Sentences with phrase «former postdoctoral fellow»

«It's no surprise that neurons in distinct regions of the brain are different but it is surprising just how different they are,» said Stephanie Dauth, co-first author of the paper and former postdoctoral fellow in the Disease Biophysics Group.

«These diverse responses underlie several important questions in neuroscience,» explained Leandro Alonso, a computational neuroscientist and former postdoctoral fellow at Rockefeller University in New York City.

Hlusko and her UC Berkeley colleagues — former postdoctoral fellow Christopher Schmitt, now at Boston University, and graduate students Tesla Monson and Marianne Brasil — along with Michael Mahaney of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, will publish their analysis next week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Every other year, Science Careers surveys several thousand current and former postdoctoral fellows mainly from the United States, Europe, and Asia about factors influencing their postdoctoral experience.

Other authors of the study were graduate students in Phelps» lab, Mariam Okhovat, Alejandro Berrio and Gerard Wallace, and former postdoctoral fellow Alexander Ophir, now an assistant professor of psychology at Cornell University.

After observing important similarities between planarians and their disease - causing cousins, Newmark and former postdoctoral fellow Jim Collins (now a professor at UT Southwestern) took the radical step of applying their knowledge of planarians to studying schistosome biology.

The breakthrough in 2013 was led by materials scientists Joanna Aizenberg, the Amy Smith Berylson Professor of Materials Science and Chemistry and Chemical Biology and Core Faculty member of the Wyss Institute and former postdoctoral fellow Wim L. Noorduin.

Also participating in the study were postdoctoral fellows Vincent Warnault, PhD, and Feng Liu, PhD; former postdoctoral fellow Gabriel Mercado Besserer, PhD, and Khanhky Phamluong, research associate.

Mourigal, former postdoctoral fellow Joseph Paddison and graduate student Marcus Daum published their observations in the journal Nature Physics on Monday, December 5, 2016.

Whitehead Member Peter Reddien and former postdoctoral fellow Christian Petersen recently found that the Wnt pathway — an ancient signaling circuit that operates in all animals — inhibits head regeneration at wound sites in the tiny flatworms.

«This kind of reverse engineering problem is notoriously difficult to solve, even using days of computation on a supercomputer,» said Etienne Vouga, former postdoctoral fellow in the group, now an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin.

«The fact that a neutralization of 100 % could not be observed does not disqualify this approach as a promising alternative method for the development of an anti-elapidic antiserum,» explains Dr Ramos, former postdoctoral fellow at Butantan Institute.

Hlusko and her UC Berkeley colleagues — former postdoctoral fellow Christopher Schmitt, now at Boston University, and graduate students Tesla Monson and Marianne Brasil — along with Michael Mahaney of the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Brownsville, will publish their analysis this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

-- Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.

Qing Li, a former postdoctoral fellow in Sun's lab and now a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China, thought a catalyst that combines copper nanoparticles with graphene might be effective.

Jarvis teamed up with Steven Brauth from the University of Maryland and his former postdoctoral fellow Sarah Durand, to help reconcile this confusion.

The defectors include one of the institute's co-founders, Sidarta Ribeiro, a former postdoctoral fellow with Nicolelis.

Kurt and Kaveh Laksari, also a former postdoctoral fellow with Camarillo, are co-lead authors on the paper.

«Concussion is a silent epidemic that is affecting millions of people,» said Mehmet Kurt, a former postdoctoral fellow in Camarillo's lab.

A story of collaborative success, the Interfacial Microscope and the techniques that arise from it were enabled by a Partnership User Proposal agreement that gave Nouamane Laanait (a former postdoctoral fellow at Argonne) dedicated time to work on the beamline to develop the instrument in exchange for opening it up to use to all users.

Gao's coauthors on the paper were Yujie Wei (lead author and a former postdoctoral fellow at Brown), Yongqiang Li, Lianchun Zhu, Yao Liu, and Xianqi Lei of the Laboratory of Nonlinear Mechanics, Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Gang Wang of Laboratory for Microstructures, Shanghai University; Yanxin Wu and Zhenli Mi of the University of Science and Technology, Beijing; and Jiabin Liu and Hongtao Wang of Zhejiang University.

The fish offer a fresh opportunity to find out how animals can thrive with traits that would sicken humans, said co-senior author Nicolas Rohner, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Tabin lab who is now an assistant investigator at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research in Kansas City, Missouri, and an assistant professor at the University of Kansas Medical Center.

The next step in the research should be to study the use of mindfulness - based therapies to target purpose in life and resulting sleep quality, said Arlener Turner, the study's first author and a former postdoctoral fellow in neurology at Feinberg.

