Sentences with phrase «morgridge postdoctoral research associate»

VISUALS: Shedd Aquarium Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Andy Kough has been working alongside partners to survey different habitats around The Bahamas for queen conch.

A number of possibilities presented themselves as a result of this strategy, and in January 2003, based on a recommendation from a professor and good friend at Harvard, I accepted a position as postdoctoral research associate at the University of Toronto's Joint Centre for Bioethics.

«It's also known as witchweed because of the way it infects the host plant,» explains Hamilton, 30, a postdoctoral research associate with Rothamsted Research, the United Kingdom's largest agricultural research institution.

The researchers, including first author Matheus Victor, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate, set out to generate neurons that would mimic those of adult patients in order to model the onset and progression of Huntington's disease.

This new development paves the way for a new field of dynamical study in the position dependence of atomic vibration in small particles, and is also likely to benefit the catalytical study of particles.Richard Aveyard, Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Physics at York, said: «Our work highlights the valuable contribution that computational simulations can have in the field of electron microscopy: the more details we can put into our simulations, the more details we can extract from experiments.»

This is the kind of speed performance a Braille user would expect, says Peichun Yang, a postdoctoral research associate in N.C. State's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering who is also working on the project.

Hanan, a senior scientist at the Geospatial Sciences Center of Excellence, and colleagues postdoctoral research associate Armel Kaptué and assistant research professor Lara Prihodko examined satellite images from 1983 to 2012 to evaluate the vegetation in 260 watersheds in four regions of Senegal, Mali and Niger.

David Johnson, a postdoctoral research associate with Rice's Religion and Public Life Program and the lead author of «Conservative Protestantism and Anti-Evolution Curricular Challenges Across States,» studied the relationship between religious characteristics of states and anti-evolution bills passing through state education committees across the country.

«We looked at the underlying genetics to understand why certain abilities to survive in the wild evolved in cats and other carnivores,» said Michael Montague, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral research associate at The Genome Institute.

The citizen scientists were indispensable for this research project, says Karine Prince, who is a postdoctoral research associate at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and is the lead author of the new report.

Jim Monti (right) a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Illinois psychology professor Neal Cohen (left), developed a cognitive task that helps differentiate older adults with very early Alzheimer's disease from those experiencing normal aging.

Now, Sharpee and Ryan Rowekamp, a postdoctoral research associate in Sharpee's group, have developed a statistical method that takes these complex responses and describes them in interpretable ways, which could be used to help decode vision for computer - simulated vision.

«Ideally, the architecture of the scaffold should mimic that of the native tissue to be repaired,» says Wei Shen, a postdoctoral research associate also in the department.

Previous studies have shown that a part of the brain called the hippocampus is important to relational memory — the «ability to bind together various items of an event,» said Jim Monti, a University of Illinois postdoctoral research associate who led the work with psychology professor Neal Cohen, who is affiliated with the Beckman Institute at Illinois.

«The planet has various processes that can keep carbon dioxide levels in check,» said first author Daniel Stolper, a postdoctoral research associate in Princeton's Department of Geosciences.

«Both the mosquitos that transmit Zika and the virus itself are climate - sensitive,» said co-author Ángel Muñoz, a postdoctoral research associate in atmospheric and oceanic science at Princeton University, in an email.

Joining Ale on the publication were lead author Pradip Adhikari, Ale's former postdoctoral student now at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma; Nina Omani, postdoctoral research associate, and Dr. Paul DeLaune, environmental soil scientist, both with AgriLife Research at Vernon; and collaborators from the Arid Land Agricultural Research Center in Maricopa, Arizona; Cotton Incorporated in Cary, North Carolina; and the University of Florida in Gainesville.

This image shows (from left) Noah Roy, Ph.D., a postdoctoral research associate in Dr. Zakharenko's lab, and first author Jay Blundon, Ph.D., an associate scientist in Dr. Zakharenko's lab.

The UIC researchers, including graduate student Tanja Florin and postdoctoral research associate Malgorzata Dobosz - Bartoszek, also found that when bound to the ribosome, the antibiotic disrupts its ability to interpret and translate genetic code.

«Given that 50 percent of the world's population currently lives in cities, and that percentage is projected to increase to 70 percent by year 2050, there is a pressing need to understand how cities and landscapes are affected by heat waves,» said Lei Zhao, a postdoctoral research associate at Princeton's Program in Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP), which is based at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Lin and former postdoctoral research associate Xinchang Pang say the precursor materials applicable to the technique are virtually limitless.

«Our paper is a blueprint of how the cartilage - producing cell, called a chondrocyte, is made and maintained by Sox9,» said He, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Andy McMahon, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.

Initial research of the acoustic data and development of the migration model was conducted at Princeton with K. Allison Smith (published as K.A.S. Mislan), a postdoctoral research associate in the Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, and Charles Stock, a researcher with the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Wilaiwan Chanmanee, postdoctoral research associate in mechanical and aerospace engineering, and Mohammad Fakrul Islam, graduate research assistant and Ph.D. candidate in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UTA, also participated in the project.

While the consequences for losing colonies are stark — loss of territory or colony death — Rudolph and UF postdoctoral research associate Jay McEntee wanted to understand the costs to the winners.

Postdoctoral Research Associate Chris Arnold, Ph.D., his advisor Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D., and their collaborators find that ailing flatworms experience a dramatic expansion of pathogenic Proteobacteria that closely mirrors changes associated with human ailments.

