Sentences with phrase «graduate studies in the lab»

Kashi completed her undergraduate degree in cognitive sciences at BGU, and is now embarking on her graduate studies in the lab.

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A lot of the most interesting work in this field has come out of the lab of Amanda Woodward, a psychologist at the University of Chicago who came to the subject after studying language development in graduate school.

Her interest was piqued: Upon graduating in 1999 she joined the lab of Ding Xue at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to study how cell death is regulated in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans.

Because his wife, Lisa Teodecki, was still working on her neuroscience Ph.D. at WSU, he worked as a research technician in Kramer's lab for another year while considering his options for graduate studies.

Her main focus has been studying how the central nervous system develops in embryos: in frogs as a graduate student, then in mice as a postdoc at Duke University starting in 1997, and later at U.C. San Francisco when her lab moved to the Ernest Gallo Clinic and Research Center there in 1999.

It also proved useful for making contacts: I eventually applied to do graduate studies in plant physiology at Queen's University, in the lab of a scientist with whom I had worked the previous summer.

In a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Michele Noonan, a University of Texas neuroscience graduate student in the lab of Amelia Eisch, shows that a lack of neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult rat can actually cause drug addictioIn a recent study published in the Journal of Neuroscience, Michele Noonan, a University of Texas neuroscience graduate student in the lab of Amelia Eisch, shows that a lack of neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult rat can actually cause drug addictioin the Journal of Neuroscience, Michele Noonan, a University of Texas neuroscience graduate student in the lab of Amelia Eisch, shows that a lack of neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult rat can actually cause drug addictioin the lab of Amelia Eisch, shows that a lack of neurogenesis, or birth of new neurons, in the adult rat can actually cause drug addictioin the adult rat can actually cause drug addiction.

The lead author on the study was Richard A. Slivicki, a graduate student in Hohmann's lab in the IU Program in Neuroscience and Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

Perhaps most significantly, in a study led by Frances Champagne — then a graduate student in Meaney's lab, now an associate professor with her own lab at Columbia University in New York — they found that inattentive mothering in rodents causes methylation of the genes for estrogen receptors in the brain.

«CRISPR - Cpf1 differs from CRISPR - Cas9 in a number of key ways, including being easier to deliver to muscle cells, said Yu Zhang, a graduate student in Dr. Olson's lab and the first author of this study.

«Parents are constantly making a variety of everyday decisions and have competing demands on their attention,» says Joanna Dudek, a graduate student in Haley's Parent - Infant Research Lab and the lead author of the study.

First author Yi Peng, a graduate student in Chen's lab, led the study and designed the cover image.

For trainees with interest in Ebola, including Esther Ndungo, a fifth - year graduate student in Chandran's lab, more researchers in the field could mean more opportunities to study different aspects of the virus.

The first author of the Science paper is Laura Gaydos, a graduate student in Strome's lab at UC Santa Cruz who led the study for her Ph.D. thesis and is now a postdoctoral researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

For the average - sized laboratory in the study — roughly five postdocs, three graduate students, and two technicians — adding one lab member was correlated with an extra quarter publication.

The study was performed mainly at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and was led by postdoctoral researcher Junfeng He and graduate student Thomas Mion, researchers in the lab of BC Assistant Professor of Physics Rui - Hua He, a lead author of the paper.

An interdisciplinary team with researchers from fields of psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former graduate student in Hoy's lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral researcher in Hoy's lab.

«It jibed nicely with our expectations,» said Anders Nelson, co-lead author of the study and a graduate student in Mooney's lab.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

The first author of this study, Jeremiah Minich, a graduate student working on his thesis in Knight's lab and in the lab of Eric E. Allen, PhD, associate professor at UC San Diego Scripps Institution of Oceanography, swabbed each of these sites while wearing protective gowning and gloves to avoid unintentional contamination of the environments.

By the end of my second year, however, I realized that studying a chemical process or molecule in a lab was not for me, so graduate work in chemistry was out of the question.

I made a rough plan: Finish my undergraduate degree, work in a lab for 2 to 3 years, perhaps go back to complete graduate studies (M.Sc.

And that means that auditory information is a big part of their cognitive repertoire,» says Rachael Shaw, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led the new study while a graduate student in comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton's lab at Cambridge.

«We studied human T cells, isolated from blood donors of all ages, to compare mature cytotoxic T cells with naive ones,» said Philip Ansumana Hull, graduate student in Ott's lab and one of the first authors of the study.

«We showed that we can deliver anti-cancer drugs exactly in the area where they are needed and they can kill cancer cells,» said Andrey Zakharchenko, a graduate student in the Nanostructured Materials Lab in the UGA College of Family and Consumer Sciences who led the study.

«This could postpone the development of age - related diseases,» said Mark Y. Jeng, the study's other first author and former graduate student in Ott's lab.

«We knew it was important to understand the viral populations driving the epidemic, which motivated us to tackle the challenges of sequencing Zika,» said study co-first author Hayden Metsky, a graduate student in the Sabeti lab.

