Sentences with phrase «geneticist with»

Chris is a statistical geneticist with a broad range of interests from population genetics to association analysis of clinical phenotypes.

Robert Wildin, M.D., a clinical geneticist with nearly three decades of experience in private and hospital - based medical practice, joined the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) on Nov. 10, 2014 as chief of the Genomic Healthcare Branch (GHB).

Researchers led by Kári Stefánsson, a geneticist with deCODE Genetics in Reykjavik, Iceland, identified 27 such regions, and the other two groups, led by geneticist Timothy Frayling at Peninsula Medical School in Exeter in the U.K., and Joel Hirschhorn, a geneticist at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, spotted 20 and 10 regions, respectively.

«The ocean is like a black box for salmon and many factors can play a role in their survival,» said O'Malley, a geneticist with the Coastal Oregon Marine Experiment Station at OSU's Hatfield Center.

«You'd expect animals around a more urbanized estuary, such as Monterey Bay, to have more exposure to oil products from cars or disease elements relative to Big Sur,» says co-author Keith Miles, a geneticist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center.

So a team led by Carlos Bustamante, a comparative geneticist at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, and Elaine Ostrander, a comparative geneticist with NHGRI, analyzed genetic information from 915 domestic dogs representing 80 different breeds.

So 6 years ago, Kenneth Vogel, a geneticist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Lincoln, Nebraska, and colleagues set out to enlist farmers for a much larger evaluation.

«While ChIP - seq is very powerful in that it can query an entire genome for characteristics associated with enhancer activity in a single experiment, it can fail to identify some enhancers and identify some sites as being enhancers when they really aren't,» says Diane Dickel, a geneticist with Berkeley Lab's Genomics Division and member of the SIF - seq development team.

Pearson undoubtedly felt more satisfied with a merely statistical account of resemblance's of individuals to their parents and more remote ancestors than did geneticists with a deterministic metaphysics.

For example, half the molecular geneticists with degrees granted between 2004 and 2007 work in the post-secondary education sector, 46 % of those women as research associates and 15 % as tenure - track faculty.

The corresponding authors are Axel Visel and Len Pennacchio, also geneticists with Berkeley Lab's Genomics Division.

The objective of the fellowship is to provide an in - depth clinical research training experience at a premier medical center with expertise and significant clinical volume in the area of biochemical genetics, including lysosomal storage diseases, as well as in therapeutics and clinical trials involving patients with these and other metabolic diseases and, thereby, to increase the number of medical geneticists with interest, knowledge, and expertise in this area.

Collaborators on GOBii include Susan McCouch and Mark Sorrells, professors of plant breeding and genetics at Cornell University; Qi Sun, a senior research associate at Cornell's Computational Biology Service Unit; and Ed Buckler and Jean Luc Jannink, geneticists with the USDA Agricultural Research Service.

mammals aren't peas, dr. mengele, opps, i mean mendle, and geneticists with multi - million dollar grants and facilities can't do what some «reputable» breeders appear to dream they do for dog breeds.

Not exact matches

That's the vision of Harvard geneticist George Church, who has been experimenting with recreating an actual Wooly Mammoth by combining DNA from one of the long dead creatures found frozen in Siberia with material from modern elephants.

And so, Baylor College of Medicine geneticist Erez Lieberman Aiden and his team came up with a new method of dealing with the issue.

And secondly, Stephen Barr's point seems to be a real solution: that theologians need to learn the language of science - not just absorbing the factual evidence of recent discoveries, but also the methodologies and modes of thought that scientists, whether quantum physicists or population geneticists, employ in their day - to - day grappling with problems in their fields.

«These things have evolved because they're good for the parents, but they sometimes, not [with] high frequency, but sometimes carry over» into offspring, study researcher William Rice, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, told LiveScience.

Because he is a dedicated Marxist as well as a famous geneticist, Lewontin saw the conflict between creation and evolution as a class struggle, with history inevitably awarding the victory to the naturalistic class.

An exception, together with Sewall Wright, was C.H. Waddington, the British developmental biologist and geneticist.

The greatest geneticist I have known (Sewall Wright) believes with me that there is nothing in all nature except mind on various levels.

In the future, in the words of Princeton geneticist Lee Silver, «Parents can gain complete control over their destiny, with the ability to guide and enhance the characteristics of their children, and their children's children as well.»

The geneticists, however, were not satisfied with merely enunciating laws of heredity.

I am speaking here as a zoologist, specifically a geneticist, who has been concerned with the implications of his field for the philosophy of science.

