Sentences with phrase «chemistry labs for»

Attendees at the astrobiology meeting in Arizona showcased an assortment of high - tech devices for next - generation exploration, ranging from microfluidic «life analyzers» and integrated nucleic acid extractors for studying «Martian metagenomics» to exquisitely sensitive, miniaturized organic chemistry labs for spotting tantalizing carbon compounds and minerals at microscopic scales.

Hanging around the chemistry labs for too long (I blame the NMR magnetic field) resulted in a switch of research topics to theoretical chemistry, which I was happy to do until the funding ran dry.

I have very clear memories of walking into a chemistry lab for the first time aged 11, the age my daughter is now.

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Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest.

ReactIR, Particle Track and Particle Vision enable understanding of reaction progression, mechanisms, kinetics, and particle characterisation in situ and in real - time for batch and flow chemistry in lab and plant environments.

Buffalo Grove High School will receive about $ 1.8 million for repairs, including completion of athletic and physical education locker room renovations and creation of a chemistry - physics lab from two classrooms.

In addition, if the homeschool curriculum takes a particular approach, such as being literature or text - based, it may not be the best approach for teaching biology or chemistry, which are lab - based sciences.

She also asked for $ 285,000 to upgrade the college's Women's Center, $ 475,000 to renovate York's chemistry labs, $ 315,000 for the school's geo - science monitoring project and funding for the second phase of the project to repair and build the college's soccer field, which is currently «unusable.»

Graduate students may be greener than postdoctoral researchers or lab technicians, but they are still a hot commodity, says David Meyer, a professor of biological chemistry at the University of California at Los Angeles and the senior associate dean of graduate studies for the School of Medicine.

Next fall I will get my own lab and begin recruiting students for a research program in synthetic organic chemistry.

For the next few months — in between lab work, TA - ing, and so on — I researched the biographies of all of the African Americans who had earned doctorates in chemistry from Ohio State.

RECIPE FOR DISASTER Despite the lab mouse's much greater weight, chemistry gives this centipede the decisive advantage.

«Having the structure of the full - length Zika NS1 provides new information that can help guide the design of a potential vaccine or antiviral drugs,» said senior author Janet Smith, director of the Center for Structural Biology at the U-M Life Sciences Institute, where her lab is located, and professor of biological chemistry at the U-M Medical School.

As an undergraduate, I took part in the NIH's Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (MBRS) and actually worked in a biochemistry lab for a while, as well as taking a biochemistry class — the first chemistry class that really made sense to me.

What the rover can do is detect the building blocks for those cells with its portable chemistry lab, Sample Analysis at Mars.

With its sophisticated on - board chemistry lab, Curiosity is hunting for more robust signs of habitability, including organic compounds — the carbon - based building blocks of life as we know it.

For years, scientists have been working to develop «labs on a chip,» portable devices that would perform complex analyses usually only possible in a chemistry laboratory.

Thomas Borch, professor of soil and crop sciences with joint appointments in chemistry and civil and environmental engineering, and Amrita Bhattacharyya, a former postdoctoral researcher in Borch's lab, offer evidence for a new origin story for the uranium trapped underground in roll fronts.

Three atom - thick layers of molybdenum disulfide were cooked up in the lab of Jiwoong Park, associate professor of chemistry and chemical biology and member of the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science.

By the end of my second year, however, I realized that studying a chemical process or molecule in a lab was not for me, so graduate work in chemistry was out of the question.

The institution has long been regarded highly for its studies in physics, computer sciences and chemistry, though years of underfunding had left the university short of lab and classroom space.

Several students in Flaherty's lab are currently exploring different ways of «coupling this chemistry directly with reactions that use hydrogen peroxide for green oxidations within very short length scales,» that is, micrometers away, Flaherty said.

Now the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has brought felony charges against U.C.L.A. chemistry professor Patrick Harran, the head of Sangji's lab, and the Regents of the University of California for violations of safety regulations resulting in her death.

«These are initial necessary steps in taking carbon nanotubes from the chemistry lab to a real environment,» said Supratik Guha, director of physical sciences for IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center and a world leader in CNT research.

They agreed to «accept responsibility for the conditions under which the laboratory was operated,» to create a law school scholarship in Sheri's name and to establish, in all the chemistry labs on all of the system's 10 campuses, an extensive program of required safety training and compliance for all lab workers.

The laboratories at Rothera are very well equipped with, for example, analytical chemistry and microbiology labs, a controlled environment room, an aquarium, and a modern diving and boating facility.

A Los Angeles judge has entered not guilty pleas for University of California, Los Angeles, chemistry professor Patrick Harran on four felony counts arising from the death of lab assistant Sheri Sangji.

The centre will host M.D. / Ph.D. students and boast a 30 - strong medical chemistry unit and incubator labs for spinoff companies exploiting research developments.

