Sentences with phrase «biology at the university»

What you do in the mornings can be vital to productivity, according to Steve Kay, a professor of molecular and computational biology at the University of Southern California.

The Folly of Scientism Austin L Hughes, a professor of biology at the University of South Carolina, has written a perceptive, thought - provoking article in The New Atlantis magazine, concurring with my own view of current philosophical trends in popular scientific presentations.2 One of these trends is «scientism», the view that science is the only source of truth and reality.

Stephen Meredith is professor in the departments of pathology, neurology, and biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of Chicago, where he also teaches courses on literature, philosophy, and theology.

His teaching career includes Oxford, Columbia and the Universities of Chicago and Minnesota, as well as visiting professor of genetics at the University of California at Berkeley and professor of biology at the University of Sydney.

As I got older I never saw art as a career choice and because I was obsessed with animals I went into the sciences, studying zoology and marine biology at university.

After studying marine botany and biology at the University of Connecticut, Mark Marroni completed law school and ran a successful practice.

Nicole Danos, an assistant professor of biology at the University of San Diego, and her collaborator, Rebecca Z. German, a professor of anatomy and neurobiology at Northeastern Ohio Medical University, are working together to address a gap in our understanding of breastfeeding mechanics.

Roman Giger, an associate professor of cell and developmental biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, studies neurodegeneration and treating spinal cord injury.

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

- Benjamin Martin, doctoral candidate in biochemistry and molecular biology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada

She left a position as an associate professor of biology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston to take a job in the research and development laboratory of Union Carbide Corporation.

Now 24, he is a first - year graduate student in the department of cellular and structural biology at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (UTHSCSA), where he is studying the role of oxidative damage — the wear and tear inflicted upon the cell by toxic molecules called free radicals — in the aging process.

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

She studied biology at the University of Iowa and earned a master's in science journalism as a Fulbright Scholar at City University in London.

«Acquired resistance is important because it is the basis of vaccination campaigns based on «herd immunity», where immunization of a subset of individuals protects all from a pathogen,» said Jason Rohr, an associate professor of integrative biology who led the research team with Taegan McMahon, a USF alumnus who is now an assistant professor of biology at the University of Tampa.

«The production of proteins is a key process in all cells, and it is important to make the right amounts of each protein at just the right time,» said Michael Welte, an associate professor of biology at the University of Rochester.

A combination of circumstances induced me to leave India and enroll in the graduate program in what was then the department of cellular and developmental biology at the University of Arizona, Tucson, in the U.S. My Ph.D. supervisor, Neil Mendelson, had been a well - known name in DNA replication and cell division in Bacillus subtilis, but by the time I had joined his lab, his interest had decidedly shifted to cell shape determination.

During my studies of biology at the University of Cologne in Germany, I realized that humans are less than unimportant life - forms on Earth, and that insects rule in each and every sense of the meaning.

I first came to what would later be known as the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh after doing research in reproductive biology at the University of Cambridge.

In time, she channeled her early passion for how things work into academic study, majoring in biology at the University of Rochester and earning a Ph.D. in anatomy and neuroscience at Georgetown University School of Medicine.

When Carol Plautz (formerly Carol Zygar) was nearing the end of her doctoral studies in biology at the University of Virginia (UVA) in Charlottesville, she wrote an article for Science's Next Wave that detailed the ways that graduate students can pay for their education.

A puzzle of flight — what keeps bumble bees aloft — was solved by Michael Dickinson, an assistant professor of integrative biology at the University of California at Berkeley.

The study «highlights the importance of temperature on evolution — particularly mammal evolution,» says Felisa Smith, a professor of biology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, who wrote an essay on the findings in the same issue of Science.

After finishing my medical training in Germany, conducting some research in France, and doing a postdoc in the United States, I settled in France for good in 1995, becoming a professor of cell and molecular biology at the University of Bordeaux.

He has a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria, became professor of theoretical biology at the University of Oxford aged 32, then moved to Princeton University and later to Harvard.

Before completing a Ph.D. in biology at the University of Utah in 2015, Varner earned a master of engineering degree in biological engineering and a bachelor of science degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Bill Fagan, professor of biology at the University of Maryland, finds hope in the team's discoveries.

As a Ph.D. student, Vermeulen was «an extremely motivated scientist, really striving to do things very well... and trying to reach [his] goals,» says Luc De Meester, a former colleague of Vermeulen's who today is a full professor in the department of biology at the University of Leuven.

Robin Moore, a graduate student in conservation biology at the University of Kent at Canterbury, investigated how the tadpoles respond when they detect the scent of snakes.

A professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley, the 71 - year - old Duesberg could pass for a younger man.

J. Peter Gogarten in the department of molecular and cell biology at the University of Connecticut at Storrs, gives a broader overview:

Because the pull from the East to the West is strong, the apparent ease with which Chinese natives find their way into U.S. laboratories may have inadvertently «created a different type of student,» suggests Caren Chang, an assistant professor in molecular biology at the University of Maryland, College Park.

In 2006, I flew across the ocean to study molecular biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Karen Lips, an associate professor of biology at the University of Maryland, College Park, along with Kevin Smith and Jonathan Chase at Washington University in St. Louis, found that the average number of frog species at the eight sites dropped from 45 to 23 after the appearance of the chytrid fungus.

One of the participants, Hopi Hoekstra, was a postdoc, and now she is an assistant professor of biology at the University of California at San Diego.

Mark Pagel, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Reading in England, doesn't consider himself a scientist, just a person thinking about the world.

- Sara Wong, doctoral student in cellular and molecular biology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor

«Sequencing the Joshua tree genome is the first step to revealing the genetic basis of climate adaptations,» said Jeremy Yoder, a post-doctoral fellow studying evolutionary biology at the University of British Columbia.

According to Maria R. Servedio, a professor of biology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill whose research areas include speciation and the evolution of premating isolation, these results are exciting because there has been speculation about behaviors essential to survival and reproduction being disrupted in hybrids, but very few well - established examples.

There are a whole lot of species concepts, says Richard Richards, a philosopher of biology at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa.

At a minimum, it's expected that the Ontario reprieve will allow academic scientists to conduct their own studies, says Jules Blais, president of the Canadian Society of Canadian Limnologists and a professor of biology at the University of Ottawa.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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

«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.

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.

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

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.