Sentences with phrase «as model organisms»

Ants as Model Organisms to Study Species Coexistence.

Tetrahymena species used as model organisms in biomedical research are T. thermophila and T. pyriformis.

These observations have highlighted their value as model organisms to study the etiology of human neurodevelopmental pathologies.

In particular we are interested to unravel the mechanisms that ensure the maintenance of the apical membrane when exposed to physical stress, e. g. during morphogenesis of epithelial tissues, or when exposed to light stress in photoreceptor cells, using Drosophila and zebrafish as model organisms.

A few species are studied as model organisms that can be used to gain knowledge of basic processes such as genetics, physiology, biochemistry, and molecular biology with results that are applicable to many organisms (Taylor et al., 1993).

-- 90 percent of genes associated with disease are identical in the human and the mouse, supporting the use of mice as model organisms.

Protein misfolding and aggregation had been identified as a major factor in mad cow disease, and research using yeasts as model organisms played a large role in those findings.

Dennis has a PhD in genetics / developmental biology from the University of British Columbia and a special interest in studying pattern formation and cell - cell communication during tissue development using fruit flies as a model organism.

While tomatoes have been regularly used as a model organism to study the effect of climate in fruit ripening, its commercial history is a chequered one.

In collaboration with Synchrotron Oxford, the University of East Anglia and the University of California, the researchers, using a commonly - found member of human gut microbiota called Ruminococcus gnavus as a model organism identified carbohydrate binding modules with the ability to bind to mucus.

She did her master's degree research project at the Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), also in Warsaw, looking at the effect of genetic mutations on the function of an enzyme involved in the biosynthesis of heme, using Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

The research team, led by Bosch, use the freshwater polyp Hydra as the model organism to elucidate the fundamental principles of nervous system structure and function.

Using the freshwater polyp Hydra as a model organism, the Kiel - based researchers and their international colleagues investigated how the simple nervous system of these animals interacts with the microbiome.

As a proof - of - concept, the researchers cloned more than 3,000 DNA fragments from E. coli bacteria, commonly used as a model organism with a catalogued genome sequence available.

He presented his idea one day to a roomful of about 30 colleagues at Yale's «Worm Meeting,» the weekly gathering for researchers studying C. elegans, the lowly nematode widely used as a model organism in developmental biology.

Starting with a model organismThe team studied the bacterium Escherichia coli as a model organism, comparing how 28 RNA sequences behaved in their model and in the microbe.

He also hopes the bats can serve as a model organism to test the hormonal and neurochemical underpinnings of different characteristics of friendship.

«Using yeast as a model organism, we studied the Tup1 protein, a negative regulator of gene expression,» says Biology Professor Emanuel Rosonina, adding, «This protein binds to some genes and blocks their expression, helping to ensure genes that shouldn't be turned on remain inactive.»

For this reason, the zebrafish is now used as a model organism by scientists around the globe.

Curran and his colleagues tweaked the amount of Maf1 in C. elegans, a transparent worm often used as a model organism by biologists.

This unicellular fungus is often used as a model organism, because it works as a mammalian cell, though it is easier to handle.

«Like many labs, we use C. elegans — a tiny roundworm — as a model organism to reveal important lessons about aging and autophagy,» explains Hansen.

But geneticists chose Arabidopsis as their model organism based on its relative genetic simplicity, as well as its short generation time.

The bacterium was Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a prototypical multidrug resistant pathogen that serves as a model organism in the Buckling lab.

His lab is continuing to use the zebrafish as a model organism, but Junker also sees great potential in applying the technique to human organoids.

A research group from the University of Seville has revealed the role that the protein Rrm3 plays in the repair of breaks that occur during the replication of DNA, by using the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism.

Drosophila serves as a model organism that helps geneticists to decode the molecular fundamentals of cellular biology and unravel mechanisms that are conserved in human beings and other vertebrates.

Using the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly as a model organism, the team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann at Heidelberg University's Centre for Organismal Studies was able to show how a special developmental gene from the Hox family influences germline stem cells.

The researchers studied this adaptive bacterial life cycle using Bacillus subtilis as a model organism.

Scientists use it as a model organism for studying cellular signals, disease, and the movement of cells in response to a chemical stimulus (chemotaxis).

Given the rapid succession of generations in yeast, we can use it as a model organism — and study the mechanisms of aneuploidy in much greater detail to find out whether we can derive from it new approaches for diagnosing and treating human diseases.»

The zebrafish is used as a model organism for research into the embryonic development of vertebrates.

They chose a mouse as a model organism.

This approach opens new avenues for research into memory using zebrafish as model organism,» concludes Dr. Okamoto.

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 biology.

This slime mould is a protist that we are developing as a model organism to understand the evolution of decision - making.

The project takes advantage of yeast as a model organism and several reconstitution approaches to understand the particular function of the involved proteins.

Our group is helping Rafael Yuste's lab to pioneer the use of Hydra vulgaris, a small, freshwater polyp that attaches itself to underwater surfaces in lakes, rivers and ponds and uses its tentacles to capture prey, as a model organism for studying neural function.

Zebrafish have only been used as a model organism by a lot of labs in the last 15 years or so.

This year the organizers overtly recognized the history of our biomedical research niche in which C. elegans nematodes are used as a model organism (see our SAGE blog on how C. elegans models are used to study aging).

Using Drosophila as a model organism, his aims are to identify the gene regulatory networks that modulate neural stem cell properties during the course of development.

Like the mouse and the fruit fly, Neurospora, a fungus, has served as a model organism in research.

Sten Grillner has elucidated basic principles of neural circuit organization and function that control vertebrate locomotion using lamprey as a model organism.

We address these questions by combining genetics with live imaging, quantitative image analysis and biophysical approaches using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model organism.

The fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster, is widely used as a model organism for biological and biomedical research and so such puppetry should allow the species to be studied more easily than ever before.

The ninespine stickleback as a model organism in arctic ecotoxicology.

The researchers first discovered ascarosides as a signaling molecule in C. elegans, a nematode used as a model organism to study cell, developmental and nervous system biology, as well as human aging and diabetes.

As the model organism Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (modENCODE) project draws to completion this year, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) is hosting a special symposium to celebrate the project's accomplishments.

Our group focuses on this question and uses the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis as a model organism to study how such morphological plasticity mechanisms are encoded at the molecular and cellular level.

While 140 million pieces might sound like a lot, Arabidopsis has the smallest genome of any flowering plant, which is the main reason it was selected as a model organism for genome sequencing.