Sentences with phrase «biology research projects»

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As he researched his subject, exploring economics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, Buchholtz became convinced that much of the modern happiness project was a crock — not just unhelpful economically, but unhealthy and unnatural.

Ceze has been working with Karin Strauss, a computer architecture researcher with Microsoft Research, on a collaboration between the two institutions — a project that bridges computer science and biology.

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.

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.

The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National Centers for Systems Biology, academic centers that emphasize network biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).

DARPA itself has been one of the largest public funders of synthetic biology research in the U.S. in recent years, upping its spending on synthetic biology projects to more than $ 100 million in 2014 from nothing in 2010, according to one analysis.

«Search for scholarships and research labs and tell people that you are interested in applying either your biological knowledge to the mathematical techniques or the computational mathematical techniques to their biology projects and that you want to give a synthetic biology flavor,» Krasnogor advises.

RAMS provides up to two dozen students with an opportunity to develop research skills by involving them in projects in computer science, math, computational biology, information technology, and materials science.

«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 study published in the Biology Letters journal is part of a research project on human evolutionary biology led by Academy Professor Virpi Lummaa.

The lead authors are Clare Marsden, a UCLA assistant project scientist in Lohmueller's research group, and Diego Ortega - Del Vecchyo, a UCLA graduate student in Lohmueller's research group; co-authors include Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College.

HepatoSys, with $ 13 million funding from the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) for the first 3 years and $ 24 million promised for the following three, is a nationwide German systems biology project.

«This is a remarkable case of extreme degeneration of an animal body plan,» said Paulyn Cartwright, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU and principal investigator on the research project.

On 1 April, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new division that will consolidate biology research scattered across its existing six divisions and possibly expand the arsenal of pResearch Projects Agency (DARPA) announced a new division that will consolidate biology research scattered across its existing six divisions and possibly expand the arsenal of pProjects Agency (DARPA) announced a new division that will consolidate biology research scattered across its existing six divisions and possibly expand the arsenal of presearch scattered across its existing six divisions and possibly expand the arsenal of projectsprojects.

in biology from the University of Valencia and did their final - year research project at the Cavanilles Institute.

He just launched a new research project that will examine understandings of gender within evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology.

«The complexity of our biology resides not in the number of our genes but in the regulatory switches,» Eric Green, director of the National Human Genome Research Institute and collaborator on the ENCODE project, said in a press briefing September 5.

This team award recognizes the contributions of four Monsanto researchers — Robert Fraley, co-President of the Agricultural Sector; Robert Horsch, co-President of the Sustainable Development Sector and General Manager of the Agracetus Research Campus; Ernest Jaworski, retired Director of the Biological Sciences Program; and Stephen Rogers, Director of Biotechnology Projects at Monsanto's European Center for Crop Research in Brussels, Belgium — for their pioneering achievements in plant biology and agricultural biotechnology, and for global leadership in the development and commercialization of genetically modified crops to enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability.

In a new project, it's a good idea to test different methods and we wanted to lay a good foundation for future studies, says researcher Eero Vesterinen from the University of Helsinki, who in his earlier research has specialised in the research of feeding biology, especially by applying molecular research methods based on DNA.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), for example, is now «very interested in mixing disciplines such as computing, physical science, and biology together,» says DARPA spokesperson, Jan Walker.

As anyone who still manages to hold down a job in biological research will know, projects in molecular biology dominate grant applications and also grant awards.

My first research project took place at Beloit College in Wisconsin, which has a wonderful biology program.

Take the most complex organ in the human body, superimpose the legacy of biology's biggest research project, and what have you got?

«We found all three oils raised the cholesterol levels in the liver and blood, dispelling the popular myth that soybean oil reduces cholesterol levels,» said Frances Sladek, a professor of cell biology, who led the research project.

Ph.D. student Markus Geisen of the Natural History Museum in London was to lead a research project on a micropaleontology grant this summer but says he now plans to skip over to Germany for a short - term contract researching coccolith biology.

«The long - term goal of this research group is to bridge the disciplines of hydrology, geochemistry and marine biology to help answer pressing questions regarding the source and impact of nutrient pollution in Hawaiian coastal waters,» said Craig Glenn, Henrietta Dulaiova and Celia Smith, the collaborating principal investigators and co-authors of the Hawai'i Sea Grant project.

