Sentences with phrase «university microbiology professor»

Wichita State University microbiology professor Mark Schneegurt and ornithology professor Chris Rogers have discovered that one of North America's most common migratory birds — the Dark - eyed Junco — carries on its feathers a remarkable diversity of plant bacteria, the greatest ever found on wild birds.

Not exact matches

«Thirty billion Lactobacillus sounds good, but after going through the stomach acid, only about 43 of them survive,» Ian Orme, a distinguished professor of microbiology and pathology at Colorado State University, told Business Insider.

Dickson Despommier, microbiologist and ecologist, and emeritus professor of microbiology and public health at Columbia University, is known as the «father» of vertical farming.

-- Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.

For nearly three years, Weber worked alongside two scientists from Oregon State University to develop MicroGARD ® 100: James Ayres, PhD, now retired professor of pharmacy; and William Sandine, PhD, retired professor of microbiology.

Sense of Smell «There are only five known tastes,» says Hiroaki Matsunami, a professor studying the genetics of olfaction in the microbiology department at Duke University.

«These infections can be just one plane ride away, which is why we have to continue to vaccinate,» explains Michael Pichichero, MD, professor of microbiology / immunology, pediatrics, and medicine at the University of Rochester, in New York State.

He had been a professor of molecular biology and microbiology at James Madison University for 10 years.

«While biotechnology is being pursued primarily for beneficial and legitimate purposes, there are potential uses that are detrimental to humans, other species, and ecosystems,» said Michael Imperiale, professor and associate chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the committee that wrote the interim report.

After five years of deep genomic analysis, Garry Nolan, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford, and Atul Butte, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California - San Francisco, have pinpointed the mutations responsible for the anomalous specimen.

«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of disease,» said the study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.

«We see a complete deletion of the infectious version of the malaria parasite,» said Anthony James, a microbiology and molecular genetics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the lead author of the report.

The advantage of Novavax's approach is that a vaccine can be made rapidly and in high volume, compared with the egg - based approach that's used today, says Ted Ross, an associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research (CVR).

The epidemic, which now has a firm hold on cities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, is more challenging to stamp out than prior outbreaks that raged in isolated areas and burned themselves out, says Daniel Lucey, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center, who recently returned from caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.

Dr. Karsten Hueffer, lead author and a professor of veterinary microbiology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said he hopes the findings will help scientists better understand and treat the infectious viral disease.

For instance, Curtis Suttle, professor of earth and ocean sciences, microbiology and immunology, and botany, plus associate dean of science at The University of British Columbia, says, «Find an M.S. program that is really geared toward a profession.»

Scientists have a promising new approach to combating deadly human viruses thanks to an educated hunch by University of California, Riverside microbiology professor Shou - Wei Ding, and his 20 years of research on plants, fruit flies, nematodes and mice to show the truth in his theory.

The advantage of these exchanges for India's economy are obvious, but — says C.S. Prakash, a professor of microbiology at Tuskegee University in Alabama and an Indian expatriate who travels often between the two countries — the advantages work both ways.

Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University and co-first author of the study, says: «In pancreatic cancer, the fact that it may take years for a primary tumor to develop, while metastases can progress very quickly, is somewhat of an enigma.

A team of scientists led by Ronald Harty, a professor of pathobiology and microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, has identified a mechanism that appears to represent one way that host cells have evolved to outsmart infection by Ebola and other viruses.

«Our study suggests that respiratory bacterial infections during childhood establish a novel type of antibacterial immunity,» explained corresponding author Joseph Mizgerd, ScD, professor of medicine, microbiology and biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine.

«Mentoring is really important to me,» says Gail Bishop, professor of microbiology and internal medicine at The University of Iowa.

One key issue to be resolved is whether the federal government will retain responsibility for restoring the lakes to their natural condition once ELA's doors are permanently closed, says Carol Kelly, a retired professor of microbiology at the University of Manitoba.

Thus, by decreasing how well the virus can make one protein we have an effect on the entire replication cycle,» explained corresponding author John Connor, PhD, associate professor of microbiology at Boston University School of Medicine.

Growing resistance to malaria drugs in Southeast Asia is caused by a single mutated gene inside the disease - causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite, according to a study led by David Fidock, PhD, professor of microbiology & immunology and of medical sciences (in medicine) at Columbia University Medical Center.

The rise in misconduct is a troubling sign of problems in the high - pressure scientific enterprise in the United States and some other countries, according to Dr. Ferric Fang, a University of Washington professor of microbiology and laboratory medicine.

