Sentences with phrase «by labs director»

A less than 48 hour wallop where twelve lucky screenwriters get their workshop mojo on, headed by Labs Director Ilyse McKimmie, the Sundance Institute Screenwriters Intensive (aided by former participants passing on the baton and made possible by coin support by Will and Jada Smith Family Foundation) began yesterday with the folks you see above / read below receiving some sound advice.

The workshop was attended by lab directors and supervisors from the National Cancer Institute and focused on providing a core set of skills for emerging leaders at the NCI.

For interpreted genomes, the ordering physician will receive a report that identifies and interprets variants of clinical significance and is signed by a lab director.

Not exact matches

«Most of our companies are atoms leveraging bits» — lab science aided by computing power — «and they generally take more capital and a longer time horizon to hit those key milestones,» says Lindy Fishburne, executive director at Breakout Labs and managing director at Breakout Ventures.

Commentary by Andrew Maynard, the director of the Risk Innovation Lab at Arizona State University.

«Given that Canada's foreign policy has put gender equity issues prominently at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you have a Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized,» Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.

Another fellow, Barbara Martinez, was a 2011 - 2012 executive branch fellow who now works as innovation director at Conservation X Labs, a company founded by two alumni S&T Policy Fellows in order to develop new conservation models and prevent the extinction of species.

Media revelations about the scale of doping first appeared in May based on evidence from Grigory Rodchenkov, former director of the lab in Moscow where athletes» samples were handled, which was accredited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.

M.I.T.'s Laboratory for Computer Science is developing a new infrastructure for information technologies — the Oxygen system — that promises to realize a vision long held by the lab's director: helping people do more by doing less

This year, Michael Gottesman, deputy director for intramural research at the NIH, opened the retreat by guiding the audience through 20 years of research on multidrug resistance and the individual contributions of 48 postdoctoral fellows from his lab.

The study, published in Nature, was conducted by Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, and Carl Öhman, a postdoctoral researcher at OII, advises that online remains should be viewed in the same way as the physical human body, and treated with care and respect rather than manipulated for commercial gain.

Our source for this statistic is Dana Christensen, an associate lab director for energy and engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory as well as 1978 paper in Science authored by J. P. McBride and colleagues, also of ORNL.

Dana Christensen, associate lab director for energy and engineering at ORNL, says that health risks from radiation in coal by - products are low.

«Our results show that healthy growth can be achieved by combining certain soil bacteria with grasses, even when plants are grown in extremely nitrogen - deprived soil,» said study coauthor Richard Ferrieri, director of Brookhaven Lab's Radiochemistry and Biological Imaging Program.

Former Livermore Director Bruce Tarter says he expects the lab to be «buoyed up» by the win.

But it wasn't until 2008 that a team led by Stanley Williams, director of HP's Information and Quantum Systems lab in Palo Alto, California, finally made one from a speck of titanium dioxide.

Zheng, together with Leah Boyer, then a researcher in Gage's lab and now director of Salk's Stem Cell Core, generated diseased neurons by taking skin cells from patients with Leigh syndrome, reprogramming them into stem cells in culture and then coaxing them to develop into brain cells in a dish.

Ari Patrinos, associate director of science for biological and environmental research at the U.S. Department of Energy, and Daniel Drell, also with the DOE's office of biological and environmental research, suggest that Jones employ some creative solutions, including «assistance with additional funding sources, perhaps an additional student or postdoc to work in Montgomery's lab (but funded by Jones), an active scientific collaboration, or access to other technologies or resources that Montgomery, on his own, could not command.»

Researchers led by engineering professor Animesh Dutta, director of the Bio-Renewable Innovation Lab (BRIL) at U of G, have found a solution: pressure cooking.

«Our paper is a blueprint of how the cartilage - producing cell, called a chondrocyte, is made and maintained by Sox9,» said He, a postdoctoral research associate in the lab of Andy McMahon, director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.

«A healthy diet can be as easy as making the healthiest choice the most convenient, attractive, and normal,» said Brian Wansink, Ph.D. author of Slim by Design and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab.

John Hobbie, director of the Arctic Long - Term Ecological Research Project at the Marine Biological Lab, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, notes that the widespread changes identified by the researchers began after millennia of biotic constancy.

LaFrate is the president and director of research of Charas Scientific, one of eight labs certified by Colorado to do potency testing.

Hariri and his lab director, Daniel Weinberger, wondered if they could get more concrete answers by comparing people's genes not just to their behavior or a subjective psychological state, but to brain activity measured by a scan.

«Crazy meals involving less - than - healthy foods aren't a modern craving,» explains lead author Brian Wansink, PhD, Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design.

«One of the goals of this project is to help students think about labs as environments where science is practiced, [but] also [as] an environment that's shaped by culture and by norms,» says Julia Kent, CGS's director of global communications and best practices and Denecke's co — principal investigator on the project.

David Prendergast, a Facility Director at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, a U.S. Department of Energy National User Facility for Nanoscale Science Research, helped the Texas A&M team design and interpret their calculations, which were experimentally verified in part by Fakra using Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source along with structural data collected at Argonne National Lab's Advanced Photon Source.

«By looking at these three measures together, we were able to show that users do not spend enough time analyzing key phishing indicators, and often fail at detecting phishing attacks even when they are mentally engaged in the task and subconsciously processing real sites differently from fake sites,» said Nitesh Saxena, Ph.D., the director of the Security and Privacy In Emerging computing and networking Systems (SPIES) lab and associate professor of computer and information sciences at UAB.

