Sentences with phrase «from plant biology»

Rather, biocentrism challenges us to fully accept the implications of the latest scientific findings in fields ranging from plant biology and cosmology to quantum entanglement and consciousness.

Instead of permanently deleting the Plk4 gene from the cells, they used a trick from plant biology to toggle its presence in the cells — one that had never before been applied to an animal cell's proteins.

Not exact matches

Because many first - generation graduates come from less affluent families, such socioeconomic differences are common, says Rebecca Lamb, assistant professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State University in Columbus and a first - generation college grad.

«In the early 1980s, there was not much to choose from, but I managed to find a Ph.D. program in plant biology» at the University of Hull, she says.

Speeches came from a variety of speakers, including a science broadcaster and writer, a Pakistani - born Canadian Muslim who works in STEM, a Pakistani - born professor who studies cell biology and anatomy; and, an emergency room physician who helped start the process to phase out coal - fueled power plants by 2030 in Alberta.

Moving from biochemistry to molecular biology, Palatnik started investigating the role of microRNAs — tiny RNA molecules that are important in gene regulation in most life forms — in the development of the plant Arabidopsis.

Defined narrowly — as a discipline distinct from other areas of plant biology — plant genomics is the study of the organization of genomes themselves.

Students can also separate themselves from the pack by seeking training in quantitative genetics and plant biology, beefing up their computational skills, and learning «to think like an evolutionist,» says Dangl.

Inspectors come with a range of expertise, from physics, engineering, and chemistry to computer science and even biology; samples from plants and animals often play a role in detecting unreported nuclear materials.

Can a postdoc fellow from India apply for plant biology funds to support research here in the U.S.?

Led by researchers at Duke University, the study offers clues to a longstanding question in developmental biology, namely how plants and animals make so many types of cells from the same set of instructions.

And many exchanges were heated because, despite 150 years of research on the biology of evolution, scientists still disagree about how and why multicellular creatures and plants emerged from ancient oceans that teemed with robust and self - reliant single - celled entities.

As a professor in the department of plant and microbial biology at the University of California, Berkeley, he works with both, applying insights from one to the study of the other.

When she isn't out in the forest gathering data for her Ph.D. in plant biology at the University of Georgia at Athens, Uma Nagendra spends a good deal of her time hanging upside down from a trapeze doing circus

During the march, a group of plant biology grad students called out to her and her colleagues, «Wait, you guys are from TAIR?»

Allison Miller, an associate professor in biology at Saint Louis University, is the lead for the NSF project, which also involves researchers from the University of Missouri, Missouri State University, Danforth Plant Center and Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, as well as the Grape Genetics Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Geneva, New York.

In one of the most elaborate feats of synthetic biology to date, a research team has engineered yeast with a medley of plant, bacterial, and rodent genes to turn sugar into thebaine, the key opiate precursor to morphine and other powerful painkilling drugs that have been harvested for thousands of years from poppy plants.

The majority of plant biologists work somewhere in the continuum from basic plant biology on one end — the main focus of this feature — to the development of agricultural products on the other.

And finally you can find a list of plant biology and botany organizations willing to discuss careers in these fields, plus a wonderful set of links to online Botany WWW sites listing everything from job search engines to educational sites to agencies that award grants and fellowships.

One of the most astonishing secrets in biology is this: every plant you see makes two different plants from the same genome.

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.

We are fortunate to have an outstanding community of researchers in this area covering the range from molecular biotechnology, fungal and plant genetics, plant biochemical and developmental biology through to animal developmental biology.

His research has advanced our understanding of fundamental questions in plastid biochemistry and achieved important biotechnological and synthetic biology breakthroughs, including engineered insect resistance and the transfer of the entire metabolic pathway for artemisinic acid from a medicinal plant to a biomass crop.

Plant natural products from synthetic biology Dr. Vincent Martin is a Professor of Biology at Concordia University where he currently holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Microbial Engineering and Synthetic Biology.

The theme of the meeting is «From our roots in vitro to the future of plant biotechnology» and we are inviting experts on a range of plant biotechnology topics, including the fields of in vitro biology, gene editing, synthetic biology, epigenetics and molecular farming to give keynote addresses.

