Sentences with phrase «evolutionary biology research»
All four mouse lines were viable and fertile, which shocked the genomics and evolutionary biology research communities who thought these enhancers were critical for life since they have been so perfectly conserved.
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It's been cited more than 34,000 times over the years and has become a cornerstone of molecular evolutionary biology research.
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As he researched his subject, exploring economics, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, Buchholtz became convinced that much of the modern happiness project was a crock — not just unhelpful economically, but unhealthy and unnatural.
«We found that instead of recent wolves being closest to domestic dogs, ancient European wolves were directly related to them,» said Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in UCLA's College of Letters and Science and senior author of the research.
He's the wrong person to debate the intricacies of evolutionary theory, as he has no degree in biology, and never worked as a research scientist in biology.
His John Templeton Foundation (est. 1987) supports scientific research at top universities in such fields as theoretical physics, cosmology and evolutionary biology, and also supports informed dialogue between scientists and theologians.
Contemporary research in genetics and evolutionary biology often implicitlymakes use of this concept.
When people are taunting men of science with decades of research behind them, quoting a 6,000 year old book as «proof» of why big bang cosmology, immunology, evolutionary biology, particle physics and a myriad of technologies are «wrong»?
To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolutEvolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolutevolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.
His research methods included evolutionary biology, developmental psychology, cognitive science, control systems theory and ethology.
In these pages, I review research from a wide range of fields — including anthropology, medicine, psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience.
For Molly Schumer, a postdoctoral fellow in genetics and evolutionary biology at Harvard Medical School, the fellowship will help fund her research on how evolutionary forces affect our genes, focusing in particular on a persistent trait that can cause melanoma in swordtail fish.
Genomic research and the field of systematic biology have since refined this sorting, but Spiegel argues outdated ideas continue to distort evolutionary relationships among organisms.
She did field work for her Ph.D. in evolutionary biology, which gave her insight into the nature of much of the research done in sub-Saharan Africa.
Evolutionary biology is a small enough scientific specialty to permit the tracking of the entire research output over a period of decades.
The study published in the Biology Letters journal is part of a research project on human evolutionary biology led by Academy Professor Virpi Lummaa.
The lead authors are Clare Marsden, a UCLA assistant project scientist in Lohmueller's research group, and Diego Ortega - Del Vecchyo, a UCLA graduate student in Lohmueller's research group; co-authors include Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College.
New research led by the University of Bristol has resolved evolutionary biology's most - heated debate, revealing it is the morphologically simple sponges, rather than the anatomically complex comb jellies, which represent the oldest lineage of living animals.
«It's been known for a long time that these kinds of slips occur, and they are viewed as the Barnum and Bailey of evolution,» said the study's senior researcher Ehad Abouheif, Canada research chair in evolutionary developmental biology at McGill University.
«This is a remarkable case of extreme degeneration of an animal body plan,» said Paulyn Cartwright, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU and principal investigator on the research project.
A research team at the University of Texas at Arlington led by assistant professor of biology Todd Castoe has been exploring the genomes of snakes and lizards to answer critical questions about these creatures» evolutionary history.
The plenary address titled «Punctuated Equilibrium Meets Cancer: Big Promise Requires Big Change» will draw from evolutionary biology's punctuated equilibrium theory to set out why stable systems such as cancer research sometimes require swift and fundamental change to advance.
He just launched a new research project that will examine understandings of gender within evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology.
Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the potential ecological impacts of synthetic biology, a field that could push beyond incremental changes to create organisms that transcend common evolutionary pathways.
But according to Halberg, the Norwegian research on blue tits deviates even further from traditional thinking within evolutionary biology than Hrdy's theories do.
«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.
As an undergraduate student in biology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Marcy came under the wing of evolutionary biologist Elizabeth Hadly, whose outreach work made Marcy keenly aware of the value of doing more than just research.
