Sentences with phrase «genomics research at»

The mission of the Sequencing and Microarray Facility is to support genomics research at MDACC by providing investigators with access to state - of - the - art instrumentation and a high level of technical expertise in a centralized facility, thereby minimizing the duplication of expensive equipment, maintaining technical excellence and enhancing research collaborations.

ISB is one of three organizations awarded a contract by NCI to develop a cloud - based platform that will serve as a large - scale data repository and provide the computational infrastructure necessary to carry out cancer genomics research at unprecedented scales.

«Knowing the amount of variation within an individual is crucial,» says Dominic Kwiatkowski, who leads malaria genomics research at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute near Cambridge, England.

Prior to veterinary school Dr. Mulchi was involved in genomic research at NCSU — CVM where she co-authored multiple publications.

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Before Editas, she was Entrepreneur - in - Residence at The Broad Institute, a biomedical and genomic research center, and prior to that, she was President and CEO of Avila Therapeutics.

Dr. Eric Topol, a cardiologist and professor of genomics at the Scripps Research Institute in California, said there was great potential value in consumer genomics tests, particularly with services like those developed by Geisinger, Invitae and Sema4 that are backed by strong data.

Dr. Kshirod K. Jena, a principal scientist at IRRI whose research has been on breaking the yield barrier of rice using genomics strategy, and his team discovered that the gene Gn1a - type 3 allele had not been very effective in indica cultivars.

Last June, he switched to the Department of Human DNA Variability at the Centre for Genomic and Oncological Research in Granada.

Another panelist, Mara Dierssen, a neurobiologist at the Centre of Genomic Research, argued that «countries that invest a lot in science have a higher level of life quality and stronger economies.

These new governance structures must be able to address the concerns of research participants while at the same time ensuring effective data sharing that promotes public trust in genomics research.

Even though Rienhoff is the founder of two biotechnology companies and holds a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University, he has conducted his hunt not as an expert in human genomics but as a do - it - yourself biologist, teaching himself the tricks of the trade as he moves along and doing his research at home.

This study opens new avenues of research aiming at integrating genomic and epigenomic data together with environmental exposures in order to elucidate the physio - pathological mechanisms underlying asthma and to promote the development of new therapies.

Physicians at Mayo Clinic's Individualized Medicine Clinic and researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) have personalized drug treatments for patients with cholangiocarcinoma using genomic sequencing technologies.

Knowledge brokering is different in that it creates «an ongoing dialogue and exchange» between researchers and stakeholders, explains Christine Knight, a policy research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United research fellow at the Economic and Social Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Research Council Genomics Policy and Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Research Forum in Edinburgh, U.K. Knight works as a knowledge broker — among genomics researchers, social scientists, and policy makers — and as a social scientist studying knowledge brokering roles in the United Kingdom.

The clinching evidence came this past year, when biologist Carol Bult and her colleagues at the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland, deciphered the microbe's complete genetic sequence, consisting of 1.7 million genetic letters in its DNA.

She received her postdoctoral training in colorectal cancer genomics at the Institute for Genomic Research (now part of the J. Craig Venter Institute) in 2000 and her graduate training in biochemical pharmacology from the State University of New York in Buffalo.

The first government - funded human genomics research study performed on African soil — aimed at unlocking the unique genetic character of southern African populations — has revealed a high level of genetic diversity.

Using the genomic technologies he's learned at the IGB, Woolbright hopes to develop a research program that investigates climate - driven changes in species interactions at the gene level.

A decade ago, this week, scientists at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and the Institute for Genomic Research announced they had decoded the genetic information inside Treponema pallidum, the bacterium that causes the sexually transmitted disease (STD) syphilis.

Any company that has significant diagnostic information and genomic capabilities, if they want to go for the gold ring, they try to figure out how to make it useful to the health industry rather than just producing research tools,» says David Galas, a professor at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle, Washington, and the vice president and chief science officer for biological and life sciences at the Battelle Memorial Institute in Columbus, Ohio.

The researchers conducted genetic testing of the plant, as well as genomic research and computational modeling to arrive at their conclusions.

Still, while it is exciting to see the rapid advance in Indian science, the emergence of world - class institutions, and the increase in collaborations and external engagement, Aseem Ansari, a professor of genomics and biochemistry at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the founder and director of the Khorana and S.N. Bose Scholars exchange programs, reckons «it will take another decade to remodel national research infrastructure and create scientific ecosystems that are comparable to what one has access to at most R1 research institutions in the U.S.»

«There was 10 times as much DNA as we originally thought there would be,» says Jane Carlton, who led the project while at the Institute for Genomic Research in Rockville, Maryland.

Science Careers spoke with Isabelle Vernos, chairwoman of the ERC Scientific Council's Working Group on Gender Balance and research professor at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain, about the funding agency's efforts to bolster the prospects of female applicants.

When The Cancer Genome Atlas Research Network reported its genomic profiling of clear - cell kidney tumours, about one - quarter of participants (126 patients) had been operated on at Memorial Sloan Kettering3.

«The main thing we've been working on over the last 6 to 18 months is to look at how we might improve getting sequenceable samples, and it does seem to be that controlling those fixation steps is going to have a marked impact,» says James Hadfield, director of the genomics core for the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute at the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

I was riding high on a series of recent academic honors for my work studying toxigenic molds and was looking forward to spending a sabbatical leave at The Institute for Genomic Research, now the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Maryland.

