Sentences with phrase «biology department»

- A biology major Nobody argues evolution in any accredited college or university biology department.

One day, a recruiter for a certain prestigious consulting firm came to my graduate biology department.

I decided to leave research after becoming dissatisfied as a postdoc in an academic cell biology department.

I can not speak for the «academy more generally,» but in biology departments sociobiology went down to utter defeat.

In 1970, Marcker took a professorial position in the molecular biology department at the University of Aarhus, and 4 years later he used his influence to help bring Clark to the university.

To perform the kind of discipline - straddling work she desired, in 2002 she joined the evolutionary biology department at Harvard University as a graduate student.

«If you think about the worst invasive species, ants frequently show up on those lists, and big - headed ants are among the most problematic,» said University of Illinois entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez, who led the new study with postdoctoral researcher Bill Wills.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

Prof. Hippler and Prof. Kurisu say «our collaboration between Osaka and Münster is really complementary, because OU does not have agricultural faculties and WWUM does not have a structural biology department.»

I contacted Erich Grotewold, a professor in the plant biology department at Ohio State University, after reading some of his work on metabolic engineering.

The traditional academic division of disciplines is governed by this sense of ontological discontinuity, and so biology departments have been separated administratively from those of chemistry and physics.

When he searched for graduate schools, he was surprised to find that it was easier to get into a school in the U.S. than in India, because biology departments in his native land wanted him to have a biology background.»

Similarly, when a biologist coming out of, say, a plant molecular biology department draws up a CV without any prior consideration as to the marketing of his or her pedigree, that individual will be forced into the same box.

Union organizer Jack Nicoludis, a graduate student in the chemistry and chemical biology department, notes that one of the most important functions a union can serve is to provide a formal mechanism to address student grievances.

Some cover letters, says Robert Horvitz, chair of MIT's biology department search committee, may inadvertently convey negative impressions of a candidate, especially if they «look sloppy or indicate an inability to communicate in English.»

Suddenly, extracurricular activities were a detriment — what graduate biology department cares what I did in the marching band?

«Rapamycin is already used in humans for unrelated things,» says Steven Austad, scientific director of the American Federation for Aging Research and chair of the University of Alabama at Birmingham biology department.

Since 1988, Hughes has given $ 154 million to 225 biology departments around the country to improve the undergraduate curriculum and upgrade labs.

Rumors are swirling within Harvard that the university's stem cell and regenerative biology department may stay in Cambridge rather than move to the new complex in 2011, as currently planned.

During the 2004 cicada emergence in Baltimore, one of the administrators in my graduate biology department told me she was fielding phone calls daily from people with questions about cicadas.

For the paper, more than 640 studies comparing lecturing with some kind of active learning were examined by Freeman, Wenderoth and their other co-authors, Sarah Eddy, Miles McDonough, Nnadozie Okoroafor and Hannah Jordt, all with the UW biology department, and Michelle Smith with the University of Maine.

Stephen Hamilton, integrative biology department and Kellogg Biological Station.

He also put to good use his engineering capabilities, guiding the Rochester biology department into the bioinformatics age, specifically the use of phylogenetic software.

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One indication of the success of this effort is the fact that some program graduates who obtained their Ph.D. s in mathematics now have faculty appointments in biology departments, and some with Ph.D. s in ecology have faculty appointments in mathematics.

Unfortunately, for researchers looking for funding, the joke in most university biology departments is «how can I link my research to global warming?»

«We don't know what [the government] will do with it, but we shall remain vigilant,» says Alain Trautmann, co-director of the cell biology department at the Cochin Institute and spokesman for the protest movement.

«She thought that this was an important lesson for me to learn,» says Gorbunova, who has since joined the faculty in Baylor's biochemistry and molecular biology department.

Niyogi chose MIT for graduate school, even though he didn't know if MIT's biology department included any plant biologists.

Eaton E. Lattman, a professor in Buffalo's structural biology department and medical school and chief executive officer of the Hauptman - Woodward Medical Research Institute, will be director of the BioXFEL center.

The findings, reported in Biology Letters, reveal that chemical context makes all the difference to the trap - jaw ant (Odontomachus brunneus), said University of Illinois postdoctoral researcher Adrian Smith, who led the study with U. of I. entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

«[I] t is undeniable that European vulture populations could be seriously affected by the ingestion of diclofenac, and its use has become a matter of great concern for ecologists, politicians, and conservationists,» write the five scientists, who represent agriculture, ecology, and biology departments at universities in both Spain and Switzerland.

Graduate biology departments in India preferred entrants with strong biology backgrounds, and Dr. Malik found greater openness among schools in the United States.

Those who still cling to pre-scientific religious fictions, ignoring the truths discovered through modern science, should at least take notice when the biology department at the world's most prominent Baptist university, where a statement of faith is a prerequisite for teaching, unequivocally support evolution through the following statement, which you can look up on their web site:

If Professor Arnhart's ideas were correct we would expect that university biology departments would be hotbeds of conservatism.

I am aware of no biology department in this country at which a sociobiologist could be hired today, and very few would even have any interest in hiring a behavioral ecologist.

Bethell is quite wrong, however, in asserting that «in the biology departments and in the academy more generally, [E. O.] Wilson and his supporters resoundingly won the debate.»

This year, Saïb became chair of the biology department at the National School of Engineering and Technology, an applied research center that also promotes the scientific culture and offers lifelong learning opportunities to adults.

IN TODAY»S biotech industry, start - up companies sprout from every university biology department, looking to hook up with big pharma or agrochemical firms to take their patented, DNA - based ingenuity lucratively to market.

Eventually, a lab tech in the biology department showed him how the company's biochemists and pharmacologists tested newly developed compounds.

(The dean of students made him move his scorpions to the biology department.)

To this end, I applied for summer research jobs in the biology department at York.

That means that they are in a Department of Medicine or a Department of Pediatrics rather than in the biochemistry or molecular biology departments, although many of us have joint appointments that span both worlds.

R. Thomas Zoeller, chair of the biology department at the University of Massachussetts, called it «a very important paper.»