or slower,» says Andrew Clark, a graduate student in Davis's lab and the study's first author.

Analyses by Martin Johnsson, a former graduate student in Dominic Wright's lab (Linköping University, Sweden) found that genes controlling chicken reproduction and behavior are evolving quickly in the Kauai population4.

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In the study, members of the Gottesfeld lab, led by first author Sherman Ku, a graduate student in the Scripps Research Kellogg School of Science and Technology, created a cellular model that did reproduce this feature.

During that summer, he joined the lab of Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, where he was mentored by Yvanka de Soysa, a graduate student in Srivastava's lab.

Spy School includes a vivid story of «a Chinese graduate student [who] poaches Pentagon - funded invisibility research from a Duke University lab — and then is staked [funded] by the Chinese government to launch a competing venture in Shenzhen that makes him a billionaire».

«This study provides strong evidence for a mechanism by which the stop pathway overcomes the go pathway in Parkinson's disease,» says first author Philip Parker, PhD, a former graduate student in Dr. Kreitzer's lab at the Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

The study's first author, Moonhee Kim, a graduate student in Weiss» lab, managed to isolate and control the reactions of pairs of molecules by creating nanostructures tailored to allow only two molecules fit in place.

This past October, led by postdoc Nicholas McGranahan and graduate student Rachel Rosenthal, Swanton's lab found one way that lung cancers evolve to escape detection by the immune system.

It was a full day of events, attended by 165 participants including faculty, lab members, postdocs, current and incoming graduate students, as well as administrative staff from the Division and the Center.

The GRID Lab encourages collaboration across departments on its projects, as evidenced by the work of graduate students from neuroscience, bioengineering and computer science on this project and others.

Using an integrative approach that combined electron microscopy on the Env trimer complex with PGT151 (led by the Ward lab) with the structure of the PGT151 Fab by x-ray crystallography (led by the Wilson lab), the scientists were able to visualize the location of the PGT151 - series binding site on the Env trimer — which includes a spot on one gp41 protein with two associated sugars (glycans), a patch on the gp120 protein and even a piece of the adjacent gp41 within the trimer structure — «a very complex epitope,» said Claudia Blattner, a research associate in the Wilson laboratory at TSRI and member of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center who, along with graduate student Jeong Hyun Lee, was a first author of the second paper.

Those who attended were presented with personalized white lab coats by Kathleen Gould, Ph.D., associate dean for Biomedical Sciences and director of Graduate Student Support, as Roger Chalkley, D.Phil., senior associate dean in the Office of Biomedical Research Education and Training (BRET) read their names.

The team was organized by Dr. Xu Chen (postdoctoral scholar, Gan lab), Dr. Biljana Djukic (staff research scientist, Mucke lab), Dr. Mark Evans (postdoctoral scholar, Mucke lab), Yaqiao Li (research associate, Gan lab), Ramsey Najm (graduate student, Huang lab), Dr. Maria Telpoukhovskaia (postdoctoral scholar, Gan lab), Dr. Tara Tracy (postdoctoral scholar, Gan lab), and Dr. Lihong Zhan (postdoctoral scholar, Gan lab).

His choices widened when he looked at the work of his graduate school mentor, who had made important contributions to society by founding a Cord Blood Bank, and of a professor at a local 2 - year college, who advanced student training in scientific research by involving them in the lab production of monoclonal antibodies.

Tübingen, Deutschland About Blog The Neuromag is a science - focused magazine organized by graduate students in Tübingen, Germany who spend their limited free time outside of the lab working on this challenging project.

Muting the Mozart Effect Harvard Gazette, 12/11/13 «Though it has been embraced by everyone from advocates for arts education to parents hoping to encourage their kids to stick with piano lessons, a pair of studies conducted by Samuel Mehr, a Harvard Graduate School of Education doctoral student working in the lab of Elizabeth Spelke, the Marshall L. Berkman Professor of Psychology, found that music training had no effect on the cognitive abilities of young children.»

We achieved the first two conditions by choosing two reading specialists to lead the lab and by hiring five full - time teachers (plus two graduate students over the summer) to serve 35 reluctant readers.