The lapses at the world - renowned infectious disease research agency are sure to raise questions about safety at other labs studying highly pathogenic agents,
including university labs that are modifying influenza strains to make them more virulent.
Not exact matches
The incentive package
includes the use of tax - free
lab space at New York colleges and
universities, as well as grants for companies that base exciting new research in the state.
A number of computing giants,
including IBM (NYSE: IBM), HP (NYSE: HPQ), and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT), are researching quantum computing, as are dozens of
university labs.
According to Citizen
Lab, a censorship watchdog at the
University of Toronto, Netsweeper's customers have allegedly
included telecom firms in a number of countries —
including Qatar, Yemen and the United Arab Emirates — that have troubled records in terms of human rights and political freedoms.
Labs may comprise workshops of several days with relevant stakeholders,
including venture capitalists, corporations, start - ups, diverse levels of governments,
universities, and research institutes.
Its competitors
include Mosa Meat, co-founded by Dr. Post and Maastricht
University, which aims to commercialise
lab - grown minced meat in 5 years.
2018 speakers
included: Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of Architecture & Design and Director of Research & Development, Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Kristina Blahnik, Chief Executive Officer, Manolo Blahnik; Joe Gebbia, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Airbnb; Kenya Hara, President, Nippon Design Center, Inc.; Thomas Heatherwick, Founder and Design Director, Heatherwick Studio; Miguel Mckelvey, Co-founder and Chief Culture Officer, WeWork Author Alice Rawsthorn; Sarah Stein Greenberg, Executive Director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (d.school), Stanford
University, Patricia Urquiola, Designer, Architect, and Founder, Studio Urquiola; and Sam Yen, Managing Director, SAP
Labs Silicon Valley and Chief Design Officer, SAP
On Thursday, Rotman announced three new locations for the Creative Destruction
Lab (CDL) program,
including the Haskayne School of Business at the
University of Calgary, which will be called Creative Destruction
Lab — Rockies.
Attendees represented a wide range of institutions,
including the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Australian Securities Investments Commission, the Abu Dhabi Global Market Financial Services Regulatory Authority, the French central bank's Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of Canada, MIT Media
Lab, and the
University of Tokyo.
Food label consulting for FDA compliance at Food
Lab, Inc. is performed by our regulatory experts
including attorneys and professors that teach food law and regulations at local
universities.
With a grant provided by Clemson
University, the Clemson Packaging program continued a systematic expansion of its packaging
lab this past summer that
included both the update and expansion of the
lab's corrugated testing equipment.
Their faculty
includes the leading specialists from Stony Brook
University, Brookhaven National
Lab, MIT, and Harvard Medical School.
These
include parochial,
university lab schools, and independently owned schools.
The company has financed 3D - printing
labs at schools,
including this one at the
University of Maryland.
DASNY also hired the consulting firm Deloitte to research potential sites for the new
lab for a now completed report that also
includes the identification of
universities and companies that might want to partner with Wadsworth on health research innovation and a biotech accelerator program.
Wayne Grody, director of the Molecular Diagnostics Laboratories at the
University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center, says his
lab plans to offer tests for 15 to 20 previously patented genes,
including those for congenital deafness and neurological diseases.
► This week's Science also
includes a review (subscription required) of
University of Hawaii, Manoa, geobiology professor Hope Jahren's scientific memoir
Lab Girl.
In addition to paying to equip the new
labs, the
university gave the Dunns funding for at least a year's worth of supplies for their research — a luxury in Turkey, where researchers usually rely on grants for all of their funds,
including start - up.
The researchers used a number of methods,
including fluorescence and electron microscopy, in collaboration with Dr. Eugenia Klein of the Institute's Microscopy Unit; a unique system in Prof. Alon's
lab for simulating blood vessels in a test tube; and in vivo imaging with Prof. Sussan Nourshargh of Queen Mary
University of London.
In September Michael Skinner of Washington State
University announced that his
lab rats inherit, epigenetically, their parents» propensity for a variety of humanlike diseases,
including breast cancer, kidney disease, and high cholesterol.
Dipak Das, director of the Cardiovascular Research Center at the
University of Connecticut Health Center (UCHC) in Farmington, and his
lab studied the beneficial health effects of wine (
including one component resveratrol, which has been linked to life extension and other health benefits) and other foods, as well as cardiology.
In addition to Hong and Sotiropoulos, other
University of Minnesota researchers who were part of this study
include civil engineering assistant professor Michele Guala, mechanical engineering Ph.D. student Mostafa Toloui, civil engineering Ph.D. student Kevin Howard, mechanical engineering student Sean Riley, St. Anthony Falls
Lab engineer James Tucker, and former post-doctoral researcher Leonardo Chamorro who is now at the
University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign.
By the summer of 2013, word of the company's ambitions was wafting through academic
labs,
including Melissa Moore's at the
University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
It
includes academic
labs at Aarhus and Aalborg
universities, and several companies,
including Wyeth (now part of Pfizer).
Uppala was subsequently joined by masses of students from premier research institutions across the country —
including the Indian Institutes of Technology; the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi; Jawaharlal Nehru
University; and the Defence Research and Development Organisation — who marched, performed street plays, and boycotted
labs.
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.
Most
universities offer an introductory class on the subject, and many of these
include field trips (you get to go hiking while your roommate is stuck in chemistry
lab).
