Sentences with phrase «first as a biologist»

Following a postdoctoral fellowship in the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Dr. Wei stayed on at NIH, first as a biologist and currently as a staff scientist, in the Pediatric Oncology Branch of the National Cancer Institute.

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Craig Venter, a biologist and entrepreneur as well as one of the first people to map the human genome, wants to make 100 the new 60.

As a biologist I have long been immensely impressed by and beholden to Whitehead's philosophy of organism (Process and Reality), in that it seems to me that he is the first great philosopher who really took trouble to comprehend the biological developments of his time.

However, the first workers in this field, such as Haldane and Fisher from the theoretical point of view, and biologists such as Timofeef - Ressovsky, Dubinin and others, in practical field investigations, were still thinking mainly in terms of individual genes.

As a biologist that critically reviews scientific literature and sincerely values objectivity, I have been seriously investigating the details of breastfeeding in recent weeks (our first child is on the way shortly).

As the first woman and first biologist to serve as president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004 - 2012), Hockfield highlighted the importance of building diversity all along the talent pipelinAs the first woman and first biologist to serve as president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004 - 2012), Hockfield highlighted the importance of building diversity all along the talent pipelinas president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2004 - 2012), Hockfield highlighted the importance of building diversity all along the talent pipeline.

Biologist E. O. Wilson first put forward this idea of kin selection as an explanation for homosexuality in 1978, but for some time now it has been considered an unlikely scenario.

Using the fossil record as a guide, a research team led by Yale paleontologist and developmental biologist Bhart - Anjan S. Bhullar and Harvard developmental biologist Arhat Abzhanov conducted the first successful reversion of a bird's skull features.

Susan Hockfield is well known for her role in launching the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the MIT Energy Initiative, while she served as the research university's first female and first biologist president.

The interdisciplinary project team is made up of eco - and human toxicologists, physicists, chemists and biologists, and they have just managed to take their first major step forward in achieving their goal: they have developed a method for testing a variety of environmental samples such as river water, animal tissue, or human urine and blood that can detect nanomaterials at a concentration level of nanogram per liter (ppb — parts per billion).

As a biologist, I wouldn't expect to get past the first two sentences of a physics paper.

And with his boss, Monell director Gary Beauchamp, he isdeveloping the idea of the odor print: the notion, first proposed bythe late biologist Lewis Thomas more than 25 years ago, that body odorbears a signature of immune - system proteins as unique as a face or afingerprint.

When European biologists first encountered them during the 18th century, they viewed them as ridiculous - looking, oddball, and hopelessly antiquated.

«We are now able to draw a tree of life for the first time that includes viruses as their own branch,» says Patrick Forterre, a molecular biologist at the University of Paris - Sud.

But so far this year, field biologists have turned up new species from two branches of primates, as well as new fossils of what may have been the first hominid.

Evolutionary biologist Trine Bilde at Aarhus University in Denmark spearheaded the first genome project as part of her research into the boom and bust lives of the African social velvet spider, Stegodyphus mimosarum.

First, growing protein crystals, as many molecular biologists will say, is more an art than a science.

The early studies helped Duffy determine that the microscopic aquatic parasite she first observed as a graduate student, and which her research team had recently collected in more than a dozen southeast Michigan lakes, is the same fungus - like organism that a French biologist first described in 1903.

In the 1970s, when biologists first glimpsed the landscape of human genes, they saw that the small pieces of DNA that coded for proteins (known as exons) seemed to float like bits of wood in a sea of genetic gibberish.

The ca. 50 tracks investigated have previously been subject to a variety of geological surveys, but Pernille Venø Troelsen is the first to thoroughly examine them as a biologist, and this provides a different kind of information than the geologically based surveys.

The process brings together First Nations, as Native Canadians are called here, conservation biologists, business interests and various layers of government.

To figure out what goes wrong in these mice, a team led by Jeremy Nathans, a molecular biologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, examined the skin of newborn Frizzled6 and normal mice under a microscope each day as their first hairs grew in.

Prior to graduate school he wrote the first version of the ABySS genome assembler while working as a computational biologist at the BC Genome Sciences Centre.

If you missed it the first time around and want to hear more about my style, how we brought Dressed to life, and my job as a marine biologist, I hope you check out the interview!

Where Annihilation was told from the first person perspective of the Biologist, Authority jumps out to the third person for Control, telling a broader story that helps to put Annihilation into a bit more context, revealing that Annihilation is a good demonstration of an unreliable narrator — of course, how reliable can a narrator in a place such as Area X be?

These soldiers — a psychologist (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a biologist (Natalie Portman), a paramedic (Gina Rodriguez), a physicist (Tessa Thompson) and an anthropologist (Tuva Novotny)-- enter what is about to become a living, breathing nightmare, an environmental disaster zone without scientific explanation, as filtered through the mind of «Ex Machina» director Alex Garland, adapting the first book in Jeff VanderMeer's «Southern Reach» trilogy.

Pitt's Ian Gray is a biologist pursuing a Ph.D. in eye evolution, with first - year med student Karen (Brit Marling) as his new lab assistant.

In the books, Portman's character is known first as «the biologist» and then goes by a nickname, «Ghost Bird»; in the movie, she goes by Lena.

Randy Wayne White's Doc Ford series White's first Doc Ford novel, Sanibel Flats (1990), immediately pegged his marine biologist and ex-CIA agent hero as the ultimate successor to John D. MacDonald's legendary Travis McGee.

As part of the proceedings, the GGRO — a Parks Conservancy program in cooperation with the National Park Service — will help commemorate the 50th anniversary of a watershed moment in conservation science: the first gathering of biologists convened specifically to stop the disappearance of a species from the planet.

Biologists know that a healthy ecosystem requires a diversity of species, and every art student learns it as the first principle of design; a unified work of art is created through the harmonious combination of all its elements.

As a tropical biologist, the symposium became my first lesson in synthetic biology.

She has a Ph.D. in ecology / biology from the University of Michigan and worked previously as a field biologist, gaining first hand experience with the complex balance between the needs of people and the ecological systems they depend upon.

He was the first Director of Natural Resources in Fort Yukon and served as the regional biologist for several years.

This is DiCaprio going back to his first love, in a way, as before becoming an actor, he thought about becoming a marine biologist.

Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich still sees runaway population growth as a threat to the planet, but is hopeful that humans can avoid the first catastrophic collapse of a global civilization.

Let me first introduce Georgette, who earned her M.S. in Macrobiology last May but has never worked as a biologist.