Although most of the lab members viewed this development with frustration, Chris Arnold, Ph.D., a new postdoctoral research associate at the time, took a different perspective.

«Whether it's sports commentators or stock analysts who are talking, momentum is routinely assumed to be important on a day - to - day basis,» said Kevin M. Kniffin, a postdoctoral research associate at Cornell's Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.

The Institutional Postdoctoral Research Associate program at the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences (COAS) of Oregon State University, Corvallis, now entering its second year, awards a couple of highly competitive positions each year.

The paper was authored by postdoctoral research associate Thai Hoang; doctoral students Jonghoon Ahn and Jaehoon Bang; and Li.

«Interestingly, the effect of precipitation variability was amplified over the six years the experiment lasted and we still don't know its end point,» said Laureano Gherardi, a School of Life Sciences postdoctoral research associate and co-author of the paper.

«I was extremely happy to use the convection modeling techniques I developed during my recent PhD work at Washington University, and to apply them to this amazing place on Pluto,» said Teresa Wong, a postdoctoral research associate at Washington University and a co-author on the study.

«We fully expect high - performance computers to be of critical help in our next simulations involving larger scale and more complex structures,» said Alex Song, a Stanford postdoctoral research associate, who carried out the electromagnetic simulations of these fiber structures.

«We're interested in examining how we take the kind of continuous environment that we all live in and break it into pieces that we can understand and remember,» says Chris Baldassano (@ChrisBaldassano), a postdoctoral research associate in the Princeton Neuroscience Institute and the study's first author.

Other Kansas State University researchers include Harold Trick, professor of plant pathology; Andres Salcedo, doctoral candidate in genetics from Mexico; and Cyrille Saintenac, a postdoctoral research associate currently working at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France.

In this study, which was also led by postdoctoral research associate Ogun Adebali, PhD, the researchers focused largely on Mfd, a protein known from prior work by Sancar and Selby to have a special — and mechanistically unusual — role in excision repair in bacteria.

«Using satellite - based remote - sensing equipment can allow scientists, and therefore policymakers, to determine with accuracy whether carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide, and nitrogen oxides detected in the vicinity are truly from the plant, or from other sources,» said Rodica Lindenmaier, postdoctoral research associate and first author of the paper.

Jaimin Patel, a postdoctoral research associate for Zhang, said they put one set of plants on a bench in the dark for 12 hours, starting at 8 p.m. each day.

«If the Chinese government is willing to expand the scope of the program, restoring native forests is, without doubt, the best approach for biodiversity,» said lead author Fangyuan Hua, a postdoctoral research associate in the Program in Science, Technology and Environmental Policy in Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School.

«In context of climate change, you see increases of both insect outbreaks and fires, which has sparked concerns about their interactions,» said Garrett Meigs, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Vermont and lead author of the study.

The new study redefines what it means to be a topological material, according to Su - Yang Xu, a graduate student in Hasan's lab and co-first author of the May 7 paper with postdoctoral research associate Madhab Neupane at Princeton and Raman Sankar of National Taiwan University.

Postdoctoral research associate Monojit Bag (left) and graduate student Tim Gehan (right) synthesize polymer nanoparticles for use in organic - based solar cells being made at the UMass Amherst - based energy center.

«Recognizing MMP - 20's function in biomineralization is one of the first steps to learning how dental enamel forms in nature,» said Qichao Ruan, lead author of the hydrogel study and a postdoctoral research associate in the Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology at USC.

This study, led by Garret D. Stuber, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and cell biology & physiology, and Jenna A. McHenry, PhD, a postdoctoral research associate in Stuber's lab, identified a hormone - sensitive circuit in the brain that controls social motivation in female mice.

The paper was authored by Xu; Purdue research scientist Ireneusz Miotkowski, who created the high - quality materials; Princeton postdoctoral research associate Chang Liu; Purdue postdoctoral research associate Jifa Tian; UT Austin graduate student Hyoungdo Nam; Princeton graduate student Nasser Alidoust; Purdue graduate student Jiuning Hu; Chih - Kang Shih, Jane and Roland Blumberg Professor at UT Austin; M. Zahid Hasan, a Princeton professor of physics; and Chen.

First author Baoshan Xu, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research associate in the Gerton Lab now starting his own lab at Sun Yat - sen University in China, worked with Hua Li, Ph.D., to use computational methods to count the number of copies of ribosomal DNA in normal and cancer cells of 162 patients from the eight projects.

«People usually think of it as negligible, but for us it is not,» says lead study author James Chin - wen Chou, a postdoctoral research associate at NIST.

When co-author Zhaoming Zhu, Gauthier's postdoctoral research associate, encoded information onto one of these beams, the data could be imprinted on these newly created phonons and retained for 12 billionths of a second, long enough to be transferred back to light again by shining a third laser through the fiber.

By applying an innovative theoretical analysis to observations from a first - of - its - kind experimental setup, LANP graduate student Bob Zheng and postdoctoral research associate Alejandro Manjavacas created a methodology that solar engineers can use to determine the electricity - producing potential for any arrangement of metallic nanoparticles.

«We weren't sure why it was there, but it was unique enough that we thought it should show up in observations, too, if it was actually real,» said Ross, now a postdoctoral research associate, Princeton University.