Sentences with phrase «lead author of the study now»

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«Most of the human genome sequence is now known, but we still don't know what most of these sequences mean,» said Sheng Zhong, bioengineering professor at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering and the study's lead author.

«We were looking at two questions: how could we identify the oil on shore, now four years after the spill, and how the oil from the spill was weathering over time,» explained Christoph Aeppli, Senior Research Scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine, and lead author of the study reported in Environmental Science & Technology.

«Containers are just now being studied as part of the cloud infrastructure, but our research indicates that how they function in the cloud is critical to developing and distributing future computer systems that maximize efficiency,» said Ali Anwar, lead author on the paper that details the research and a Ph.D. candidate in Virginia Tech's Department of Computer Science in the College of Engineering.

«We know from our sleep loss studies that when you're sleep deprived, it negatively affects weight and metabolism in part due to late - night eating, but now these early findings, which control for sleep, give a more comprehensive picture of the benefits of eating earlier in the day,» said Namni Goel, PhD, a research associate professor of psychology in Psychiatry in the division of Sleep and Chronobiology, and lead author of the ongoing study.

«We now have an independent measurement of these emission sources that does not rely on what was known or thought known,» said Chris McLinden, an atmospheric scientist with Environment and Climate Change Canada in Toronto and lead author of the study published this week in Nature Geosciences.

«Colombia is now only second to Brazil in the number of known Zika infections,» says study lead author Matthew Aliota, a research scientist in the UW - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM).

«It is now time to evaluate how to make the most of satellite and in situ data to help us understand ocean acidification, and to establish where remotely sensed data can make the best contribution,» Peter Land, lead author of the new study and researcher at Plymouth Marine Laboratory, said in a press release accompanying the new study.

The study began with a collaboration among the two lead authors — Harrison Brand, PhD, a research fellow in Talkowski's lab, who sequenced and analyzed the genomes of patients with arhinia, and Natalie Shaw, MD, then with the MGH Reproductive Endocrine Unit and now at the National Institute for Environmental Health Science, who was investigating the lack of reproductive development in a few patients with arhinia.

► On Saturday, David Malakoff reported that Michael LaCour, «[t] he lead author of a now - retracted study of voter persuasion and gay marriage published by Science,» released a 23 - page response «to some of the allegations that led to the retraction.»

Now ancient DNA has rewritten the evolutionary history of this iconic group,» said first author Peter Heintzman, who led the study as a postdoctoral researcher at UC Santa Cruz.

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.

«This is important in the field because epistasis has been proposed as a source of «missing heritability,»» said the study's lead author, Joanna Thornycroft, a former graduate student at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, now at Wellcome Sanger Institute.

Until this trial came out we didn't know if it was going to be clinically better or not and now we know it is better,» said lead author Keipp Talbot, M.D., assistant professor of Medicine, who served as coordinating investigator for the more than 100 study sites.

Now however, we see that a company jumping on the corporate social responsibility bandwagon just for show or greenwashing doesn't fool its employees,» said Dr. Magda Donia, Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management and lead author of the Applied Psychology: An International Review study.

«We had theorized prior to this study that differences in communication would exist among members of the health care team, but the magnitude of the differences was surprising to us, along with the disagreements among attendings, many in the same division,» says lead author Deepak Palakshappa, MD, chief pediatric resident at the time of the study and now an instructor at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

«Until now there has been no good answer as to how long children could be expected to live after liver transplantation,» said Josefina Martinelli, Paediatric Liver Unit, AP - HP and lead author of the study.

For the new study, researchers in Diamond's laboratory, led by first author Helen Lazear, PhD, now at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, tested five strains of the Zika virus in the mice: the original strain acquired from Uganda in 1947; three strains that circulated in Senegal in the 1980s; and the French Polynesian strain, which caused infections in 2013 and is nearly identical to the strain causing the current outbreak.

«The big question now is to figure out what internal signal the sleep switch responds to,» says Dr Diogo Pimentel of Oxford University, the other lead author of the study.

«Our results highlight the importance of the interactive effects of vegetation type, temperature and moisture in determining of the response of soil decomposition to climate change,» says lead author Julia Bradley - Cook, who conducted the study as part of her doctorate in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth and who is now a Congressional Science Fellow.

«Two generations ago, people were interring waste in different areas of the world, and now climate change is modifying those sites,» said William Colgan, a climate and glacier scientist at York U and lead author of the new study.

«Many studies show the integrative function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in relatively simple cognitive tasks, and we believe that this relatively basic process forms the foundation for far more complex forms of behavior and decision - making, such as norm enforcement,» said lead author Joshua Buckholtz, now an assistant professor of psychology at Harvard.

It is one of the heaviest - known elements, yet it does not occur naturally because all of its isotopes are radioactive and decay rapidly on a geological time scale,» said the study's lead author, François Tissot, UChicago PhD» 15, now a W.O. Crosby Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

«Just like a Tetris game, where we manipulate the game pieces with the aim of creating a horizontal line of several blocks, we can now build long nanotubes block by block,» said Amani Hariri, a PhD student in McGill's Department of Chemistry and lead author of the study.

