Sentences with phrase «biology research at»
It was into this well - established interdisciplinary environment that Eriko Takano arrived in 2012 to lead synthetic biology research at the MIB.
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Looking at sixty - seven recent drug discovery projects based on preclinical cancer biology research, they found that in more than 75 percent of cases the published data did not match up with their in - house attempts to replicate.
Heller, a scientist at the Vatican Observatory who does research in quantum gravity; Peter E. Hodgson, a professor of nuclear physics at Oxford University; Kenneth R. Miller, a professor of biology at Brown University.
«Abiogenesis is only one area of research which illustrates that the naturalistic origin of life hypothesis has become less and less probable as molecular biology has progressed, and is now at the point that its plausibility appears outside the realm of probability.
His John Templeton Foundation (est. 1987) supports scientific research at top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology and evolutionary biology, and also supports informed dialogue between scientists and theologians.
To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.
At GFI, David combines his background in plant biology and regenerative medicine to help companies and academic research institutions accelerate the development of plant - based and clean meat alternatives to animal products.
In an accompanying editorial, Theodore Slotkin, a professor of pharmacology and cancer biology at the Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina, writes that it's undeniable that smoking while pregnant contributes to later behavior problems in children, based on the new study and past research.
Doug Taron, curator of biology and vice president of conservation and research at the museum, stood in a...
This funding opportunity will underpin and rapidly develop a new research area across the interface of chemistry and biology at a vital stage of my career and provide a welcome platform for my future research.»
As a second - year biology student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) de Cachan in France, Cyrielle Barbot was planning on a research career when she felt «the desire to have a project among friends,» she says.
By turning cell biology into an engineering discipline, CCC aims to develop new chemicals and materials for medical and consumer applications, while at the same time training a more diverse research and manufacturing workforce.
Interested in the fundamental biology of real - world problems, he accumulated a wide range of research skills to better investigate the molecular mechanisms at play in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.
Jose E. Garcia - Arraras, a biology professor at the university's biology research center on the Río Piedras campus, said a power plant designed to keep scientific samples refrigerated broke down and the roof of a critical building gave way to flooding, rendering «samples, libraries, cell lines, etc. lost.»
For Molly Schumer, a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School, the fellowship will help fund her research on how evolutionary forces affect our genes, focusing in particular on a persistent trait that can cause melanoma in swordtail fish.
After earning a master's degree from Boston University's science journalism program and internships at Science News and Science, he became Science's New England correspondent, initially focusing on biology and biomedical research and later on astronomy.
«We need to normalize the situation at the University of Puerto Rico as soon as possible — fix the electric grid and fix the Julio Garcia Diaz Building,» said Garcia - Arraras, referencing the university's severely damaged biology research center.
There have been more than 900 publications related to the topic since 1984, with the vast majority of them published since 2005, according to Owen D. Jones, director of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Law and Neuroscience and a professor of both law and biology at Vanderbilt University.
The German - born Frank, who was inducted as a AAAS fellow in 1997, is a professor of biochemistry, molecular biophysics and biological sciences at Columbia in New York City and the Scottish - born Henderson, who has been a AAAS member since 1996, has served as director of the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology research facility where hundreds of scientists work on neurobiology, cell biology and biotechnology.
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.
Lasker led the research trip with Peter Edmunds, PhD, professor of biology at Cal State Northridge.
Yanhong Pan, associate research fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and corresponding author of a paper describing the research and co-author Mary Schweitzer, NC State professor of biology with a joint appointment at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, examined feathers from an Eoconfuciusornis specimen taken from the Jehol Biota site in northern China, which is renowned for excellent fossil preservation.
Her work in protein research at Hunter and her grandmother's recent diagnosis of ovarian cancer sparked an interest in cancer biology and immunology, but Rezende is eager to sample other fields.
Another place where mathematical biology is taken to new heights is at the Banff International Research Station (BIRS), nestled in the town of Banff and surrounded by the Rocky Mountains.
The discovery is an important advance in the search for new medications to fight obesity, said senior investigator Shingo Kajimura, PhD, UCSF assistant professor of cell and tissue biology, with a joint appointment in the UCSF Diabetes Center and the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF.
«This work may have interesting implications for the stem cell field,» says Richard Lang, a professor of developmental biology at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Research Foundation.
In the early 1970s, I majored in human biology at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where my faculty adviser's research interest was in the biochemistry of schistosomes.
