Sentences with phrase «lab plant biologists»

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A second scientist, Marcus Heisler, an Australian plant developmental biologist, has 5 years of funding to support an independent lab at EMBL in Heidelberg, Germany.

The next hurdle becomes how to get these different simulations to talk to one another, says Amy Marshall - Colón, a plant systems biologist at Illinois who leads a lab group independent of Long's and Zhu's.

But despite these two tracks being completely separate, two recent rounds of interviews for clients on either side of this divide helped me recognize what a successful Indian plant breeder has in common with an equally first - rate American cell biologist: The passion they have for what they do still drives their career success a decade after leaving the academic lab.

But ecologists, in particular, express misgivings about transgenic crops because from their perspective, molecular biologists have a narrow view of how plants work outside the lab.

For plant molecular biologist Esther van der Knaap, a flattened greenhouse means a setback of many weeks, or perhaps even a year, for her lab's research on the genetics of fruit shape and development in tomatoes.

«It's pretty photogenic,» said corresponding author Cheryl Kerfeld, a Berkeley Lab structural biologist with a joint appointment as a professor at the MSU - DOE Plant Research Laboratory.

«Plants have, for a long time, provided us with valuable products like food, biofuels, construction materials and the oxygen we breathe,» notes plant biologist turned chemical engineer Juan Pablo Giraldo, a postdoctoral fellow in the research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who did the work.

Hannah De Jong an undergraduate in the Georg Jander lab, received a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship from the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB).

PhD students Emily Larson (in Mary Tierney's lab) and Chang Zhang (in Jeanne Harris's lab) have both been selected from among the students submitting abstracts to the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) to present their work in an oral presentation at the ASPB Annual Meeting in Minneapolis August 6 - 10, 2011.