Led by Alexandra Corning, research associate professor of psychology and director of Notre Dame's Body Image and Eating Disorder Lab, the study was presented recently at the Midwestern Psychological Association annual conference.

«This is a small study, but it suggests gardens can help children's diets — even in the snow belt,» said lead author Brian Wansink PhD, Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design.

New research from a team led by Wolf Frommer, director of the Plant Biology Department, Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, in collaboration with the Carter lab in Minnesota and the Baldwin lab at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, now identified key components of the sugar synthesis and secretion mechanisms.

«If you're a parent, it's better to focus on the benefits of broccoli and not the harms of hamburgers,» said lead author Brian Wansink, PhD director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design.

«Within the same university and department,» Tanyildiz wrote in the paper, «the percentage of students from a specific country of origin [is] higher in labs with a faculty member from the same country of origin, compared with labs that are directed by native [i.e., American - born] directors.»

«Grocers can benefit from encouraging healthy shopping practices because they can sell more perishable items like fruits and vegetables rather than tossing them in the dumpster after a few days,» says lead researcher Brian Wansink, PhD, director of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University and author of the new book, Slim by Design: Mindless Eating Solutions for Everyday Life, «The benefit to shoppers is obvious; healthier groceries result in healthier eating!»

«By working through each step so carefully, these researchers demonstrated a level of performance and efficiency that people did not think was possible at this point,» said Berkeley Lab chemist Frances Houle, JCAP deputy director for Science and Research Integration, who was not part of the study.

«As Secretary, I plan to set the agenda and lead this dialogue with the clear understanding that the lab leadership are strategic partners,» he wrote, adding that he met with lab directors three times in person or by videoconference during his first 6 weeks on the job.

This idea, which goes by the name of functional - trait ecology, had been part of his lab work for years but had always felt academic and abstract, says Duffy, now director of the Smithsonian Institution's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network in Washington DC.

Lead author Brian Wansink, PhD director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab and author of Slim by Design concludes, «Evoking fear may seem like a good way to get your message across but this study shows that, in fact, the opposite is true — telling the public that a behavior will help them be healthier and happier is actually more effective.»

In this course, which was developed by the Los Angeles / Orange County Biotech Center and implemented at Pasadena City College, the instructor becomes the lab director and the students become employees producing the intellectual property of the «company.»

The ceremony was held at the Lab's 9/11 memorial and featured remarks by Brookhaven Laboratory Director Doon Gibbs, U.S. Department of Energy Brookhaven Site Office Manager Frank Crescenzo, and Brookhaven Lab Fire Rescue Chief Tim Kelly.

With two of the four experts remaining in her Washington office overlooking the national mall, Miller picked up the phone and called the lab's director, Charles McMillan, at his own office on the idyllic Los Alamos campus in the New Mexico mountains, where nuclear weapons work is financed by a federal payment exceeding $ 2 billion a year.

In the early 1980s, Eaves, the founding director of the British Columbia Cancer Agency's Terry Fox Laboratory, started buying up the best fetal calf serum by the bucket - full, bringing it to his lab, and rigorously testing it for its ability to support the growth of hematopoietic stem cells.

GMI stars in National Geographic TV Special «Lincoln's Secret Killer» which premiered on President's Day, 2011 «Lincoln's Secret Killer,» a documentary prepared by National Geographic, premiered on Monday, February 21, at 10:00 pm on The National Geographic Channel, featuring Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Hardis Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute and GMI's Director of the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, and members of her lab, Mohammed S. Orloff, PhD, Project Scientist, and Todd Romigh, MS, Lab Managlab, Mohammed S. Orloff, PhD, Project Scientist, and Todd Romigh, MS, Lab ManagLab Manager.

A team led by Sekar Kathiresan — founder of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, institute member and co-director of the Medical and Populations Genetics Program at the Broad Institute, and director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital — and Rajat Gupta, a postdoctoral research fellow in Kathiresan's lab, recently revisited this spot in the genome to map it and determine the mechanisms by which one DNA variant could affect so many disorders.

During that summer, he joined the lab of Deepak Srivastava, MD, director of the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease, where he was mentored by Yvanka de Soysa, a graduate student in Srivastava's lab.

The SR - Tiget Clinical Lab reports directly to the Institute Director Luigi Naldini and is coordinated by Stefano Zancan; it is not part of the CRU, but it's a fundamental partner.

Added James Symons, Associate Laboratory Director for Physical Sciences: «This is a project with potentially transformational impact that is really enabled by having cross-disciplinary scientific expertise ⎯ in soil biology, soil physics, soil chemistry, geophysics, nuclear physics ⎯ all in one location at Berkeley Lab.»

The new facility will be used by JCAP to research artificial photosynthesis and its role in generating an alternative solar - based fuel source, according to Heinz Frei, acting director of the northern division of the center, which is split between the Berkeley lab and the California Institute of Technology.

But NNSA labs like LLNL and LANL have been able to meet this responsibility by partnering on focused experiments to validate complex computer models that inform the judgment of researchers and ultimately the laboratory directors, playing a key role in developing the annual letter to the president regarding the current state of the stockpile.

The Wistar Institute was awarded a $ 1,494,972 grant by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to advance a DNA - based vaccine candidate for protection against malarial infection utilizing a synthetic DNA platform created in the lab of David B. Weiner, Ph.D., executive vice president, director of the Vaccine & Immunotherapy Center at The Wistar Institute and the W.W. Smith Charitable Trust Professor in Cancer Research.