«You shouldn't be testing everybody, but if there are reasons to believe that a test for H. pylori may come back positive, and it does come back positive, you should go on to treat,» says Dr. Traci Murakami, previous gastroenterology fellow at the UA and graduate of the clinical and translational research graduate certificate at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman School of Public Health, now an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead author of the study.

«Temperature was a key cause of reef collapse and modern temperatures are now within several degrees of the maximum these reefs experienced over their 6,750 year history,» said Lauren Toth, the study's lead author, who was a graduate student at Florida Tech during the study.

Former Buck postdoctoral fellow Di Chen, PhD, now an associate professor at the Model Animal Research Center, Nanjing University, China, lead author of the study, said that the positive feedback loop (DAF - 16 via the AMPK complex) originated in the germline tissue of worms.

Gillian Bedard, now in medical school, was the lead author of the study when she was an undergraduate student at Waterloo.

«In many ways, the atmospheric studies we're doing now on these gaseous «hot Jupiter» kinds of planets are test beds for how we're going to do atmospheric studies of terrestrial, Earth - like planets,» said Thomas Beatty, assistant research professor of astronomy at Penn State and the lead author of the study.

Groesbeck, a 2013 Faculty of Environment graduate and this study's lead author, is now a University of Washington research assistant.

«Regular physical exercise has long been shown to have heart health benefits, and now we can say exercise also may help improve memory for people with mild cognitive impairment,» says Ronald Petersen, M.D., Ph.D., lead author, director of the Alzheimer's Disease Research Center, Mayo Clinic, and the Mayo Clinic Study of Aging.

Within minutes, it verified the identity of the study's lead author, Sophie Zaaijer, a former member of NYGC and now a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech.

«Green design incorporates many aspects that could reduce environmental exposures and improve health, such as the removal of pollution sources and the addition of exhaust ventilation,» said lead author Meryl Colton, a researcher at Harvard Chan School when the study was done and now a medical student at the University of Colorado.

«In the world of batteries, this is a huge improvement over conventional cathodes,» said lead author Jinhyuk Lee, who was a postdoctoral fellow at Ceder's lab during the study, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at MIT.

More research is needed because «looking at both psychological and biological responses to stress will lead to a more complete understanding of why we have the racial / ethnic achievement gap,» said study lead author, Dorainne Levy, who began the research while at Northwestern and is now a post-doctoral scholar at Indiana University.

«This information yields new insights into how sperm stem cells function and develop under normal circumstances,» says the study's lead author Bradley Cairns, PhD, senior director of basic science at HCI and professor and chair of oncological sciences at the U of U. «We have built a very important framework we can now use to help us understand what happens when things go wrong, resulting in issues like infertility and cancer in men.»

«Hundreds of scientific studies now show that organic ag should play a role in feeding the world» said Reganold, lead author of the study.

«We also found that couples in which both individuals have equal levels of education are now less likely to divorce than those in which husbands have more education than their wives,» said Christine R. Schwartz, lead author of the study and an associate professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

That means so - called open - access publishing has reached a «tipping point» and will now accelerate, suggests Éric Archambault, the lead author of the study and president of Science - Metrix Inc. in Montreal, Canada.

«Up to now, no one has been able to say if multiple TBIs, which are common among combat veterans, are associated with higher suicide risk or not,» says the study's lead author, Craig J. Bryan, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Utah and associate director of the National Center for Veterans Studies.

The lead author of the study is Tiantian Li, an epidemiologist now at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, who did the work while serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Columbia Climate and Health Program at Mailman, which Kinney directs.

«We are now seeing summer speeds more than 4 times what they were in the 1990s on a glacier which at that time was believed to be one of the fastest, if not the fastest, glacier in Greenland,» says Ian Joughin, a researcher at the Polar Science Center, University of Washington and lead - author of the study.

«Most practitioners think of these as two isolated and very different conditions, but we now understand gestational diabetes and postpartum depression should be considered together,» says Michael E. Silverman, PhD, an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and lead author of the study.

«Our results are a mixed bag,» said lead author Matthew Luskin, who conducted the research for his graduate studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and is now a research fellow with the Smithsonian Institution and based at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore.

A study by the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Save Our Seas Shark Research Center and Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine just published in the journal BMC Genomics (lead author, postdoctoral associate Nicholas Marra,) now provides the first evidence that some shark and ray immunity genes have undergone evolutionary changes that may be tied to these novel immune system abilities.

Paúl Velazco, PhD, who formerly worked at The Field Museum and now is with the American Museum of Natural History in New York, is the lead author on the new study.

Lead author Dr Rosalie Tostevin completed the study analyses as part of her PhD with UCL Earth Sciences, and is now in the Department of Earth Sciences at Oxford University.

The study's lead author, computer scientist Amy McGovern of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, now plans to incorporate an AI algorithm into the weather service's hail forecasts.

Blood from the umbilical cord «is one of the best measures of contaminants being transferred from mother to fetus,» said Sharon Sagiv, lead author of the study and an epidemiologist who now works at Boston University.

«Inconspicuous creatures often play big roles in supporting productive ecosystems,» said Matt Whalen, the study's lead author who conducted this work while at VIMS and is now at the University of California, Davis.