As for next research steps, the investigators will seek to exploit the SRY database and its evolutionary linkages to other SOX transcription factors to explore applications to stem - cell biology and cancer.
She was accepted as a doctoral student there and began a research career in which she was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants.
«What our frequency effect allows us to do is identify... ultraconserved linguistic elements,» says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biology professor at Reading, about his research.
Gray is concerned that, in evolutionary biology as in many other basic scientific disciplines, challenging times may lie ahead as financial support for basic research tightens.
It is an exciting time for evolutionary biology and, after 3 decades of scientific research, Gray's enthusiasm is unabated.
Given Westendorp's research on evolutionary biology and the fertility - survival tradeoff, parenting takes on a different light.
Gray is professor and head of the department of biochemistry and molecular biology at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, a fellow in the evolutionary biology program at the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR), and holder of the Canada Research Chair in Genomics and Genome Evolution.
The research reveals how natural biology, through evolutionary experimentation, can teach us new things about how animals naturally cope with conditions that would cause disease in humans.
His research foci include the social insects honey bees, bumble bees and stingless bees, the unique biology of which can be used as models to decipher the genetic fundaments of environmental interaction and evolutionary innovation.
His research interests are broad, covering conservation and evolutionary biology of insects, biodiversity and land use, and interdisciplinary cooperation and project co-ordination in biodiversity.
The research was a collaboration among Lynch Alfaro; Michael Alfaro, a UCLA associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; and an international team of primatologists.
But in a new study published online in Nature Genetics, a research team led by J.J. Emerson, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at the Ayala School of Biological Sciences, applies new methods of genome analysis to identify these complex mutations with unprecedented resolution.
Separate research by Daniel Rubenstein, a Princeton University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and a co-author of the Open Science paper, and Princeton undergraduate Damaris Iriondo strongly suggests that boldly striped zebras have external body temperatures about five degrees Fahrenheit cooler than other animals of the same size — like antelopes — that do not have stripes but live in the same areas.
Each of the working groups is responsible for developing a proposal for a set of genomes to sequence that would advance knowledge in one of three important scientific areas: identifying areas in genetic research where the application of high - throughput sequencing resources would rapidly lead to significant medical advances; understanding of the human genome; and understanding the evolutionary biology of genomes.
Franziska Michor (Dana - Farber Cancer Institute)-- Research done at the computational biology and bioinformatics laboratory of Dr. Michor has led to the first clinical trials based on the evolutionary mathematical modeling of cancer.
Our research interests lie in the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
His main responsibilities are the development of novel software tools and algorithms for the Virus Pathogen Resource (ViPR) and Influenza Research Database (IRD), as well as research on the comparative evolutionary genomics and systems biology of Research Database (IRD), as well as research on the comparative evolutionary genomics and systems biology of research on the comparative evolutionary genomics and systems biology of viruses.
In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and biomedical engineering.
Research interests: Evolutionary developmental biology; physical anthropology including primate evolutionary morphology with a focus on limb and axial skeletal biology, growth, andEvolutionary developmental biology; physical anthropology including primate evolutionary morphology with a focus on limb and axial skeletal biology, growth, andevolutionary morphology with a focus on limb and axial skeletal biology, growth, and development
Research interests: evolutionary anthropology, behavioral ecology, conservation biology, GIS, tropical forest and afroalpine grassland ecology
Founded by J. Craig Venter, Ph.D., the JCVI is home to approximately 300 scientists and staff with expertise in human and evolutionary biology, genetics, bioinformatics / informatics, information technology, high - throughput DNA sequencing, genomic and environmental policy research, and public education in science.
Research interests: The biology of pregnancy, Evolution of genes X environment interactions, Mammalian phylogenetics, Rates of nucleotide sequence evolution, The evolution of the brain, Primate evolutionary genetics
Even today, the general public, and many scientists, are not aware of decades of research in evolutionary science, molecular biology and genome sequencing which provide alternative answers to how novel organisms have originated in the long history of life on earth.