Sentences with phrase «comparative biology»

This is something that we in the developmental and scientific community refer to as comparative biology — comparing different systems to understand an aspect of biology.

Comparative biology of tissue repair, regeneration, and aging.

Sponsorship Officer and Website Coordinator: Peter Olson Location: United Kingdom Institute: Natural History Museum, London Research Interests: Development, genomics and comparative biology of flatworms; understanding the evolution of parasitism and Neglected Tropical Diseases through investigations of parasites in the context of their natural animal affinities.

«There are many examples of temporarily misplaced taxa in paleontological history, including ferns that were once thought to be sponges and lungfish teeth thought to be fungi,» said the lead author, Allison Bronson, a comparative biology Ph.D. - degree student in the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School.

«In the Cretaceous amber we examine, the ants and termites represent the earliest branches of each evolutionary tree, and the species are wildly different from what their modern relatives look like today,» said co-author Phillip Barden, a recent graduate of the comparative biology doctoral program at the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at Rutgers University.

Why organisms age differently — the comparative biology of aging — is a growing fascination for scientists.

It is a large field comprised of professionals from many scientific and educational disciplines such as anatomy, animal science, comparative biology, engineering, environmental science, ethics, genetics, microbiology, pharmacology, physiology, and toxicology.

Meanwhile, tuning in to other research themes, Finch has delved into the comparative biology of aging, a topic he surveyed in detail in his 1990 book, Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome, a 922 - page tome.

Jason and Ousmane also attended the 1st conference on multicellular development in fungi where Ousmane presented his work on the Neolecta genome and comparative biology of the Taphrinomycotina fungi.

This work combines both comparative biology and immunomodulation to investigate the potential for regeneration in a range of genetic mouse models.

It introduces students to the fundamentals of comparative biology, evolutionary theory, and genetics as it relates to their everyday lives — how they view the diversity of people around them.

Lastly, we have an extensive list of links regarding computational biology, genomics, gerontology, and comparative biology.