Across the country, cell biologist and biochemist Bruce Spiegelman and his former postdoctoral fellow Rajesh Rao, both at Harvard Medical School's Dana - Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, were independently probing the browning of mouse fat.

«While genetic mutations are at the root of cancer, a number of studies over the last 10 to 20 years have implicated the cellular microenvironment as playing a key role in promoting or suppressing tumor progression,» says lead author Ovijit Chaudhuri, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Mooney Lab at Harvard who recently joined the mechanical engineering faculty at Stanford University.

The team led by John Hogenesch, PhD, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and Jason DeBruyne, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Hogenesch lab and now an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, applied their new method to identifying other clock partners that target a multipurpose cell nucleus receptor for disposal.

«I wanted to be involved in women?s activities at UCSF, so the women?s conference seemed natural,» said Kendra Rumbaugh, a former postdoctoral fellow in the department of anesthesia at UCSF.

«In this study, we discovered the strep genes responsible for the biosynthesis and assembly of GAC, the very molecule that defines the pathogen in clinical diagnosis,» said first author Nina van Sorge, PharmD, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow at UC San Diego who now leads her own laboratory at Utrecht University Medical Center in the Netherlands.

When first author Jianyu Li, Ph.D. (former Postdoctoral Fellow at the Wyss Institute and now an Assistant Professor at McGill University) started thinking about how to improve medical adhesives, he found a solution in an unlikely place: a slug.

One reason that fast - relaxing microenvironments promote more osteogenesis and form bone is that cells inside these matrices can mechanically remodel the matrix and more easily change shape, said Ovijit Chaudhuri, former postdoctoral fellow in the Mooney lab and co-first author.

«Among the memory difficulties that people report as they age, having trouble remembering people's names can be upsetting and stressful in social situations,» says Dr. Renee Biss, a former postdoctoral fellow at Baycrest's Neuropsychology and Cognitive Health program who conducted the study.

In the new study, Ron and first author Emmanuel Darcq, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow now at McGill University in Canada, found that when mice consumed excessive amounts of alcohol for a prolonged period, there was a marked decrease in the amount of BDNF in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), a brain region important for decision making.

The article was written in collaboration with Professor Tsun - Mei Chang at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside, a former postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and L. Rene Corrales, a former scientist at PNNL.

«Among vertebrate tetrapods — things with four limbs — the axolotl is one of the best regenerators out there,» says Jeffrey Nelson, a former postdoctoral fellow in regenerative biology at the Morgridge Institute.

Inspired by arthropod insects and spiders, Whitesides and Alex Nemiroski, a former postdoctoral fellow in Whitesides» Harvard lab, have created a type of semi-soft robot capable of standing and walking.

«To date, most integrated sensor / actuator systems used in soft robotics have been quite rudimentary,» says Michael Wehner, former postdoctoral fellow at SEAS and co-author of the paper.

Along with Tsun - Mei Chang, a former postdoctoral fellow at PNNL, Dang created the widely used and cited Dang - Chang model, which accurately portrays water - based systems in changing environments.

The paper was co-authored by Tucker Gilman, a postdoctoral fellow at NIMBioS; Scott Nuismer, an associate professor of biology at the University of Idaho; and Tony Jhwueng, a former postdoctoral fellow at NIMBioS.

Delgoffe and Seng - Ryong Woo, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral fellow in Vignali's laboratory, are co-first authors.

Atsushi Suzuki, PhD., a former postdoctoral fellow in the Belmonte lab, was the lead author of both that and the present study.

Ruishu Deng, M.D., Ph.D. (left), the paper's first author and a former postdoctoral fellow at City of Hope and Defu Zeng, City of Hope professor of diabetes immunology and hematopoietic cell transplantation

Lewis and Brett G. Compton, a former postdoctoral fellow in her group, developed inks of epoxy resins, spiked with viscosity - enhancing nanoclay platelets and a compound called dimethyl methylphosphonate, and then added two types of fillers: tiny silicon carbide «whiskers» and discrete carbon fibers.

In 2010, Srivastava and a former postdoctoral fellow, Masaki Ieda, PhD, expanded on that breakthrough with direct reprogramming in a dish, which allows scientists to transform one adult cell type into another without first reverting back to a stem cell state.

«These results suggest that animals «decide» what needs to be regenerated, in part, by using cues that indicate axis direction with respect to the wound,» says first author Petersen, who is a former postdoctoral fellow in the Reddien lab and currently Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences at Northwestern University.

-- Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.