Sentences with phrase «in genomics labs»

Designer organisms created from scratch in genomics labs won't run amok anytime soon, according to scientists speaking at the first public meeting of President Obama's bioethics commission held here in the nation's capital last week.

That's why the researcher started taking annual photos of her moles back when he was a Stanford graduate student working in a genomics lab.

Not exact matches

So instead of, say, plucking a rose and extracting its oil to create a rose - scented perfume, a biologist in a lab can recreate the genomic sequence that's responsible for creating a rose scent and insert it into brewer's yeast.

Ontario Genomics connects companies, researchers and policy - makers to support the early stages of genomics technologies» move from the lab to solve real - world problems in the clinic and in industry.

These days, as assistant professor in genomics and systems biology at Harvard University, she usually is listed last on papers that come out of her lab.

«The diagnostics lab Baylor Genetics is one of the pioneers in this new era of clinical genomics - supported medical practice and disease gene discovery research,» Lupski said.

Maine also approved bond measures to create an animal and plant disease and insect control lab, build a genomics and disease research center, and modernize and expand a biological lab specializing in tissue repair and regeneration.

Enormous projects such as ENCODE (for humans and mice) or modENCODE (for other lab model systems, such as the fly Drosophila or the worm C. elegans) have been devoted to collecting these data in order to analyse and interpret them in the framework of genomic data and to form hypotheses about functions and relations.

Burke, whose lab studies the genomic basis of evolutionary divergence within the sunflower family, was involved in the genetic mapping upon which the genome assembly was based and oversaw the whole genome re-sequencing of the 80 sunflower lines described in the paper.

Hilde Janssens currently works as a lab manager in the laboratory of a junior principal investigator (PI) at the Centre for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona, Spain — except when she's teaching other scientists how to manage their own laboratories.

So the researchers used the genomic data to synthesize the relevant bits of DNA and inserted them into Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, which can both be grown and studied in the lab.

First, an analysis of genomic data from 6,000 patients with autism spectrum disorders, 1,000 patients with bipolar disorder, and 2,500 patients with schizophrenia by co-first author Pierre - Marie Martin, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher in Cheyette's lab, revealed that disruptive mutations in the main neuronal form of DIXDC1 were present about 80 percent more often in psychiatric patients (0.9 percent had mutations) compared to healthy controls (0.5 percent had mutations).

However, the same Yale lab reports in a separate paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences dramatic differences between species in genomic regions populated by pseudogenes, molecular fossils of working genes.

«NYGC is thrilled to have this work be our first published example of the explosive power of collaborations between deeply invested biologists like those in the Simon lab including Elana Simon, and thoughtful bioinformatics scientists like Nicolas Robine and NYGC team, who worked together so effectively with the tools of genomic sequencing and analysis to discover this new chimeric protein and cancer target,» says Robert Darnell, head of Rockefeller's Laboratory of Molecular Neuro - Oncology, HHMI investigator, and president and scientific director of NYGC.

Although that day is still a long way off, it's much closer than it used to be, thanks to this year's first steps toward personalized medicine, says Kathy Hudson, director of Johns Hopkins University's Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C. «For a long time, all the action in genomics was in the lab,» she says.

For each species (or group), the authors describe possible applications in lab research; summarize husbandry, genetics, and genomics; list other resources; and provide basic protocols for work with the organism.

Buckler's lab and many others have begun to use what is considered the next step in molecular breeding, called genomic selection.

GeNeYouS, the Genomics Network for Young Scientists was set up to enhance interactions between young genomics scientists in The Netherlands, so they can help each other, both in the lab and in their career.

Evan Paull, a graduate student in Stuart's lab at UC Santa Cruz (now at Columbia University), led the computational analyses, which involved integrating the phosphoproteomic data with genomic and gene expression datasets to provide a unified view of the activated signaling pathways in late stage prostate cancer.

Recipients of 2018 Sloan Research Fellows will receive an award of $ 65,000, which Aylward will use to fund personnel in his lab and to purchase a server for computational genomic research.

The authors of the papers — Daniel L. Kaplan, associate professor at Florida State University who heads a genomics lab, and Irina Bruck, assistant scholar scientist in Kaplan's lab — also received a correction in JBC this month, which cites image duplication.

This is the ancient - DNA lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana - Champaign, tucked in a corner of the basement at the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology.

DNALC - style desks were installed and a full set of equipment arrived just in time for Executive Director Dave Micklos to hold a workshop to introduce PSHS teachers to methods for lab instruction in molecular genetics and genomics.

The collaboration, involving the labs of Douglas Turner, professor of chemistry; Luis Martinez - Sobrido, associate professor of microbiology and immunology; and two researchers in Poland, reported that «antisense» compounds targeting one of the virus» eight genomic RNA segments caused a five - to 25-fold reduction of influenza A virus in cell cultures.

Rod Olarte joined the lab in June 2014 to work on a genomics projects related to Candida — Bacteria interactions.

Essentially all labs in the world are applying some aspects of genomics to their analyses, and having more people trained in using these tools is important.

The well - received event included a panel discussion on genomic medicine, discussions with clinical and research personnel and tours of lab and clinical space in the NE building.

On sabbatical leave in Ellson Chen's lab at Applied Biosystems, Inc. (1995 - 1997) he sequenced the genome of Ureaplasma parvum and began his study of mycoplasma genomics.