From developing the first accelerator mass spectrometer for use in the biology field to tracking radionuclides from the Dai - ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) has spent 25 years in the spotlight of not only dating ancient artifactFrom developing the first accelerator mass spectrometer for use in the biology field to tracking radionuclides from the Dai - ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) has spent 25 years in the spotlight of not only dating ancient artifactfrom the Dai - ichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster, the Laboratory's Center for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (CAMS) has spent 25 years in the spotlight of not only dating ancient artifacts...

Impact Factor: 13.479 Issues Per Year: 12 issues per year Aims and Scope: Trends in Plant Science is the No. 1 monthly review journal in plant science (Journal metrics: SJR2013 7.209 IF2013 13.479 IPP2013 14.831), featuring broad coverage of basic plant science, from molecular biology through to ecoPlant Science is the No. 1 monthly review journal in plant science (Journal metrics: SJR2013 7.209 IF2013 13.479 IPP2013 14.831), featuring broad coverage of basic plant science, from molecular biology through to ecoplant science (Journal metrics: SJR2013 7.209 IF2013 13.479 IPP2013 14.831), featuring broad coverage of basic plant science, from molecular biology through to ecoplant science, from molecular biology through to ecology.

Doug received his PhD in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and did postdoctoral research in plant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge Engplant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge EngPlant Breeding Institute in Cambridge England.

From the project's initial conceptualization or invention sketches, to the exact materials purchased and the experimental design, to the day when a shoot first emerged in a plant biology project or a field of bacteria showed signs of antibiotic resistance, you want to encourage your students to write it all down.

Highest ranked research university and second largest research and development organization in Australia, this web collection of 41 affiliated Centres range from statistical consulting to plant cell biology.

The Plantae Store offers other resources ranging from (free) bookmarks for the 12 principles of plant biology to the History's Harvest — Where Food Comes From from (free) bookmarks for the 12 principles of plant biology to the History's Harvest — Where Food Comes From From DVD.

Cell Host & Microbe will publish novel findings related to microbes (which includes bacteria, fungi, parasites, and viruses) from molecular and cellular biology to translational studies with particular emphasis on the interface between the microbe and its host (vertebrate, invertebrate, or plant; unicellular or multicellular).

«A better understanding of the human perception of risk from climate change and the behavioral responses are key to curbing future climate change,» said lead author Brian Beckage, a professor of plant biology and computer science at the University of Vermont.

Specifically, Dangl and his team investigate how the plant immune system discriminates between microbial friend and foe in a complex environment, using tools and techniques from genomic, structural, cellular, and molecular biology.

That's why I switched from a largely pre-med major to plant biology for my PhD.

Translation of fundamental plant biology research (e.g. from Arabidopsis thaliana) into crops such as wheat provides a potential route to deal with this challenge.

The scientists themselves come from a mixture of disciplines, such as computational neuroscience, plant science and molecular biology.

Regarding iodine: Years and years ago, when the original paleo folks roamed the earth and buildings where caves, my high school biology teacher told us that since we lived on the west coast, not far from the sea (Los Angeles County), we got all the iodine we needed from plants that grow in the soil.

The word puvidham loosely translates from Tamil as «love for the earth,» and children learn much of their academics through organic farming, including math (establishing planting patterns), biology (studying the relationships between plant growth and environmental factors), economics (determining the price of a farm product), and language skills (writing about their activities and observations).

All are from the GCSE biology topic «plant hormones».

• Biology: The term biology comes from the Greek, meaning study of life; therefore, this field of learning concerns plants and animals and how the human body works.

I spent a lot of extra time at Universities (PhD in molecular biology) studying everything under the sun from geology to plant physiology and biotechnology (& other related topics).

Led by David Tilman, a biology professor at the University of Minnesota, the research shows that «mixtures of native perennial grasses and other flowering plants provide more usable energy per acre than corn grain ethanol or soybean biodiesel and are far better for the environment,» according to a release from the University of Minnesota.