Sentences with phrase «leads a lab on»

But in general, instruction is both lively and practical, such as in one classroom where a biology teacher, donning a lab coat, leads a lab on extracting DNA from strawberries, or a ninth - grade math class in which a teacher integrates a Texas Instruments navigator system into every part of her lesson; she has her class turn assignments in via a graphing calculator and checks for comprehension with every student in real time.

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In these lean, early days, Other Lab has only three full - time employees: Griffith, the mechanical engineer and so - called lead scientist; Jim McBride, a fellow MIT postdoc and the house physicist (who happens to be on vacation during my visit); and Jonathan (Jach) Bachrach, yet another MIT guy who is technically a software engineer but like the other two has a far broader purview.

LONDON and NEW YORK, May 3, 2018 / PRNewswire / — Motive Labs, the global innovation firm focused on building the next generation of financial technology, announced today that it has formed a strategic partnership based on value creation with Inforalgo, a leading provider of data connectivity and...

On any given day, Canada's leading researchers unravel the mysteries of biology in state - of - the - art labs throughout the Toronto Medical Discovery Tower and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research; early - stage science and technology companies put business plans into action in the MaRS Incubator; organizations across the innovation spectrum grow their businesses in the Heritage Building — the original brick façade of the old Toronto General Hospital.

Theranos will pull the plug on its clinical labs and Theranos Wellness centers in California, Arizona and Texas, leading to the axing of 340 jobs.

As Varun Bhanot, PR and business development lead at UK flexible workspace marketplace Hubble, explained: «Here at Hubble, we've had a number of corporations approach us for specific coworking space — some to use as a separate department arm for their company, others to set up a specific innovation lab to work on bleeding edge products.»

It uses systems and design thinking, building on leading practices from similar innovation labs around the world.

Bob will be leading a lab at the missionSHIFT conference this summer at Ridgecrest Conference Center in North Carolina on July 12 - 15.

The Cornell Food and Brand Lab is led by Dr. Brian Wansink, whom I've referred to here as a «master of lunchroom trickery:» Wansink is the leading expert on how subtle changes to the physical layout of cafeterias can induce people to make healthier choices without being aware of the manipulation.

But they are likely to have more power to influence a Conservative - led government than a Labour one because the Con - Lib policy preference gap is greater than the Lab - Lib one, especially on Europe.

I arrive at that figure by taking the current CON - LAB lead of 7 % in the latest polls and adding an expected 2.5 % underestimate in the Conservative lead over Labour based on my analysis of historical polling errors.

Here is the lead by constituency on the local votes from the 10 most marginal Conservative held seats in 2015 and Reading East / West (seats with ward boundary changes, no local elections in 2015 or either Con or Lab not running in more than one ward have been omitted), the actual majority is in brackets:

After traveling to learn techniques at leading labs in the United Kingdom and France in the 1990s, Jedryczka and her students have been asked to pass their knowledge on to colleagues in Russia, Sweden, Portugal — and China, where Jedryczka has been awarded a «Friendship Award» for her work with rapeseed farmers in the rural Anhui region.

«Humans have had far - reaching impacts on ecosystems,» said author Tyler Coverdale, a researcher in the lab of lead author Mark Bertness, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.

When the frightened creatures froze in place and covered the cavity leading to the gills with their tentacles, the voltage in the water nearby dropped by about 80 %, the researchers report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Subsequent lab tests on two types of sharks revealed that the tactic works beautifully: When the researchers generated voltages to simulate the presence of a resting cuttlefish, the sharks could detect the electronic equipment from a distance of 20 centimeters and struck at it 62 % of the time.

«To find other materials with similar properties, we focused on the feasibility of exfoliation,» explains Nicolas Mounet, a researcher in the THEOS lab and lead author of the study.

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.

He and Leonia Bozzacco, a research affiliate in Charles M. Rice's lab, led the study, which appears in Cell on May 4.

Focusing on adiponectin led Dr. Medina's lab to protein kinase A or «PKA» — a protein that, when activated by adiponectin, suppresses the fatty acids that myeloma cells need, leading to their demise.

Hadly's work on the course led her to commission a painting by Cheng (Lily) Li, an artist and technician in her lab.

«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.

If you make a mistake once, you end up getting reinforcement through the feedback loop,» said Manuel Müller, a postdoctoral researcher in the Muir lab and lead author on the study.

Now, having proven himself among the world's leading scientists, Palatnik is taking on what is probably an even greater challenge: setting up a lab in Argentina, where he intends to do research that competes with the world's best.