Frustrated by the lack of information available about industry research at the university, Gervais's first insight into pharmaceutical research came toward the end of his PhD studies at McGill University when he attended a seminar given by invited speaker Don Nicholson, a senior director and head of biology at Merck Frosst Canada [Merck Frosst is sponsor of Next Wave Canada].
The initiative is designed to stimulate collaborative research at the interface of computing and the sciences, including biology, chemistry, physics, neuroscience, materials science, immunology, and ecology.
After the biology major graduated in 2011, she worked as a research assistant at the University of Washington in Seattle, her alma mater.
In August the National Science Foundation affirmed the promise of synthetic biology with a $ 16 million grant to establish the Synthetic Biology Engineering Research Center (SynBERC), a collaboration among such institutions as Harvard University, MIT, the University of California at San Francisco, and the University of California at Berkeley.
Lee ignored him, earning her Ph.D. in biology at the National Institute for Medical Research in London, followed by a postdoc specializing in molecular genetics in yeast at Imperial College London.
According to Izpisúa Belmonte, who is also a professor at the gene expression laboratories of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in San Diego, California, CMRB aims to become «a research centre of excellence in south Europe in the line of world - recognized institutions such as the Salk or the Whitehead institutes, where both pre - and postdoctoral researchers receive multidisciplinary training of the highest quality» in stem cell biology and cell regeneration.
«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.
«Everything we talked about was about research directly on the embryo,» for example, to improve on infertility treatment or better understand cancer biology, says R. Alta Charo, a law professor and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School who was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel in the mid-1990s, which considered how embryos might be used in rresearch directly on the embryo,» for example, to improve on infertility treatment or better understand cancer biology, says R. Alta Charo, a law professor and bioethicist at the University of Wisconsin Law School who was a member of the NIH Human Embryo Research Panel in the mid-1990s, which considered how embryos might be used in rResearch Panel in the mid-1990s, which considered how embryos might be used in researchresearch.
Such short postdoc contracts are «counterproductive,» says Patrick Lemaire, a group leader in developmental biology at the Cell Biology Research Center of Montpellier who is co-author of the report and co-founder of Sciences en Marche, because they don't offer the time or stability necessary to develop a research direction or acquire newResearch Center of Montpellier who is co-author of the report and co-founder of Sciences en Marche, because they don't offer the time or stability necessary to develop a research direction or acquire newresearch direction or acquire new skills.
«I am building up a team of physicists but in a biomedical research unit, so I will be in a perfect environment to develop projects at the interface between physics and biology.»
- The Wellcome Trust - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Postdoctoral Fellowships to support research at the interfaces between biology, medicine, mathematics, engineering, computer, and physical or chemical sciences and other biomedical science grants
Peng Yin, a systems biologist at Harvard University, who was not involved in the new research, says he is impressed by the work and calls it «an important advance for molecular programming, dynamic DNA nanotechnology and in vitro synthetic biology.»
Dmitry Royhman, currently studying to get his PSM in cell and molecular biology at IIT, says, «The reason I chose to do the PSM instead of the traditional Master's degree was because the M.S. would have restricted me more toward research, and I was not sure that was the path for me.»
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.
«By learning how tau spreads, we may be able to stop it from jumping from neuron to neuron,» said Karen Duff, PhD, professor in the department of pathology and cell biology (in the Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain) and professor of psychiatry (at New York State Psychiatric Institute.)
As an undergraduate at New College of Florida, I pursued research in coral reef biology.
Enoch Huang, head of computational sciences at Pfizer PharmaTherapeutics Research and Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts, says that big pharma needs scientists with computational biology skills right now, but the needs are precise.
«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.
Led by Chris McKay, a planetary scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center in California, the Enceladus Life Signatures and Habitability (ELSAH) mission would fly through a plume to seek out signs of biology lurking within the tiny moon.
Jaroslav Flegr, a professor of biology at Charles University in Prague in the Czech Republic who was not involved in the study, said this was a confirmation of observations made by his research team over the last two decades.
Ràfols got a first taste of academic research in Rosa Araujo's microbiology lab halfway through his 6 - year biology degree at the University of Barcelona in his native Spain.
By looking at 25 years of data on the Konza Prairie Biological Station, Allison Veach, doctoral student in biology, Muncie, Indiana, and Walter Dodds, university distinguished professor of biology, are researching grassland streams and the expansion of nearby woody vegetation, such as trees and shrubs.
«It was kind of fun being at a medical school and known as the weird guy who worked with dogs,» says Modiano, who is now a professor of comparative oncology at the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine and the Masonic Cancer Center, where his research focuses on immunology, cancer cell biology, cancer genetics, and applications of gene therapy.