Sentences with phrase «elegans research»

To that end, we will work to openly disseminate our protocols, hardware, and software to the C. elegans research community.

Not exact matches

The research was performed on C. elegans, tiny roundworms that typically live an average of two weeks.

Nath is studying sleep in the worm Caenorhabditis elegans, but whenever he presented his work at research conferences, other scientists scoffed at the idea that such a simple animal could sleep.

When Gordon Lithgow at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, California, and colleagues grew the soil - dwelling nematode Caenorhabditis elegans in agar plates soaked in thioflavin T — a dye used to visualise clusters of amyloid beta protein — they found that the worms lived 30 to 70 per cent longer than average.

«C. elegans is a powerful tool for biological research because it shares many of the same anatomic and cell functions as humans, and their short lifespan (average 17 days) enables us to study genes and measure cell traits in just two to three weeks.»

«Honestly, I thought I should have gotten in a while ago,» says Cynthia Kenyon of the University of California at San Francisco, whose two decades of research since the 1980s on the developmental biology of the nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans finally earned her a place in the National Academy.

Tatar's research, along with simultaneous independent work by Linda Partridge of University College London, U.K., and her colleagues, demonstrated that an insulin - like signaling pathway controls diapause and aging in flies — similar to what had already been found in the roundworm Caenorhabiditis elegans (see «Growing Old Together»).

Nematocida parisii, a newly discovered species of the protozoan parasites known as microsporidia, lives in the intestines of C. elegans, a small roundworm commonly used for research.

Adam's creators plan to extend the robot's investigations from yeast to the worm Caenorhabditis elegans; their newer robot, Eve, will research malaria drugs.

To study how splicing might affect aging, the researchers looked to Caenorhabditis elegans, a species of roundworm that's often used as a precursor to human tests in biological research, thanks to it having a genome very similar to ours.

This year the organizers overtly recognized the history of our biomedical research niche in which C. elegans nematodes are used as a model organism (see our SAGE blog on how C. elegans models are used to study aging).

Bargmann will split her presentation between her work at CZI and her own research at Rockefeller University in New York, where she studies C. elegans to unravel the mysteries of nervous system signaling and behavior.

Every year, VerMidi gathers the french research community using the model nematode C. elegans.

The research topic was a study of the auxin - inducible degradation (AID) system in the germlines of C. elegans.

Konermann said she is already aware of research groups making use of the new optogenetic tools in C. elegans and in Plasmodium.

In particular, research with the roundworm C. elegans, aided by its short lifespan and easily manipulated genetics, has identified a number of pathways that regulate aging, such as insulin / insulin - like signaling, dietary restriction, heat shock resistance, and reproductive and sensory signaling pathways.

In her research she uses C. elegans and mammalian cells to study dense core vesicle trafficking and Gq signaling in neurons.

In particular, research with the roundworm C. elegans, aided by its short lifespan and easily manipulated genetics, has identified a number of pathways that regulate... >> MORE

C. elegans is a lab - friendly model species for research on how chemical signals affect development and behavior.

Only one animal's full connectome has been constructed thus far: the roundworm C. elegans, which has a mere 302 neurons and serves as the model for research and data sharing in the field.

Our work will not only address fundamental questions about the mechanisms of aging, but also provide a platform to greatly accelerate C. elegans aging research.

Dr. Falk is also PI of an NIH, pharma, and philanthropic funded translational research laboratory group at CHOP that investigates the causes and global metabolic consequences of mitochondrial disease, as well as targeted therapies, in C. elegans, zebrafish, mouse, and human tissue models of genetic - based respiratory chain dysfunction, and directs multiple clinical treatment trials in mitochondrial disease patients.

The goal of modENCODE was to create a comprehensive catalog of functional elements in the Drosophila melanogaster (fruit fly) and Caenorhabditis elegans (worm) genomes and to ensure those data are freely available to the biomedical research community at www.modencode.org.

To accommodate the ever increasing amount and complexity of research data, WormBase continues to advance its practices on data acquisition, curation and retrieval to most effectively deliver comprehensive knowledge about Caenorhabditis elegans, and genomic information about other nematodes and parasitic flatworms.

Rogers studies the molecular mechanisms underlying aging in C. elegans, a tiny, soil - dwelling roundworm that is a favorite animal model in aging research because its short lifespan allows scientists to quickly assess the effect of anti-aging interventions and because it shares many of its genes with humans.

Projects focus on a research question in functional genomics and use a variety of comparative models such as such as zebrafish, fruit flies, axolotl, and C. elegans.

In his research, Schroeder uses C. elegans, an important model system for human disease, to investigate how novel cell metabolism products function as signals between individuals and within cells.