Sentences with phrase «professor of plant biology»

«A better understanding of the human perception of risk from climate change and the behavioral responses are key to curbing future climate change,» said lead author Brian Beckage, a professor of plant biology and computer science at the University of Vermont.

Also, «water usage and water security are increasingly alarming problems,» especially considering approximately half of the cultivated surface of Earth is affected by drought, said Jocelyn Rose, the project's principal investigator (PI), a professor of plant biology and director of Cornell's Institute of Biotechnology.

«Understanding where FT is located and how it coordinates with other flowering factors is important to breeders; it's useful for breeders for the fine manipulation of flowering times,» said Qingguo Chen, the paper's first author and a research associate in the lab of Robert Turgeon, the paper's senior author and professor of plant biology in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Sheng Yang He, University Distinguished Professor of plant biology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.

«As the first reference sequence of the sunflower genome, it's quite the accomplishment,» said paper co-author John M. Burke, professor of plant biology and member of the UGA Plant Center.

This is James O'Dwyer, assistant professor of plant biology and member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.

«The species concept is difficult for microbes,» said O'Dwyer, an assistant professor of plant biology and member of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.

Joan W. Bennett is a distinguished professor of plant biology and pathology and senior faculty adviser to the Office for the Promotion of Women in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, in New Jersey.

Not exact matches

«Paleontologists have come up with various kill scenarios for mass extinctions, but plant life may not be affected by dying suddenly as much as through interrupting one part of the life cycle, such as reproduction, over a long period of time, causing the population to dwindle and potentially disappear,» said co-author Cindy Looy, a UC Berkeley associate professor of integrative biology.

Because many first - generation graduates come from less affluent families, such socioeconomic differences are common, says Rebecca Lamb, assistant professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State University in Columbus and a first - generation college grad.

Jose E. Garcia - Arraras, a biology professor at the university's biology research center on the Río Piedras campus, said a power plant designed to keep scientific samples refrigerated broke down and the roof of a critical building gave way to flooding, rendering «samples, libraries, cell lines, etc. lost.»

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

Kay Schneitz is an associate professor of plant developmental biology at the Technical University of Munich.

«A potted plant may look tranquil, but there are actually a lot of conversations going on in that pot,» said study co-author Joff Silberg, associate professor of biochemistry and cell biology and of bioengineering at Rice.

«Javier's work with Detlef Weigel was seminal,» says Joanne Chory, a professor of biology at the Salk Institute, «because it connected a microRNA to a developmental process in plants.»

Yanhai Yin, a professor of genetics, development and cell biology and a Plant Sciences Institute Faculty Scholar, said the biological processes that oversee plant growth and drought response often clash with one anoPlant Sciences Institute Faculty Scholar, said the biological processes that oversee plant growth and drought response often clash with one anoplant growth and drought response often clash with one another.

«The pathogen is producing an important compound that the plant already makes, but too much of a good thing ends up not being good for the plant,» said Barbara Kunkel, professor of biology in Arts & Sciences.

«For each carbon dioxide molecule that is incorporated into plants through photosynthesis, plants lose about 200 hundred molecules of water through their stomata,» explains Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology who headed the research effort.

A moist prairie plant, it has dwindled due to fire - suppression and agriculture, said Scot Duncan, a biology professor at Birmingham - Southern College and author of Southern Wonder, a book on Southern ecology.

In a new study on the Pacific Coast, Nyssa Silbiger, former UCI postdoctoral researcher, and Cascade Sorte, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, determined that marine plants and seaweeds decrease the acidity of their surroundings through photosynthesis.

«If people are willing to share their results,» says Springer, a biology professor and director of the Microbial and Plant Genomics Institute, «I use the findings to see which parts of a project they might find easy or difficult.

Joseph Williams, an associate professor at the University of Tennessee, has had a long - standing interest in the reproductive biology of flowering plants, and is particularly interested in the evolution of development of ancient flowering plants.

Singer combined biology DBER research with research on the developmental biology of flowering in plants in her 30 years as a professor at Carleton College before recently becoming vice president for academic affairs and provost at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology.

«Along with previous examples of small RNA exchange between fungi and plants, our results imply that this cross-species gene regulation may be more widespread in other plant - parasite interactions,» said Michael J. Axtell, professor of biology at Penn State and an author of the paper.

«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.

«Everybody expects to hear a disaster story when we say that,» said Daniel Potts, a plant physiological ecologist and associate professor of biology at Buffalo State.

«Understanding the dynamic distribution of ABA in plants in response to environmental stimuli is of particular importance in elucidating the action of this important plant hormone,» says Julian Schroeder, a professor of biology at UC San Diego who headed the research effort.

But he took one plant biology course and discovered that one lab, headed by Gerald Fink, a professor of genetics, was working with Arabidopsis and yeast genetics.

As a professor in the department of plant and microbial biology at the University of California, Berkeley, he works with both, applying insights from one to the study of the other.

«We've created a genetic combination that no one has ever made before,» said plant scientist Gregg Howe, MSU Foundation professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who led the study.

«We make a science - based risk assessment [of a product], and if it's safe we use it and if it's unsafe, we don't,» Stefan Jansson, a professor of plant cell and molecular biology at Umeå University's Plant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last mplant cell and molecular biology at Umeå University's Plant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last mPlant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last month.

«The next step is to create an in silico plant to virtually simulate the amazingly complex interactions among biological scales,» said U. of I. plant biology professor Amy Marshall - Colon, a co-author on the report.

Studies headed by U. of I. plant biology professor Donald Ort aim to make plants» upper leaves lighter, allowing more sunlight to penetrate to the light - starved lower leaves.

Allison Miller, an associate professor in biology at Saint Louis University, is the lead for the NSF project, which also involves researchers from the University of Missouri, Missouri State University, Danforth Plant Center and Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, as well as the Grape Genetics Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Geneva, New York.

«Being a conservation priority plant isn't random: it depends upon your biology, ecology, and location,» said Professor Rich Grenyer of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, the coordinating author of the study.

Research led by Eric Post, a professor of biology at Penn State University, has linked an increasingly earlier plant growing season to the melting of arctic sea ice, a relationship that has consequences for offspring production by caribou in the area.

Eric Post, a Penn State University professor of biology, and Jeffrey Kerby, a Penn State graduate student, have linked the melting of Arctic sea ice with changes in the timing of plant growth on land, which in turn is associated with lower production of calves by caribou in the area.

«It's a case of the whole being greater than the sum of its parts,» said Seth Bordenstein, associate professor of biological sciences at Vanderbilt University, who has contributed to the body of scientific knowledge that is pointing to the conclusion that symbiotic microbes play a fundamental role in virtually all aspects of plant and animal biology, including the origin of new species.

The team of Luis Lopez - Molina, professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioPlant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioplant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioplant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioplant biology.

Plant natural products from synthetic biology Dr. Vincent Martin is a Professor of Biology at Concordia University where he currently holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Microbial Engineering and Synthetic Biology.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]-- Mark Johnson, associate professor of biology, has joined a consortium of seven other researchers in four European countries to develop the fullest understanding yet of how fertilization evolved in flowering plants.

At the University of Arizona, where he was a Regents Professor and held the Porterfield Chair in Plant Sciences, he taught molecular and cellular biology for 15 years.

Led by David Tilman, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota, the research shows that «mixtures of native perennial grasses and other flowering plants provide more usable energy per acre than corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel and are far better for the environment,» according to a release from the University of Minnesota.