Sentences with phrase «biology lab on»

Garrison's dream of setting up a modern biology lab on the Navajo reservation grows out of her positive research experiences in the MARC program, she says.

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On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

Chemical biology and drug discovery usually depend on screens of cells in lab dishes, for example.

These days, as assistant professor in genomics and systems biology at Harvard University, she usually is listed last on papers that come out of her lab.

• In News Focus, Robert Service writes about a relatively new scientific discipline (or, if you prefer, a new science career path): lone investigators, like Stanford University's Atul Butte, who do «dry lab» biology working on big - data problems with publically available data.

Over the next 10 minutes, I learned that my hobby was an embarrassment to the department, that there was no way I could properly focus on biology, and that every negative lab result I ever produced was a direct result of telling jokes at night.

Biola lacks an animal facility, for one, and he's swamped with a teaching load that includes physiology, an introductory biology lab section, and an advanced seminar on biological research methods, all in one semester.

Young scientists «might spend much of graduate school optimizing computer code for a large physics experiment, or extracting samples in a biology lab, or doing the statistical analyses on other people's data,» Walsh and Lee write in their email.

The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope, Spencer Nadler (Random House) Nadler ventures out of his pathology lab to meet patients and ruminates on the interplay between flawed biology and radiant humanity.

Researchers mainly have a background in biology or physics, and may carry out both on - field and in - the - lab experiments.

Led by Hazel Barton, UA associate professor of biology and recognized as having one of the world's preeminent cave microbiology labs, the research points to a group of fungi related to WSN, which appears as a white, powdery substance on the muzzles, ears and wings of infected bats and gives them the appearance they've been dunked in powdered sugar.

I am in the midst of negotiating a move back to the U.K. toward the beginning of 2005, in order to establish my own lab, basic research of which will focus on developmental biology.

The BYU team, comprised of graduate and undergraduate students in Tessem's lab and the labs of Ben Bikman and Jason Hansen (BYU professors of physiology and developmental biology), then dove in and dissected what was happening on the cellular level — specifically, the beta cell level.

Working on Arabidopsis, a model plant used widely in plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the plant endogenous systems involved in drought responses.

An internationally renowned molecular biology lab sits on the former grounds of a 19th - century whaling company.

EML Research consists of five research groups, three of which are focusing on fundamental biology questions, and (as a former experimentalist) when I walked into the «lab», I was struck by the lack of reagents lying around.

Amanda Curtis drew up a life plan in college that included studying biology in preparation for «spending time in the lab, working on a cure for cancer.»

«I remember saying to a student, «I don't know what this bird does, but it does something different from any other corvid on Earth because its bill is so weird,»» said McGowan, project manager for distance learning in bird biology at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

At the symposium, Matthew Teasdale, a postdoc in Dan Bradley's lab at Trinity College in Dublin, reported on the biology of another valuable text: the York Gospels, thought to have been written around 990 C.E. DNA from this book's eraser shavings showed that, aside from some sheep, its pages were mostly calfskin — mainly from female calves, which was unexpected because cows were usually allowed to grow up to bear offspring.

Update: In an e-mail, a spokesman for Veridex said the collaboration with Mass General is «is just beginning,» so there are «no details about what this future system will look like,» except that it will be small enough to sit on a lab bench and will be able to zero in on the biology of rare cells.

The Synthetic Biology Project has released a new documentary on the growth of do - it - yourself biology (DIYbio) as seen through a community DIYbio lab in Baltimore, MD..

JAX Genomic Medicine draws on the genetics, genomics and computational biology expertise of our growing faculty; which are recruited from among the world's best scientific labs and institutions.

Instructed three high school students in the lab on molecular biology techniques and thin layer chromatography.

The company was founded by pioneers of CRISPR biology based on research carried out in the Doudna Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.

Caribou's technologies are based on research into the biology of CRISPR - Cas systems carried out by the Doudna Lab at the University of California, Berkeley, and their collaborators.

The Park Nanoscience Lab at the Europe Headquarters in Manheim Germany is a new branch of Park Systems and part of a growing network of Park Global Nanoscience labs including a recently opened Park Nanoscience Center at SUNY Polytech Institute in Albany, New York.The Park Nanoscience Lab will showcase advanced atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems, demonstrate a wide variety of cutting - edge applications - ranging from materials science, to chemistry and biology, to semiconductor and data storage devices - and provide hands on experience, training and service, year - round.

