Sentences with phrase «biology at»

«Our algorithm is a small step,» says Ilya Nemenman, lead author of the study and a professor of physics and biology at Emory University.

Lead author Aaron Allen was a PhD student in cell & systems biology at U of T when the work was done, and he was assisted by Sokolowski, fellow EEB student Ina Anreiter, and Oxford University collaborator Megan Neville, who taught Allen the technique.

So Gordon, a research associate in the department of anatomy and cell biology at Tufts University School of Medicine, is taking a different tack.

«The turtles are vertebrates, sothey're reasonably closely related to us,» says Steven Austad, professor of biology at the University of Idaho.

Scientists at the University of Toronto have recorded atomic motions in real time, offering a glimpse into the very essence of chemistry and biology at the atomic level.

«The exciting part of this work is not just that we made hydrogels, but that we're now equipped with this powerful technique that lets us ask fundamental — and very challenging — questions about them,» says Takanari Inoue, Ph.D., an associate professor of cell biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and senior author of the report on the research published online Nov. 6 in the journal Nature Materials.

She earned her bachelor's degree in biology at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and her doctorate in evolution, ecology and behavior at Indiana University.

«We tend to measure the impact of human activity based on the area it affects on a map, but mountaintop mining is penetrating much more deeply into the earth than other land use in the region like forestry, agriculture or urbanization,» said Emily Bernhardt, a professor of biology at Duke and co-author on the study.

«Clearly, the conclusions for this particular gene need to be reconsidered,» says Jaenisch, who is also a professor of biology at MIT.

David Bowman, a professor of environmental change biology at the University of Tasmania in Australia and lead author of the study, said he was motivated to map and analyze wildfires because his city, Hobart, Australia, was devastated by a megafire 50 years ago this month.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

«Given the incredible variety and complexity of shorelines in the Salish Sea, to pick out patterns we had to go very broad and step back and squint, if you will,» said lead author Megan Dethier, a research professor of biology at the UW's Friday Harbor Laboratories.

A team of Smithsonian biologists led by Brandt Ryder worked closely with Ben Vernasco, a doctoral candidate in biology at Virginia Tech, on a study that aimed to identify characteristics that promote healthy wood thrush populations on U.S. Department of Defense land.

Axel Meyer is a professor of zoology and evolutionary biology at the University of Konstanz in Germany.

«By designing scientific lighting that mimics the ocean's light along with cameras that can capture the animals» fluorescent light, we can now catch a glimpse of this hidden biofluorescent universe,» said co-lead author David Gruber, an associate professor of biology at Baruch College and a research associate at the American Museum of Natural History.

Christie Wilcox is a postdoctoral researcher in cellular and molecular biology at the University of Hawaii, where she studies venom.

Jason: I majored in molecular biology at Princeton University and then went to grad school in biology at MIT.

Kilpatrick and coauthor Winifred Frick, an adjunct professor of biology at UC Santa Cruz, are leading efforts to develop a «probiotic» treatment using bacteria to suppress the growth of the fungus.

Dr. Verma is associate professor of medicine and of developmental & molecular biology at Einstein and director, hematologic malignancies at the Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care.

Only 39 of these viral populations were similar to previously known viruses, said Matthew Sullivan, a senior author on one of the Tara papers and an associated professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

At about that time, he saw an advertisement for a position in computational biology at Harvard, and he decided to apply for it.

Data and analytical tools were provided by Adam Pellegrini, a Princeton graduate student of ecology and evolutionary biology; Lawren Sack and Megan Bartlett, a professor and graduate student, respectively, of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California - Los Angeles; Brendan Choat, a senior lecturer at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University in Australia and Steven Jansen, professor of botany at Ulm University in Germany.

Todd Dawson, professor of integrative biology at the University of California - Berkeley, said the research provides a holistic understanding of tree die - off at a time when global temperatures — and possibly drought conditions — are expected to rise.

At first Hooker thought these questions could best be answered in a lab, so she enrolled in a Ph.D. program in molecular, cellular, and developmental biology at Yale University in 2000.

The early stages of this transition have now been studied by Martin Brazeau, a graduate student in evolutionary biology at Uppsala University, Sweden, and his advisor, paleontologist Per Ahlberg.

«I've been working on parasitoid wasps for a very long time,» remarked Jack Werren, a professor of biology at the University of Rochester.

As an undergraduate student in biology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Marcy came under the wing of evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Hadly, whose outreach work made Marcy keenly aware of the value of doing more than just research.

«It's a real surprise,» says Jeff Powell, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University in Connecticut, US.

The species are important for both ecological and economic reasons, according to Eric Palkovacs, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and first author of the paper.

The study, led by Amy Russell, associate professor of biology at Grand Valley, reveals that the Hawaiian hoary bat migrated to the islands from the Pacific coast of North America in two separate waves more than 9,000 years apart.

In 2011, she taught 10th grade chemistry and biology at The Calverton School, a college preparatory academy in Huntingtown, Maryland.

It's a really difficult problem to solve, and not just in biology,» said coauthor John Thompson, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

And while previous extinctions have been driven by natural planetary transformations or catastrophic asteroid strikes, the current die - off can be associated to human activity, a situation that the lead author Rodolfo Dirzo, a professor of biology at Stanford, designates an era of «Anthropocene defaunation.»

«We have been able to view cell biology at high resolution on a microscope slide for a long time,» said Shroff, «but many times that's not how those cells exist in nature.»

«We don't really know the future of forests in a changing climate,» said lead author William Anderegg, an associate research scholar in the Princeton Environmental Institute and an incoming assistant professor of biology at the University of Utah.

Khalil served as co-senior author on the study with Radhika Atit, PhD, professor of biology at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

Jason Sheltzer, the article's first author, is a graduate student, studying cancer biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge.

«Previous research has shown that CTCF acts as a key insulating barrier to prevent mistakes in cells as they multiply and differentiate,» says Varun Narendra, the study's lead author, and a fifth - year graduate PhD student in developmental biology at NYU Langone and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

«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.

Nicola G. A. Abrescia, group leader of structural biology at the Center for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (Centro de Investigación Cooperativa en Biociencias, CIC bioGUNE), is funded by Ikerbasque.

Joy Ward, Ph.D., studies ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Scientists led by John Kuwada, professor of molecular, cellular and developmental biology at the University of Michigan, and Hiromi Hirata of the National Institute of Genetics in Japan originally identified the gene in mutant zebrafish that exhibited severe muscle weakness.

«We are literally going to have to rewrite medical textbooks,» says Roger Pierson, director of reproductive biology at the University of Saskatchewan in Canada and senior author of a study published in July.

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Dr. Long completed his undergraduate degree in zoology at University of Maryland, followed by a Ph.D. in biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

John Beddington, professor of population biology at Imperial College, London, says that if fishing continues at today's levels, marine ecosystems will be radically altered, becoming less biologically diverse.

Dr. Tsang is also associate professor of pathology and cell biology at CUMC and an attending physician at NewYork - Presbyterian Hospital.

Dr. Kubicek studied synthetic organic chemistry for his undergraduate degree at the Vienna University of Technology and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and received his Ph.D. in in molecular biology at the Research Institute of Molecular Pathology in Vienna.

Dr. Hicklin studied biology at Colorado State University for her undergraduate education before earning a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

Its mission is to address fundamental questions in biology at the molecular level using cutting - edge techniques, including X-ray laser science.