Sentences with phrase «for organismal»

DNA damage - driven inflammation can be both beneficial and detrimental for organismal survival.

«Connecting the proximate mechanisms responsible for organismal diversity to the ultimate causes of latitudinal gradients in species richness.»

now PhD student at the International Max Planck Research Schools for Organismal Biology in Konstanz, Germany, with Iain Couzin

May 19, 2006 Field Museum hires new provost The Field Museum and the University of Chicago jointly announced Friday that Neil H. Shubin, PhD, will be appointed provost of The Field Museum and associate dean for organismal and evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago.

The Heidelberg researchers study the function and molecular structure of these «weapons systems» at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

«The underlying mechanisms still need to be clarified,» states the Heidelberg researcher, who leads the Molecular Evolution and Genomics research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

Using the Drosophila melanogaster fruit fly as a model organism, the team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann at Heidelberg University's Centre for Organismal Studies was able to show how a special developmental gene from the Hox family influences germline stem cells.

To fulfil the promise of stem cell therapy, it is important to discover the function of the respective stem cells and understand how they interact with their environment, that is, the surrounding cells and tissues,» explains Prof. Lohmann, who heads the Developmental Biology research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS).

The research team led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Lohmann of the Centre for Organismal Studies (COS) studied the function of a special developmental gene of the Hox gene family.

«Animals interact with their environment based on stereotypical movement patterns, such as those performed during running, breathing or feeding,» explains Prof. Lohmann, who directs the Developmental Biology research group at the Centre for Organismal Studies.

Not exact matches

«The octopus genome makes studies of cephalopod traits much more tractable, and now represents an important point on the tree of life for comparative evolutionary studies,» said Ragsdale, an associate professor in neurobiology and organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.

Research areas include species for comparative research; phenotypic characterization; fitness, genome stability and lateral gene transfer; control of organismal traits; monitoring and surveillance; modeling and standardization of methods and data.

And it could open the door to better recipes for the anti-venom used to rescue hikers and others who find themselves on the wrong end of a rattlesnake encounter, said lead researcher Matthew Holding, a graduate student in evolution, ecology and organismal biology.

I applied for the job, was short - listed and interviewed, and was finally offered the post, as the wintering marine biologist within the BAS Marine Organismal Adaptations project.

European editor Anne Forde discovered, in an interview with Hannah Kokko, an evolutionary ecologist in Helsinki, Finland, that one of the keys to Kokko's professional success is her ability to balance opposing approaches and points of view: life with work, the organismal approach of evolution with the population approach of ecology, and an appreciation for the local environment with the mind - broadening value of more exotic and distant locales.

Known as much for its complexity as its vital role in regulating cellular and organismal growth, the mechanistic target of rapamycin complex 1 (mTORC1) pathway has seemingly been acting in mysterious ways.

For extinct genomes such organismal interpretation is lost.

In all of our research areas we use integrated approaches, which include a wide range of techniques like biochemical, cellular, genetic, and organismal methods, to deepen our understanding of central processes in mammalian biology, which are highly significant for human health.

The purpose of the NSF - Simons Research Centers for MathBioSys is to support innovative, collaborative research at the intersection of mathematics and molecular, cellular and organismal biology, to establish new connections between mathematical sciences and biological sciences and to promote interdisciplinary education and workforce training.

In doing so, specific cell types may activate immune responses to fine tune cell - fate decisions at the organismal level; for instance, DNA damage in germ cells induces an innate immune response in worms that promotes endurance of somatic tissues to allow delay of progeny production when germ cells are hit by DNA damage.

«As the earliest known haramiyid, Haramiyavia is the key piece of evidence for inferences about the timeline of early mammalian evolution,» said study co-author Zhe - Xi Luo, PhD, professor of organismal biology and anatomy at the University of Chicago.

Therefore, signaling from peripheral tissues to the brain appears to be essential for the regulation of organismal growth and metabolism in response to nutrition availability in Drosophila melanogaster.

Our approach has wide applicability for testing hypotheses concerning organismal co-occurrences in deep time.

Relatively recent advances in organismal engineering have opened up new frontiers related to harnessing biosynthesis for the production of new materials with tailored functions that would be difficult to create using conventional synthetic techniques.

May 4, 2011 Neil Shubin elected to National Academy of Sciences, honored for teaching University of Chicago evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, PhD, the Robert R. Bensley Professor and Associate Dean of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, has been elected a Member of the National Academy of Sciences and honored with a prestigious national teaching award.

More recently, I have been advocating for science education and science funding particularly in the field of organismal biology.

The theory of evolution provides the mechanism for the observation: organismal variation and natural selection.

Focusing on the well - known «Cambrian Explosion,» Meyer argued that evolutionary theory could not account for the appearance of new organismal forms in a relatively short period of geological time.

The reduction of phosphate - rich ribosomes2 in warmer oceans will tend to produce higher organismal nitrogen (N) to phosphate (P) ratios, in turn increasing demand for N with consequences for the marine carbon cycle due to shifts towards N - limitation.

This complexity of living systems and the number of surprises it implies for global environmental research has only recently begun to be gradually appreciated across a number of disciplines, from organismal energetics to soil biochemistry and climatology.