While in our lab, Hong worked on the cell biology of FGF23.

I completed my PhD as a cell biology major in an engineering lab, where I established a new assay to answer questions very different from what the main part of the lab was working on.

As a postdoc at the Stanford lab of Brian Kobilka, Granier came face - to - face with the daunting challenges of attempting to conduct structural biology on a GPCR.

On the advice of Stanford Moore, a Rockefeller University biochemist whom he chanced upon at Vanderbilt, Walter applied to the graduate program at Rockefeller, joining the lab of Günter Blobel in 1973 — a move that marked the beginning of Walter's association with the international world of cell biology.

With their deep expertise in the biology of senescent cells, the Campisi lab will be focused on fundamental research into questions like how senescent cells vary in their susceptibility and resistance to immune clearance (depending on factors like their tissues of residence or the pathway that led them into senescence); the targets and mechanisms used by NK cells to clear senescent cells; and why subsets of senescent cells might persist when their similarly - situated neighbors are cleared out (and what might allow us to overcome that resistance).

That's why a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Joint Genome Institute (JGI) took one of the most popular clustering approaches in modern biology — the Markov Clustering (MCL) algorithm — and modified it to run quickly, efficiently and at scale on distributed - memory supercomputers.

Anyone staying late in the lab at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) on a Thursday night will witness a small but dedicated group of Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) students and a BTI graduate student or postdoc huddled around a microscope, discussing basic biology concepts, or laughing about a bit of science news — a teaching arrangement that has benefitted students and teachers alike since 2010.

He began working on biology problems over 15 years ago, while at Bell Labs.

The facility includes a 464 seat auditorium, as well as wet labs, microscopy and computer rooms, which allow courses on the latest technologies in the field of molecular biology.

After completing graduate studies in structural biology at the University of Toronto, Sliz signed on to provide computing expertise in the lab of Stephen Harrison and the late Don Wiley at Harvard University.

The first of this week's review articles from the lab of Umberto Galderisi (Campania University, Naples, Italy) discusses the effects of low dose ionizing radiation (LDIR) on the biology of stem cell compartments.

In my own lab here at Indiana University School of Medicine, I am bringing some of those chemical biology techniques to bear on problems in eye disease and we continue to work on tumors of the eye, but we also developed a major focus on neovascular eye diseases, including wet, age - related macular degeneration (AMD).

Dr. Susan Golden, distinguished professor in the division of biological sciences, molecular biology section at the University of California San Diego, wrote in a support letter, «The fundamental research carried out by Ry's lab over the years underpins so much of modern phage biology that it's difficult to imagine what the state of the field would be in his absence — undoubtedly poorer and perhaps non-existent — as he persevered during years and even decades when phage biology was viewed by many as passe and only a few labs carried on.»

Few fields of research have benefitted as significantly as structural biology from interdisciplinary synergies between lab - bench scale science on the one hand and large scale research infrastructure on the other.

High school students across Maryland work with scientists on board doing lab work in biology, chemistry, and forensic science.

But in general, instruction is both lively and practical, such as in one classroom where a biology teacher, donning a lab coat, leads a lab on extracting DNA from strawberries, or a ninth - grade math class in which a teacher integrates a Texas Instruments navigator system into every part of her lesson; she has her class turn assignments in via a graphing calculator and checks for comprehension with every student in real time.

While the focus is on life sciences to prepare students for high school biology, to ensure they have the skills for projects and labs, students spend time reviewing general principles of science, the scientific method, measurement, and measuring using the metric system.

For instance, principal Stephen Stoll says the biology course that had 70 labs a year ago now has only 30, because students need more time to learn the terms and concepts that will be on the Regents test.

For me, this actually happened right in the middle of a biology lab where I was dissecting a cow's eyeball — which ended with vitreous fluid on my lab partner's face.

This is typical of much global warming theorizing that over-relies on radiative physics (based on lab tests & QM) and views the climate as as a primarily linear chemical - thermodynamic system, rather than one modulated by biology and interacting feedbacks.

On the page in which the story finally appeared, a controversy involving a biology lab at Boston University received top billing and twice as much space.

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