During my tenure at NCI, I redirected my research into expression genomics, an amalgam of cancer cell biology and comprehensive and massively parallel genetic technologies.

«These plants had more water than they needed, but that won't always be the case,» said co-first author Katarzyna Glowacka, a postdoctoral researcher who led this research at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (IGB).

If the findings of the study are replicated in other animal models, such as pigs, they could have considerable implications for public health, says Oluf Pedersen, professor of genomic medicine at the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research at the University of Copenhagen.

Research associates Anneke Prins and Doug Orr conducted the experimental work which was jointly funded by CIMMYT (W4031.11 Global Wheat Program) and by Realizing Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency, a project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and led by the University of Illinois at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

The regulatory function of novel targets will be validated in collaboration with Judy H. Cho, MD, Ward - Coleman Professor of Medicine and Genetics and Genomic Sciences, and Assistant Chief of Research in the Gastrointestinal Division, and Jean Federic Colombel, MD, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center, at they Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

Claire Fraser and her colleagues at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, have determined the sequence of all of Vibrio's 4.03 million base pairs — the A's, T's, C's, and G's that make up DNA.

At the German Cancer Research Center, (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, or DKFZ) in Heidelberg, scientists working in precision oncology are also taking full advantage of advances in genomic technology.

With over two years of research, the purpose is to understand at a genomic level the differences between these fungi.

Plant breeding research elsewhere in the world has benefited from advances in genomics and molecular markers, but plant breeding scientists in China do not work closely with researchers in those areas, says Carl Pray, an agriculture, food, and resource economics expert at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, who has worked in China.

Added Robert Fulton, director of technology development at Washington University's McDonnell Genome Institute, which contributed to the sequencing and analysis of the data: «This research is a great example of the value of comprehensive genomic analyses and the insights that can be gained from thorough, well - designed studies.

The Genomic Instability Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has offered an explanation of this phenomenon and proposes a way to overcome it.

There is a large effort to increase cross-disciplinary interactions and carry out innovative research that is at the junction of different sciences such as genomics, computing, mathematics, nanotechnology, chemistry, and many other disciplines.

But John Quackenbush of The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, put his dollar on 118,259 genes, an estimate based on the genes in TIGR's human gene index, while a 153,478 - genes entry came in from Sam LaBrie of Incyte Genomics, a California - based company that in September 1999 announced that the human genome had at least 140,000 genes.

The research, published in Genetics in Medicine, is»... part of ongoing efforts among schizophrenia researchers to predict and prevent illness at the earliest stages possible,» says senior author Dr. Anne Bassett, Clinician - Scientist in CAMH's Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute and Canada Research Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic Diresearch, published in Genetics in Medicine, is»... part of ongoing efforts among schizophrenia researchers to predict and prevent illness at the earliest stages possible,» says senior author Dr. Anne Bassett, Clinician - Scientist in CAMH's Campbell Family Mental Health Research Institute and Canada Research Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic DiResearch Institute and Canada Research Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic DiResearch Chair in Schizophrenia Genetics and Genomic Disorders.

The team, led by ICREA research professor Gian Gaetano Tartaglia at the CRG, is using genomics to advance our understanding of Parkinson's disease.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Iniresearch measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research IniResearch Initiative.

«This groundbreaking study sets the stage for more exacting research, using the latest genomic technologies and aimed at developing new therapies that could help the tens of thousand of patients who urgently need our help,» said Dr. Nhan Tran, an Associate Professor of TGen's Cancer and Cell Biology Division and the study's other co-senior author.

The hostilities involve institutions (M.I.T. and Harvard versus University of California), gender (Doudna, Charpentier, Zhang), geography (east versus west coast) and what you might call über - institutions (the Broad Institute, which has become an empire of genomic research under Lander's direction, especially after his leading role in the Human Genome Project, versus the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, whose president, Robert Tjian, is based at Berkeley and has co-authored at least one CRISPR paper with Doudna, also an HHMI investigator).

«This [work] opens the way for comparative genomics and identification of [unique features] in this group of ecological and economically important species,» says Etienne Danchin, an evolutionary biologist at the National Institute of Agricultural Research in Sophia - Antipolis, France, who was not involved with the rResearch in Sophia - Antipolis, France, who was not involved with the researchresearch.

University of Washington Center for Genomic and Health Care Equality; Stanford University School of Medicine Center for Integration of Research on Genetics and Ethics; the Duke Center for the Study of Public Genomics; Case Western Reserve University Center for Genetic Research Ethics and Law; Center for Genomics and Society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Pennsylvania Center for the Integration of Genetics Healthcare Technology

Now, Timothy Read at The Institute for Genomic Research (TIGR) in Rockville, Maryland, and colleagues have sequenced the entire Florida strain and compared it to the genome of the so - called Porton strain.

Researchers from Guillermo Montoya's team at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), in collaboration with Isabelle Vernos» Group from the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), have uncovered the molecular interaction between TACC3 and chTOG, key proteins in forming the internal cellular framework that enables and sustains cell division.

Maine: Voters approved Question 4, 63.1 % to 36.9 %, providing $ 10 million in bonds, to be matched by $ 11 million in private funds, to build a genomics and disease research center at the Maine Technology Institute in Brunswick.