I am (a) A gifted psychologist (b) A well respected geneticist (c) A highly educated sociologist (d) A Christian with the remarkable ability to ignore inconvenient facts.

I remember their many visits to geneticists to see if the baby my Mom was pregnant with have the same problem.

Once our geneticists make a diagnosis, they work with your regular physician to provide an additional level of care during your pregnancy.

With breezy references to «kick - ass geneticists» and zombies, Arney's book is an entertaining read but never shorts the reader on the actual science.

«This could be it — the next step in cloning,» says Jose Cibelli, a geneticist at Michigan State University in East Lansing not involved with the study.

It began with only 4 members: John Gavin, a bacteriologist, Edward C. Keller, a geneticist, S. Phyllis Stearner, a zoologist, and Thomas Austin, an ecologist, and quickly grew to a network of over one thousand scientists and engineers.

With enough data, geneticists can estimate when species diverged based on the number of genetic differences between them.

The Moores Cancer Center's Molecular Tumor Board brought together medical, surgical and radiation therapy oncologists, biostatisticians, radiologists, pathologists, clinical geneticists, basic and translational science researchers, and bioinformatics and pathway analysis specialists to discuss the intricacies of tumor genetics and tailor a personalized treatment plan for patients with advanced cancer or who have exhausted standard therapies.

Goss decided to do his Ph.D. at Harvard with Richard Lewontin, a population geneticist who used mathematics in his research.

Then, in 2010, collaborating with his colleague Richard Gibbs and other Baylor geneticists, Lupski sequenced his own genome — and «Boom!

Han's team, in collaboration with Francisco Silva, an evolutionary geneticist from Spain, analyzed 20 genes of Mycobacterium lepromatosis and compared them with those of Mycobacterium leprae.

Eager to sort through the pile of curriculum vitae's on his desk, Rudnicki is particularly looking for molecular geneticists working on different stem cell systems; scientists with genomics bents like proteomics, microarray analysis, and bioinformatics; and a couple of clinician scientists.

Evolutionary geneticist Austin Burt, who leads Target Malaria's research at Imperial College London and has no affiliation with Safe Genes, concurs.

At a think tank meeting about autism several years ago, molecular geneticist Simon Gregory spoke with mainstream and nonconventional doctors about oxytocin, the so - called «love hormone» that some doctors were using to treat symptoms of social disconnection in children with autism.

This week on the podcast, genetics and alcoholism with psychiatric geneticist Laura Jean Bierut.

This open layout means that Bio21 students, primarily graduate students and postdocs, are assured of opportunities to interact with researchers from a variety of disciplines; a biochemistry student, for example, has the opportunity to work — and chat — with chemists who are designing molecules for potential drugs, or geneticists, or pharmacologists.

A few years after he arrived in Carbondale to run SIU's physiology department, he began collaborating with Thomas Wagner, a geneticist at Ohio University in Athens who was a pioneer in engineering transgenic animals.

That was the reasoning of behavioral geneticist Danielle M. Dick of Virginia Commonwealth University, who, with 13 other scientists from around the world, has been exploring a gene called CHRM2.

Although house cats have only a limited ability to metabolize carbohydrates, including starch, they possess a longer intestine than their wild counterparts, presumably to help digest the lower - quality sustenance they get from trash heaps compared with the all - meat diet they would be living on in the wild, according to geneticist Carlos Driscoll of the National Institutes of Health.

Stephen Wooding, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of California, Merced, says the findings are consistent with what he and other researchers believe happened in pandas.

With today's aDNA capture methods, geneticists can analyze hundreds of ancient genomes to answer specific questions.

It really forces them to grapple with the question of what sleep is,» says Ravi Nath, the paper's first author and a molecular geneticist at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena.

The work «helps us to understand how chromosomes have changed over time, which chromosome rearrangements may have led to the formation of new species, and what might be driving chromosomal rearrangements,» says Janine Deakin, a geneticist at the University of Canberra who was not involved with the work.

His graduate advisor, Pamela Davis, was a physician as well as a geneticist, and Chen was exposed to medicine when Davis opened group meetings with stories from her recent rounds.

This questions was quickly answered after consulting with the auxin geneticists Professor Klaus Palme from Freiburg and Professor Malcolm Bennett from Nottingham: «From a collection of mutants of the model plant Arabidopsis with an atypical response to the administration of auxin, one special mutant did not exhibit any IAA - mediated root hair depolarization,» Hedrich recalls.

Pediatric geneticist Jennifer Kalish (right) and her lab technician Whitney Frederic are probing why children with Beckwith - Wiedemann syndrome are more prone to certain cancers.