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said that the Princeton research shows that recently proposed early - warning signals for the desertification of arid ecosystems can be too simple, and possibly result in projections of future climate change that do not account for the complexity of nature.

Boon and first author Graham Williams, PhD, now a postdoctoral researcher at Duke University, with the help of Sebla Kutluay, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology, found that parts of the virus's RNA genome fold like origami into specific 3 - D shapes and that these shapes are necessary for the virus to multiply.

«Recombination at the centromere doesn't have to happen frequently, it just has to happen often enough that it punctuates the evolution of the organism,» said Joseph Heitman, MD, PhD, senior study author and professor and chair of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine.

As a clinical professor of microbiology at the University of Western Australia, he is working on flu vaccines delivered by brews of weakened Helicobacter.

«This has been an absolutely fascinating voyage of discovery,» said Dr. Greene, who is also a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated.

These findings suggest that adding coconut oil to a patient's existing diet might control the growth of C. albicans in the gut, and possibly decrease the risk of fungal infections caused by C. albicans,» said Kumamoto, Ph.D., a professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and member of the molecular microbiology and genetics program faculties at the Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences.

«This mechanism gives the organism more flexibility,» said Joseph Heitman, M.D., Ph.D., senior study author and professor and chair of molecular genetics and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine.

«These results indicate that cell fusion generates chromosomal instability,» explained lead investigator Jeffrey L. Platt, M.D., professor of surgery and microbiology and immunology, Departments of Microbiology and Immunology and Surgery, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).

«We have always assumed we will have another antibiotic saviour up our sleeves,» said Alexander Tomasz, professor of microbiology at Rockefeller University in New York, when speaking at the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in February.

The period when tadpoles are turning into frogs — called metamorphosis — is a «very vulnerable time,» said Louise Rollins - Smith, an associate professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University who did not participate in the study.

Karen Ottemann, an associate professor of microbiology and environmental toxicology at University of California, Santa Cruz stresses, «We need diversity in science.

«We found that the same machinery that makes these tumors so aggressive also makes them vulnerable to nutrient deprivation,» said senior study author Jen - Tsan Ashley Chi, Ph.D., associate professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Duke University School of Medicine.

Even simple differences such as how big they are at birth correlate with differences in how they respond to drug treatment,» said senior study author Bree Aldridge, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and adjunct assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Tufts University School of Engineering.

Additional authors of the study are Owen T. Bennion, B.S., research assistant in Aldridge's lab, Murat Cokol, Ph.D., associate professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, and visiting scientist at Tufts University School of Medicine, Shumin Tan, Ph.D., assistant professor of molecular biology and microbiology at Tufts University School of Medicine and member of the Molecular Microbiology program faculty at the Sackler School, and Anh Hoang, Ph.D., of Massachusetts General Hospital.

After more than 10 years as a microbiology professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center, Dolores Furtado learned that she was being underpaid.

Dr. Uwe Sauer is Professor of Systems Biology at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland with a Ph.D. in microbiology from the University of Göttingen, Germany.

Senior author Daniel Goldberg, MD, PhD, professor of medicine and of molecular microbiology and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator at Washington University, studies how malaria affects red blood cells.

It's «very unusual for someone without a pre-existing condition to lose their foot from MRSA,» said Dr. Bo Shopsin, an assistant professor of microbiology at New York University School of Medicine.

«The study was performed using a human norovirus surrogate called murine norovirus (NoV), and a hepatitis A (HAV) virus along with advanced quantitative microbial risk assessment tools,» explained Pillai, professor of microbiology and director of the National Center for Electron Beam Research at Texas A&M University.

Anti-flu peptides could become handy when vaccines are unavailable, in the case of a new pandemic strain, or when circulating strains become resistant to current drugs, says senior author Joshy Jacob, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Emory Vaccine Center and Emory University School of Medicine.

«We have proof of principle that MurJ is actually a valid target because we showed that if we stop it from working, the cells will die within 10 minutes — very quickly,» said Natividad Ruiz, assistant professor of microbiology at The Ohio State University and a co-lead author of the study.

«Therapies for metastatic prostate cancer are urgently needed,» said Dr. Owen Witte, founding director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA, university professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and a senior author of the paper.

Dr. Greene is also a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), with which Gladstone is affiliated.

He is also a professor in the department of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania.