Sentences with phrase «by chemistry professor»

A research team led by chemistry professor William Jones has developed a series of reactions that results in the selective conversion of ethanol to butanol, without producing unwanted byproducts.

The new study — now published in the journal Cell Chemical Biology — was led by chemistry professor Amy Howell, from the University of Connecticut in Mansfield.

Chemists at the University of Illinois, led by chemistry professor and medical doctor Martin D. Burke, built the machine to assemble complex small molecules at the click of a mouse, like a 3 - D printer at the molecular level.

Not exact matches

«The consumer market that was designated in the design of film chemistry was that of a lighter skinned market,» explains Lorna Roth, a professor at Concordia University in Montreal, in this video produced by Vox.

«If they could figure out a way to streamline, it would be a lot better,» said Kim Janda, a professor of chemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who leads a team of researchers developing a vaccine that would prevent fentanyl overdoses by keeping the drug from reaching the brain.

Perhaps the best counter-analysis can be found here, on the PBS Frontline website, from the independent «virtual» news organization TehranBureau, and written by MUHAMMAD SAHIMI, a USC chemistry professor who has been writing about Iran, its nuclear program and its domestic developments for many years....

It was identified that the Shroud of Turin's image was created by an extremely powerful flash of light, so powerful that Luigi Garlaschelli, a professor of chemistry at Pavia University, described it as unearthly, «The implications are... that the image was formed by a burst of UV energy so intense it could only have been supernatural.»

The program was created by Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor Isiah M. Warner, a former chair of the chemistry department at LSU who is now vice chancellor of the University's Office of Strategic Initiatives.

He was a chemistry professor who gave back to the community by offering local students the ability to apply their math aptitude in the lab.

«Libby's method remained the only way to measure carbon - 14 in samples for several decades and was long considered the most accurate means of dating by carbon decay,» said David Mazziotti, a UChicago chemistry professor who submitted the formal nomination of the site as a historic chemical landmark to the American Chemical Society.

Led by Illinois chemistry professor M. Christina White, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in collaboration with researchers at Pfizer Global Research and Development detailed the new reactivity of the catalysts in the journal Nature.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

A new study by Robert Stahelin, an adjunct associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend, as well as a member of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health, investigates how the most abundant protein that composes the Ebola virus, VP 40, mediates replication of a new viral particle.

«The bactericidal mechanism of ODLs and the fact that they bind to a site on the ribosome not exploited by any known antibiotic are very strong indicators that ODLs have the potential to treat infections that are unresponsive to other antibiotics,» said Mankin, who is also professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy.

I had a professor who used to begin class by reading his favorite sections from the undergraduate newspaper, and one day he laughed at a headline about a grad student who'd blown himself up in the chemistry lab.

«The batteries last for about 5,000 recharge cycles, giving them an estimated 15 - year lifespan,» said Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and corresponding author of a paper describing the new batteries that was published online by the Journal of the Electrochemical Society on June 20.

A team led by Latha Venkataraman, professor of applied physics and chemistry at Columbia Engineering and Xavier Roy, assistant professor of chemistry (Arts & Sciences), published a study today in Nature Nanotechnology that is the first to reproducibly demonstrate current blockade — the ability to switch a device from the insulating to the conducting state where charge is added and removed one electron at a time — using atomically precise molecular clusters at room temperature.

Men dominate S&E professorships, regardless of field and race.10 Among the top 50 universities in chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, and engineering, at least 69 % (most times this number is much higher) of the professors are men, according to a report recently released by University of Oklahoma chemistry professor Dr. Donna Nelson.9 The lack of female professors was far greater among minority women.9 Although the number of master's degrees and doctorates increased for every racial and gender category, except for white males, 1 white — and, to a lesser extent, Asian — men constituted the clear majority of S&E graduate and faculty positions between 1990 and 1999.9

ETH researchers led by Afyon and Reinhard Nesper, professor emeritus of chemistry, have now made a discovery.

Charles Rice, principal investigator and professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, OU College of Arts and Sciences, with team members Robert Cichewicz and Daniel Glatzhofer, both OU chemistry professors, has been able to invigorate older drugs from the penicillin family by combining them with BPEI.

Douglas Thomas, associate professor of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy at UIC, and co-workers discovered that nitric oxide plays an important role in epigenetics — heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence.

Now, a team of scientists led by University of Wisconsin - Madison chemistry professor John Berry reports an advance that freezes one step of the process long enough to offer researchers a glimpse into the finer mechanism.

But new research by Leila Deravi, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern, brings us a step closer.

But I still enjoy the rationale given by my professor, F.C. Tompkins of Imperial College London: «The demon must eat to do the work, eating is essentially converting glucose to CO2 and H2O plus heat, and that, gentlemen [he always ignored the two women in the chemistry class of 1957 - 1960], generates entropy: QED.»

The study, said George V. Nazin, a professor of physical chemistry, modeled the behavior often observed in carbon nanotube - based electronic devices, where electronic traps are induced by stochastic external charges in the immediate vicinity of the nanotubes.