Other main contributors
include Thomas Milner, professor of biomedical engineering in UT Austin's Cockrell School of Engineering and his
lab members; Jialing Zhang, research associate at the Eberlin Lab at UT Austin who led the experimental work with other lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cent
lab members; Jialing Zhang, research associate at the Eberlin
Lab at UT Austin who led the experimental work with other lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cent
Lab at UT Austin who led the experimental work with other
lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Cent
lab members; Anna Sorace, assistant professor at UT Austin's Dell Medical School; Chandandeep Nagi and Wendong Yu, professors of pathology at Baylor College of Medicine, and Jinsong Liu, professor of pathology at
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Other Brookhaven
Lab scientists involved in the project
include Junjie Li, Xijie Wang, Pengfei Zhu, Lijun Wu, Tatiana Konstantinova, Jing Tao, John Hill, and James Misewich, in collaboration with researchers from Rutgers
University and Princeton
University.
Our able and accomplished foursome
includes only one academic, microbiologist Carol Berkower, who teaches and heads her own
lab as an assistant professor at Towson
University, a primarily undergraduate public institution near Baltimore.
To find a job in
lab management training, Janssens recommends getting to know the people behind existing courses, as she did, and talking to a broad range of potential employers
including outfits such as hfp consulting,
university career offices, and large
labs that need a one - time instructor.
Much of the material
included in the toolkit sprang from the
labs of Robert J. Wood, Charles River Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SEAS, and chemist George M. Whitesides, Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers
University Professor, two researchers whose work has helped establish Harvard as a leader in soft robotics.
The research team,
including members of Prof. Keinan's
lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the
University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.
Labs across the country,
including one at the
University of Georgia in Athens employ genetic analysis to confirm and expand on the pathologists» findings.
Brett Baker, an assistant professor in the Department of Marine Science; Nina Dombrowski, a postdoctoral researcher in his
lab at The
University of Texas Marine Science Institute; and colleagues sequenced the DNA of oil - munching microbes to reveal the genetic potential in different bacterial species,
including ones newly identified as important to the cleanup task.
The Sahay
lab team and collaborators,
including researchers from the OHSU School of Medicine and the
University of California San Diego, generated five different CSPNs, conjugating Tat peptides to a (RADA) 2 linker and adding different numbers of phenylalanine residues.
The study team also
includes lead author Rupert Seidl of the
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (who spent his sabbatical at UW - Madison in 2015) and Daniel Donato at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a former postdoctoral researcher in Turner's
lab.
Lab safety is now a heightened concern in the contract negotiations currently under way between the
University of California and the new union representing the postdocs on its 10 campuses,
including UCLA, says UC Berkeley postdoc Matthew «Oki» O'Connor, a member of the union negotiation team.
Evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano studies the cognitive abilities of a variety of plants,
including the humble pea in her
lab at the
University of Western Australia.
Despite their benefits for wearable devices, flexible electronics
including Kim's remain cumbersome to manufacture and are currently built by hand one by one in
university labs.
Working at a small institution was vastly different from working at a large state
university, she soon found, and not just because she was teaching the equivalent of five courses per year (
including lab sections) instead of two while still having significant research expectations.
Labs that will share $ 40 million over 4 years from NHGRI (and another $ 8 million from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute),
include: a $ 5.2 million a year center at the
University of Washington, headed by Deborah Nickerson and others; a $ 2.8 million a year center at Yale
University, led by Richard Lifton and others; and a joint center with $ 4 million per year led by David Valle at the Johns Hopkins
University and Baylor's James Lupski.
Additional coauthors
include Columbia professor James Hone, Columbia graduate students Carlos Forsythe and Lei Wang; Nikolaos Tombros, a former member of the Kim
lab at Columbia, now at the
University of Groningen in the Netherlands; Kenji Watanabe, chief researchers in optoelectronic materials at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan; and Takashi Taniguchi, group leader in the Ultra-high Pressure Processes Group at NIMS.
Workers in
university labs —
including 110,000 graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, plus uncounted undergraduates and technicians — are 11 times more likely to get hurt in a
university lab than in an industrial
lab, according to U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration statistics.
The article describes the work of Poon's interdisciplinary research team, which
included John Ho and Alexander Yeh, electrical engineering graduate students in Poon's
lab; Yuji Tanabe, a visiting scholar; and Ramin Beygui, associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford
University Medical Center.
The
university's vice president for research, computer scientist Hans Jürgen Prömel, says the move will give researchers topflight
labs and put them in the same complex with advanced nonuniversity researchers,
including those at the BESSY II Synchrotron and the Max Born Institute for Non-Linear Optics.
Activists are also trying to block or slow down other proposed BSL - 3 and BSL - 4
labs at various sites around the country,
including the
University of California, Davis; the
University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston; and National Institutes of Health (NIH) facilities in Bethesda, Maryland, and Hamilton, Montana.
A Rice
University lab is using an industrial laser to write graphene patterns on everyday objects,
including food, cloth, cardboard and wood.
The latest results
include two studies from Amy Wagers's
lab at Harvard
University.
The panel sent out more than 30 information requests to
universities, companies, and abortion clinics before issuing three formal subpoenas in February to the abortion provider Southwestern Women's Options (SWO), the tissue procurement company StemExpress, and UNM, whose health sciences center
includes labs that work with fetal tissue from abortions performed by SWO.