Studies of individual neurons in dishes of cultured neurons and in brain slices by co-first author Robert E. Stanley, a graduate student in the lab, revealed that neurons in the mutant mice had decreased numbers of dendritic spines, an important part of the synapses that neurons use to communicate with one another.

«Clay naturally has a lot of moisture in it, and that's not a problem when you're doing supercapacitors,» said Kaushik Kalaga, a graduate student in Ajayan's lab and lead author of the new study.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

«Here we use electrostatic doping to control the atomic configuration of a two - dimensional material,» said study co-lead author Ying Wang, another graduate student in Zhang's lab.

«As bioengineers, we can now design 3D culture systems where environmental parameters such as composition, porosity, and stiffness can be precisely tuned to study the importance of these cues on tumorigenesis,» says coauthor Sandeep Koshy, a Harvard graduate student in the Harvard - MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, who works in Mooney's lab at Harvard SEAS and at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

In a study published in the journal Neuron, co-first authors Christian Burgess, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow; Rohan Ramesh, a graduate student, and colleagues in Andermann's lab recorded images of brain activity in mice across different states of hunger and satietIn a study published in the journal Neuron, co-first authors Christian Burgess, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow; Rohan Ramesh, a graduate student, and colleagues in Andermann's lab recorded images of brain activity in mice across different states of hunger and satietin the journal Neuron, co-first authors Christian Burgess, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow; Rohan Ramesh, a graduate student, and colleagues in Andermann's lab recorded images of brain activity in mice across different states of hunger and satietin Andermann's lab recorded images of brain activity in mice across different states of hunger and satietin mice across different states of hunger and satiety.

«The idea of electron doping to alter a material's atomic structure is unique to 2 - D materials, which are much more electrically tunable compared with 3 - D bulk materials,» said study co-lead author Jun Xiao, a graduate student in Zhang's lab.

The new study redefines what it means to be a topological material, according to Su - Yang Xu, a graduate student in Hasan's lab and co-first author of the May 7 paper with postdoctoral research associate Madhab Neupane at Princeton and Raman Sankar of National Taiwan University.

The lead author on the study is Danielle Panoz - Brown, a graduate student in the lab of Jonathon Crystal, a professor in the IU Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, who is also an author on the paper.

The idea for the new study came during a lab retreat by graduate students at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

As a graduate student in James Townsel's lab, he studied the regulation and function of choline receptors, which are responsible for the transport of cholinergic neurons.

On a hunch, Bradley Lang, Ph.D., the lead author of the study and a graduate student in Dr. Silver's lab, came up with the idea of designing a drug that would help axons regenerate without having to touch the healing spinal cord, as current treatments may require.

UCF graduate student Carolina Rodrigues Felix led the study in UCF Assistant Professor Kyle Rohde's lab.

«Through various theoretical, computational and experimental studies, we found that the mechanics of flapping propulsion are actually very similar in air and in water,» said Kevin Chen, a graduate student in the Harvard Microrobotics Lab at SEAS.

«Because the fish are so committed to their role as fathers, we're able in the lab to dissociate their parental behavior — the fanning and the nipping — from behaviors associated with courtship, territory defense and nest defense,» said University of Illinois graduate student Ross DeAngelis, who led the study with psychology professor Justin Rhodes.

Rainfall oxygen isotopic ratios are good indicators of the amount of rainfall occurring throughout the region, as determined by a modern - day calibration study recently published by another graduate student in Cobb's lab.

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.

During the Biophysical Society's 62nd Annual Meeting, held Feb. 17 - 21, 2018, in San Francisco, California, Samuel H. Schneider, a graduate student in Stanford University's Boxer Lab, will present the group's research studying what happens when an enzyme is accelerating reaction and how an enzyme changes over time making it resistant to antibiotics.

«If we could only turn on the process hibernators appear to use to protect their brains, we could help protect the brain during a stroke and ultimately help people recover,» said Joshua Bernstock, a graduate student in Dr. Hallenbeck's lab and the study's first author.

Military personnel develop valuable skills that can serve them well in a research lab, and the National Science Foundation (NSF) is offering a new funding opportunity intended to encourage them to pursue graduate studies.

Yang (Amy) Xu, a PhD candidate in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, and Aaron E. Lampano, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the Litvak Lab, contributed to the study.

In the study, postdoctoral fellows Dr. Oded Klavir (now an investigator at the University of Haifa) and Dr. Matthias Prigge, both from Yizhar's lab in the Neurobiology Department, together with departmental colleague Prof. Rony Paz and graduate student Ayelet Sarel, examined the communication between two brain regions: the amygdala and the prefrontal corteIn the study, postdoctoral fellows Dr. Oded Klavir (now an investigator at the University of Haifa) and Dr. Matthias Prigge, both from Yizhar's lab in the Neurobiology Department, together with departmental colleague Prof. Rony Paz and graduate student Ayelet Sarel, examined the communication between two brain regions: the amygdala and the prefrontal cortein the Neurobiology Department, together with departmental colleague Prof. Rony Paz and graduate student Ayelet Sarel, examined the communication between two brain regions: the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex.

Jake Carpenter - Thompson, a graduate student in neuroscience in professor Fatima Husain's lab, aided in a study of emotional processing and tinnitus