The research was carried out by experts in synthetic and theoretical chemistry, materials and electron microscopy and builds on Professor Khlobystov's concept of carbon nano test tubes (World's tiniest test tubes, Guinness Book of World Records 2005), where the nanotube acts as a container for molecules.

«Often things go wrong right away when stem or therapeutic cells are injected into the body because some cells can migrate, while other dying cells are eaten by the body and expelled,» says Xiao - an Zhang, an assistant professor of chemistry at U of T Scarborough.

«In essence,» said co-author Darren W. Johnson, a professor of chemistry, «we can prepare one type of nanoscale cluster compound, and then step - by - step substitute out the individual metal atoms to make new clusters that can not be made by direct methods.

The model also offers a solution to a paradox that has perplexed researchers for decades and was first defined at Princeton in 1948 by the late chemistry professor Walter Kauzmann.

Using an innovative inorganic synthesis technique, an interdisciplinary team led by Dr. O'Brien, associate professor of chemistry at The City College and a member of the CUNY Energy Institute at CCNY, prepared a mineral previously unknown in nature.

But a process invented by Russell Chianelli, Ph.D., a chemistry professor at The University of Texas at El Paso, shows how landfills can up their methane production to turn a profit.

The researchers, led by Yale chemistry professor Mark Johnson, report their discovery in the Dec. 1 edition of the journal Science.

May began three years ago by selecting a fresh expert, Thorburn Burns, a professor of chemistry at Queen's University, Belfast, who was «independent» in the sense that he had not previously been involved with the Maguire case.

In an article published online on Sept. 14 in Nature Chemical Biology, the group, led by Liu, an assistant professor of chemistry within Pitt's Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, has discovered the first enzyme that can accomplish this feat.

In the study led by Judith Campbell, professor of chemistry and biology at Caltech, the researchers investigated the relationship between two genes — FANCD2 and DNA2 — both known to play roles in fixing broken or damaged strands of DNA within a cell, called DNA repair.

«The chemistry of these materials looks completely different but they're connected on a profound level by their physics,» said Robert Cava, the Russell Wellman Moore professor of chemistry and corresponding author on the work published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

But that may not be true, according to a team of scientists led by University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (U.N.C.) chemistry professor Joseph DeSimone.

«In our research, we were able to create an entirely recombinant protein - based light - sensitive hydrogels by covalently assembling the CarHC photoreceptor proteins using genetically encoded SpyTag - SpyCatcher chemistry,» said Fei Sun, author of the paper and assistant professor at HKUST's department of chemical and biomolecular engineering.

«We continue to be fascinated by the functions of bacterial CRISPR systems and how mechanistic understanding leads to opportunities for new technologies,» said Doudna, a professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

The properties of supercooled water are important for understanding basic processes during cryoprotection, which is the preservation of tissue or cells by liquid nitrogen so they can be thawed without damaged, said Wang, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

«We can even tune the temperature higher or lower depending on how many particles we put in or what type of polymer materials we choose,» said Bao, who is also a professor, by courtesy, of chemistry and of materials science and engineering.

The triazoles were synthesized using click chemistry — a method developed by TSRI Professor and Nobel laureate K. Barry Sharpless in the mid-1990s.

The study, published in Nature, was led by Xiangfeng Duan, UCLA professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Yu Huang, UCLA professor of materials science and engineering at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering.

By building a deep understanding of the chemistry of single - layer graphene and a few layer graphene, I am confident that many new applications of chemically functionalized graphenes could be possible, in electronics, photonics, optoelectronics, sensors, composites, and other areas,» notes Rodney Ruoff, corresponding author of this paper, CMCM director, and UNIST Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).

Starting in 2007, for example, Fan began testing an anti-cancer drug called PAC - 1 (developed by U. of I. chemistry professor Paul Hergenrother) in pet dogs with naturally occurring lymphomas and osteosarcomas.

A team led by Latha Venkataraman, professor of applied physics and chemistry at Columbia Engineeringand Xavier Roy, assistant professor of chemistry (Arts & Sciences), published a study (DOI 10.1038 / nnano.2017.156) today in Nature Nanotechnology that is the first to reproducibly demonstrate current blockade — the ability to switch a device from the insulating to the conducting state where charge is added and removed one electron at a time — using atomically precise molecular clusters at room temperature.

Previous groundbreaking work by Chuan He, PhD, professor of chemistry, biochemistry and molecular biology, and investigator at Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Chicago, demonstrated that reversible methylation exists for messenger RNA to control gene expression.

The properties of supercooled water are important for understanding basic processes during cryoprotection, which is the preservation of tissue or cells by liquid nitrogen so they can be thawed without damage, said Wang, an associate professor in the department of chemistry and biochemistry in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences.

The team, led by Ashleigh Theberge, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, will create new analytical chemistry and engineering tools that pull out key molecules from a mix of molecular noise in order to selectively «listen» to molecular signals produced by specific fungi, bacteria, or human cells.

But Brian Shoichet, co-senior author on the Nature paper and professor in the department of pharmaceutical chemistry at the University of California, San Francisco, says that they had another requirement, too, which was met by only a tiny subset of those molecules.