«We make the bubbles and then take them to Dr. Liu's lab to get the resonance levels and make the measurements,» said Zhang, lead author on a paper describing their work, which appears today (Nov. 2) in Scientific Reports, an online, open access journal.

This leads naturally to hypotheses on the evolution of development, that can be explored in the lab.»

This discovery of these oversized versions of soldier ants, whose job is to defend the nest, led researchers to create their own supersoldier ants in the lab with the help of a hormone, and, by doing so, offer an explanation for how ants, and possibly other social insects, take on specific forms with dedicated jobs within their colonies.

The policy — which would limit investigators to the equivalent of three NIH grants — is based largely on an agency - led analysis of lab productivity.

The experiment, led by Dr. Lavi Secundo, together with Dr. Kobi Snitz and Kineret Weissler, all members of the lab of Prof. Noam Sobel of the Weizmann Institute's Neurobiology Department, developed a complex, multidimensional mathematical formula for determining, based on the subjects» ratings, how similar any two odors are to one another in the human sense of smell.

- The salespeople who call on your lab: All companies, especially the larger reagents or lab - products firms, use a system where a sales manager provides leads to the sales force about start - ups.

Having a lab book full of brilliant results will only lead to Nobel Prizes (or on a more mundane level, continued financing) if the information is disseminated among the wider scientific community.

«It would be very exciting to see labs take on a more natural, human quality,» says Pamela Laurence, a feng shui trainer and leading consultant based in New York.

Led by Hazel Barton, UA associate professor of biology and recognized as having one of the world's preeminent cave microbiology labs, the research points to a group of fungi related to WSN, which appears as a white, powdery substance on the muzzles, ears and wings of infected bats and gives them the appearance they've been dunked in powdered sugar.

We hope this leads to the ability to design, study and test new therapies for every patient on their own cells in the lab, leading to new treatments and breakthroughs in personalized medicine for individuals with a variety of lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis,» explained lead author Katherine McCauley, a PhD student at BUSM.

«The intimate skin interface created by this wearable, skin - like microfluidic system enables new measurement capabilities not possible with the kinds of absorbent pads and sponges currently used in sweat collection,» said John A. Rogers, who led the multi-institution research team that created the «lab on the skin.»

However, in addition to HDACs, the human body has nearly 300 enzymes that also depend on zinc and therefore are potentially also inhibited by HDAC inhibitors, notes leading author Zheng Sun, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in the Lazar lab.

This is due in no small part to the runaway pace of progress in biotechnology, which has led to innovations such as chemistry labs shrunken down to fit on a computer chip.

This evidence led the Berger and Adams labs to work together to find out what was going on.

When the time comes, they're expected to become leaders in their labs and then in their fields, take charge of university courses, serve their institutions and professional organizations on committees and in leadership roles, and eventually, perhaps, lead a department or even a research institution.

Scientists at other institutions studying the bacterium and its effect on people with CF said the research was important and indicated others will follow the lead of Whiteley's lab.

«The result was an extensive inhibition of tumor growth and prevention of metastasis to the lung in HER2 - positive animal models of breast cancer,» notes Navasona Krishnan, Ph.D., a postdoctoral investigator in the Tonks lab who performed many of the experiments and is lead author on the paper reporting the results.

«I decided to take on the challenge of developing a system that can see through actual fog,» says Guy Satat, a graduate student in the MIT Media Lab, who led the research.

This means, for instance, that «if you've learned that oranges are good, the smell of a tangerine will also get you thinking about food,» says Robert Campbell, a postdoctoral researcher in the Turner lab and lead author on the new study.

The study results also suggest that some fungicides, which have led to the mortality of honey bee larvae in lab studies, could have toxic effects on colony survival in the field.

Lead author Neha Rani, a postdoctoral scholar in the Kosik Lab, identified several binding sites on lncND for another type of RNA called a microRNA.

A scientific expedition in Panama in the early 2000s, also led by WHOI scientists, led to the construction of the «Liquid Jungle Lab» on a remote island to enhance oceanographic research.

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.

Francesco Panerai of Analytical Mechanical Associates Inc., a materials scientist leading a series of X-ray experiments at Berkeley Lab for NASA Ames Research Center, discusses a 3 - D visualization (shown on screens) of a heat shield material's microscopic structure in simulated spacecraft atmospheric entry conditions.

«Tunable infrared OPA light sources today cost around a $ 100,000 and take up a good bit of space on a tabletop or lab bench,» said study lead author Yu Zhang, a former Rice graduate student at LANP.

Dr. Andreas Martin Lisewski, an instructor in Lichtarge's lab at Baylor, served as the leading author on the report.

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.