JAX researchers at the Bar Harbor - based lab's Farmington, Conn., genomic research facility and collaborators in Singapore defined the composition of cancerous cells from 11 colorectal tumors and their adjacent noncancerous cells.

Following that he moved back to the United States to join the Neuroscience Discovery department at Amgen in San Francisco, where he applied his wet lab (molecular and cellular neurobiology) and dry lab (human genetics and integrative genomics) expertise to drug hunting for AD.

UCSF labs with expertise in virology, placental development, brain development, genomics and blood safety have already come together to expand on these pilot studies.

He currently, holds a joint post-doctoral research position in the labs of Peter Kharchenko, Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School and Dr. Roy Perlis, Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Mar. 5, 2009 Kristi L. Bennett, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Eng lab in the Genomic Medicine Institute was selected for one of the AACR - AFLAC, Inc..

Dr. Massagué gave his ambitious new colleague free rein to pursue the molecular mechanism of cancer metastasis even though no research of this sort had ever been attempted in his lab, and Dr. Kang had limited background in cancer research and no experience in genomics.

GMI stars in National Geographic TV Special «Lincoln's Secret Killer» which premiered on President's Day, 2011 «Lincoln's Secret Killer,» a documentary prepared by National Geographic, premiered on Monday, February 21, at 10:00 pm on The National Geographic Channel, featuring Charis Eng, MD, PhD, Hardis Chair, Genomic Medicine Institute and GMI's Director of the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare, and members of her lab, Mohammed S. Orloff, PhD, Project Scientist, and Todd Romigh, MS, Lab Managlab, Mohammed S. Orloff, PhD, Project Scientist, and Todd Romigh, MS, Lab ManagLab Manager.

December 16, 2013 — Kylie Drake, PhD, Research Associate in the Aldred Lab of the Genomic Medicine Institute, recently won two prestigious awards for her work to cure pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

Our lab carries out patient - relevant research to increase genetic and genomic information resulting in intimate knowledge of our genes which allows creation of a roadmap for prevention, leading to graceful aging.

They then worked with researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, one of the world's foremost genomics research labs, to analyze the genetic data of Arab populations in comparison with European and East Asian populations in relation to susceptibility to rheumatoid arthritis.

Her lab has actively participated in the major cancer genomics projects, including the International Cancer Genomics Consortia (ICGC) and The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and Núria has taken leading roles within these initiatives.

As part of Sanford Health, the largest rural non-profit health care system in the nation, we can integrate research and patient care so that information flows seamlessly — translational genomic research discoveries are accelerated into clinical applications, such as new treatments and diagnostics to benefit patients, and clinical data about patient response flows back to the labs to inform more discoveries.

Team Identifies Genetic Abnormalities in Stem Cell Lines — The study, from the Loring lab, suggests the need for frequent genomic monitoring of stem cells to assure their stability and clinical safety.

Participating in this open call were Adrian Cheok (Mixed Reality Lab) from Singapore, Bernard Lahousse (Food Pairing) from Belgium, Matthieu Louis (Centre for Genomic Regulation) and Begoña Alfaro (AZTI - Tecnalia) from Spain, as well as Zach Mainen (Champalimaud Foundation) from Portugal, Irene Miguel - Aliaga (MRC Clinical Sciences Centre - Imperial College London), Charles Spence (University of Oxford) and Stephen O'Rahilly (University of Cambridge) from the United Kingdom, plus Alex Pouget (Geneva University) from Switzerland, Dana Small (The John B. Pierce Laboratory), Leslie Vosshall (Rockefeller University), Daphne Bavelier (University of Rochester) and Charles Zuker (Columbia University) from the United States; together with Noam Sobel (Weizmann University) from Israel.

A team led by Sekar Kathiresan — founder of the Myocardial Infarction Genetics Consortium, institute member and co-director of the Medical and Populations Genetics Program at the Broad Institute, and director of the Center for Genomic Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital — and Rajat Gupta, a postdoctoral research fellow in Kathiresan's lab, recently revisited this spot in the genome to map it and determine the mechanisms by which one DNA variant could affect so many disorders.

The Jorgensen Lab recently developed a modular plasmid assembly toolkit called SapTrap to improve CRISPR genomic tagging in C. elegans.

In last week's issue of Science, Melissa Gymrek and colleagues from the lab of Yaniv Erlich (Whitehead) report a method for the triangulation the identity of a sample donor using genomic data and public databases.

He is currently collaborating with researchers in the lab on various projects related to HIV and ZIKA, including analyses regarding genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics.

Dr. Vamsi guided the development of the NGS analysis and clinical genomics interpretation and reporting software platforms used in research and clinical labs worldwide built on his scientific experience in evolutionary genomics and genome assembly algorithms gained through his work experience and Ph.D at Penn State University.

Interns in the Mueller lab work on a variety of bioinformatics and genomics projects and gain experience in the following areas: genome assembly, structural and functional annotation, biochemical pathways, comparative genomics, ontology development and data presentation and visualization.

Major areas of activity in our lab include 1) identification and characterization of Sgenes, 2) genomic analyses to identify the diversity of TAL effectors in pathogen populations and understand their evolution, and 3) structural and biochemical studies to better harness the unique properties of these proteins for applications such as targeted gene regulation and genome editing.

Jaclyn A Biegel, PhD, FACMG is the Division Chief of Genomic Medicine and the Director of the Center for Personalized Medicine in the Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine at Children's Hospital Los Angeles and Professor of Clinical Pathology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California.