«In our lab at UMD we have been developing unique carbon nanomaterials and chemistry but it was not until Gardea approached us did we become aware of the intriguing challenge and opportunity for reconfigurable composite materials,» said Dr. YuHuang Wang, professor of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Maryland.

EH&S representatives are becoming involved in hiring decisions and participated in lab renovation planning for a new chemistry professor this year.

«Although I can now say it is easy, at the beginning when I joined this project, I struggled a lot to synthesize and isolate the sugar compounds, because I was not exactly an expert in sugar chemistry, and it was a new research field for me,» says Jiao Jiao, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kenichiro Itami's lab at ITbM, Nagoya University.

Chemical compounds needed for the study were not commercially available, said Felix Fischer, an associate professor of chemistry at UC Berkeley who also contributed to the study, so his lab prepared the samples.

CBCS facilities comprise compound handling labs (hosting the SciLifeLab compound collection of ca 200,000 molecules), screening labs (microtiter format liquid handling robotics and a wide range of plate readers), and chemistry labs (equipment and instrumentation for organic chemistry synthesis and analysis).

Enabled by the chemistry provided by Nate Jui in the Buchwald lab at MIT, Tardiff found that the compound was working by restoring functions mediated by a cellular protein critical for trafficking that was previously thought to be «undruggable.»

«He is a leader in surface chemistry and dynamics, catalysis and photo - assisted surface reactions, knows the national lab system from working with Los Alamos and Sandia in New Mexico for many years, and for a decade (1991 - 02) he directed a major National Science Foundation - supported research center in Austin,» UT's Technology Center for Synthesis, Growth, and Analysis of Electronic Materials.

Raised on the knee of science — her father taught her and her two brothers from a young age about geology, physics, and natural history — Alice Ting now stands firmly on her own two feet among the faculty at MIT's Chemistry Department, where her objective is to «simultaneously harness the power of genetics and the power of chemistry» using new technologies developed in her lab for imaging protein trafficking, protein - protein interactions, and enzymatic activity.

Phoenix's detection was made by performing chemistry experiments directly on martian soil, and it was made by two different instruments: TEGA, which heated soil samples and sniffed for released gases, and MECA - WCL, a wet chemistry lab.

Our vision for sustainable chemical sciences instruction includes: Green chemistry instruction in our undergraduate lab courses; making sustainability and green chemistry a key part of graduate training; offering executive education programs in sustainable chemical practice to retrain the installed base of chemists and chemical engineers.

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.»

In a paper published in Chemical Science, an open access journal of the Royal Society of Chemistry, researchers in the lab of Ellen Matson, assistant professor of chemistry, describe modifying a metal - oxide cluster, which has promising electroactive properties, so that it is nearly twice as effective as the unmodified cluster for electrochemical energy storage in a redox flow battery.

She joined Southern Research at a time when there were few jobs for female chemists in Birmingham, and most industrial chemistry labs didn't even have a women's restroom.

PhD student Hanan Alwaseem, in the lab of Rudi Fasan, associate professor of chemistry, demonstrates how she produces analogs of a new compound the lab has developed as a potential treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.

«These encouraging results should serve as a spark for another advancement in organic synthesis,» says K. C. Nicolaou, a synthetic chemist at Rice University, adding that Chematica could increase speed and productivity in chemistry labs, especially if paired with automated synthesis machines.

Organic chemistry is the science of substances that contain both carbon and hydrogen, and many are made in the lab as molecularly exact matches for original ingredients that were pulled up from the earth.

Your body is a complex chemistry lab and for good hormone balance you need this chemistry to be humming along.

There are instances when conventional medicine is like a miracle, but for the one in five people suffering from autoimmune disease such as Hashimoto's hypothyroidism (a disease in which the immune system attacks and destroys tissue in the body or brain), and countless others suffering from undiagnosed autoimmunity, chronic inflammation, severe pain, environmentally induced illnesses, food sensitivities, chronic viral, bacterial, or parasitic infections, brain chemistry imbalances, hormonal imbalances, hair loss, unexplained weight gain, and more — being told your lab tests are fine and you simply need an antidepressant can feel like a kick in the groin.

A solar - panel system generates enough electricity to power 24 classrooms, a courtyard greenhouse shelters vegetables and native prairie Illinois grass, a small «living wall» of plants filters air and water in a freshman biology classroom, and a handcrafted biodiesel production facility provides a living lab for chemistry students and fuel for one of Bloom's minibuses.

For example, there's a chemistry lab where students calculate the calorie content of food by setting it alight.

Teachers complained of out - of - control students: The city's Ballou High School was closed for a 35 - day cleanup after students stole chemistry - lab thermometers and scattered the mercury around hallways.