Allison Miller, an associate professor in biology at Saint Louis University, is the lead for the NSF project, which also involves researchers from the University of Missouri, Missouri State University, Danforth Plant Center and Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, as well as the Grape Genetics Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Geneva, New York.

«In retrospect, we rolled the dice with this project, because by choosing to investigate Notch we were entering one of the most crowded research areas in biology.

«This was an undergraduate research project,» says Ingi Agnarsson, a spider expert and professor of biology at UVM who led the new study.

DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the supporter of the development of the Internet, has declared the rapid engineering of biology one of the highest national priorities, but achieving that goal will require a different mind - set as we move from a discovery - based to an application - based biology.

His research interests are broad, covering conservation and evolutionary biology of insects, biodiversity and land use, and interdisciplinary cooperation and project co-ordination in biodiversity.

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology seeks to address growing concerns about reproducibility in scientific research by conducting replications of 50 papers in the field of cancer biology published between 2010 and 2012.

The Reproducibility Project: Cancer Biology seeks to address growing concerns about reproducibility in scientific research by replicating selected results from a substantial number of high - profile papers in the field of cancer biology published between 2010 and 2012.

In the future, any science student should be able to use DNA sequencing technology as a tool to learn about biology and to participate in serious science projects that have their own impact on the research community.

In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and biomedical engineering.

February 2010 - Italian stem cell scientists challenge goverment EuroSyStem scientist Elena Cattaneo challenges Italian government - the story continues In the summer of 2009, three Italian stem celli scientists unsuccessfully challenged their government in the courts over its decision to exclude human embryonic stem cell research from a ministerial funding call for projects on stem cell biology.

The goal of this project is the creation of a comic book series that communicates plant biology research to children ages 9 to 12.

We congratulate stem cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research project «Systems biology of embryonic stem...

Dr. Conklin's expertise in the field of stem cell biology, genomics, regulatory signaling and bioinformatics is essential for the success of his research projects.

«Our faculty members have been very successful in obtaining support from the National Science Foundation, including major research equipment grants and grants for cooperative training and instructional projects such as projects for training graduate students in biological and cultural evolution together with the WSU Department of Anthropology, and for training undergraduates in mathematical biology together with the Department of Mathematics.»

In 2009, the Synthetic Biology Project began mapping the increased research in the field of synthetic biology, finding pockets of work being done in California, Massachusetts, the United Kingdom and Germany.

According to Dr Adil Mardinoglu, SciLifeLab Fellow and leader of the systems biology effort in the project: «We are now in possession of incredibly powerful systems biology tools for medical research, allowing, for the first time, genome - wide analysis of individual patients with regards to the consequence of their expression profiles for clinical survival.»

The Synthetic Biology Project found that the U.S. government has spent around $ 430 million on research related to synthetic biology since 2005, funded in large part by the Department of Energy.

We congratulate stem cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research project «Systems biology of embryonic stem cell differentiation».

We anticipate awarding 24 internships that will support work in the fields of ecology, evolution, ecosystem sciences or conservation biology, broadly defined, with a priority for projects that focus on one of the following Montana NSF EPSCoR RII Track - 1 research areas:

A consortium of 10 academic and industrial partners located across the EU, including Prof Mark Leake from York's departments of Physics and Biology, has been awarded a research grant for the project «SynCrop» to investigate and develop cutting - edge methods to improve food production using novel synthetic biology tools.

A new poll conducted by Hart Research Associates and the Synthetic Biology Project finds that two - thirds of Americans think that synthetic biology should move forward, but with more research to study its possible effects on humans and the enviResearch Associates and the Synthetic Biology Project finds that two - thirds of Americans think that synthetic biology should move forward, but with more research to study its possible effects on humans and the enviresearch to study its possible effects on humans and the environment.

Washington, DC — Carnegie's Robert Hazen has been awarded a $ 1.4 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation for a three - year data - driven research project on the co-evolution of the planet's biology and geology.

The Synthetic Biology project recently received two grants from the National Science Foundation to support a Transatlantic Exploratory Workshop on the Implications of Cutting - Edge Biotechnologies for Sustainability Science and Policy, and research on the use of on - line prediction markets to explore emerging issues in synthetic biology.

The AgedBrainSYSBIO consortium is coordinated by the French National Institute for health and medical research (Inserm, Prof. Michel Simonneau) and brings together an scientists with internationally recognized expertise in systems biology of the synapse and four small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) with a leading role in the project to assure the innovation potential and translation of project results to clinical application.