Sentences with phrase «led lab scientist»

Living the Issue 8 June 2007 A family health crisis led lab scientist Adil Shamoo to a new passion and a new career in bioethics.

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Momo Vuyisich, the company's chief scientist, led the team that developed the technology at Los Alamos Lab, which co-owns the technology along with the startup.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

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.

When the headhunter contacted him months before, he wouldn't tell Eckert much except that the company had been founded by famed scientist Rodney Brooks, who, until a few years earlier, had led MIT's computer - science and artificial - intelligence lab.

Hi, I'm Bridgette, the Lead Scientist here at Experimental Mommy Labs.

What the IECS awardees share is that they all are leading biomedical scientists, spent time training in the United States, and established their own labs within the past 7 years.

A new, highly permeable carbon capture membrane developed by scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could lead to more efficient ways of separating carbon dioxide from power plant exhaust, preventing the greenhouse gas from entering the atmosphere and contributing to climate change.

These in operando microscopy techniques, led in part by Brookhaven Lab materials scientists Dong Su, Feng Wang, and Eric Stach, will image reactions as they unfold in liquid environments.

A team led by animal scientists Steven Stice of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. and James Robl, an animal scientist at the University of Massachusetts, both in Amherst, added foreign DNA to lab - grown cow fetal cells.

The team also looked at changes in the genetic sequence of the Zika NS1 protein over time, noted David L. Akey, a research scientist in Smith's lab and the study's other lead author.

In many ways, the staff scientist position offers the opportunity to grow and learn while preserving the high points of research that can get lost in the grind of leading a lab.

It may not seem like a material as thin as an atom could hide any surprises, but a research team led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) discovered an unexpected magnetic property in a two - dimensional material.

Now, an international team of scientists led by Stewart Cole's lab at EPFL's Global Health Institute have isolated, sequenced and analyzed the genomes of 154 strains of M. leprae from around the world.

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.

«This is one of the first times that people have taken geoengineering out of the lab and into the field,» lead scientist Matthew Watson said Tuesday during a press conference in London.

According to a new study led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and at the University of California, Berkeley, electrons in vanadium dioxide can conduct electricity without conducting heat.

Other leading scientists leave the details of basic research to graduate students or postdocs, but Melton spends as much time as possible working at a private lab bench adjacent to his office.

Prattichizzo's lab has led «a revolution in the topic of virtual touch,» says Miguel Otaduy, a computer scientist at Rey Juan Carlos University in Madrid.

They included: Bill Ghiorse, who led someEnvironmental Protection Agency research into subsurface bacteria thateat toxic waste; Duane Moser, a lab wizard and avid spelunker; SvetlanaKotelnikova, a Russian scientist working in Sweden; Mary DeFlaun ofEnvirogen; and Jim Fredrickson, who has isolated many deep - bacteriacultures while working at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.

«This finding could change the way we look at phase transformations within the cathode and the resulting loss of capacity in this class of material,» said Alpesh Khushalchand Shukla, a scientist at Berkeley Lab's Molecular Foundry, and lead author of the study.

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.

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.

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.

The causes of such unpredictable results, Harris said, can include bad ingredients in the lab, including contaminated and misidentified cell lines; poor research design, including insufficient numbers of mice in animal studies; statistical error and overreach, including «HARKing» (hypothesizing after the results are known), a push beyond the limits of the data; and funding pressures, which can lead scientists to hype or exaggerate their results to remain competitive for additional grant money.

«Some scientists did not think silicene could exist,» says physicist Guy Le Lay of the University of Provence, in Marseille, France, who led one of two teams that forged the material in the lab.

An international collaboration of scientists led by Omar Yaghi, a chemist with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has developed a technique they dubbed «gas adsorption crystallography» that provides a new way to study the process by which metal - organic frameworks (MOFs)-- 3D crystals with extraordinarily large internal surface areas — are able to store immense volumes of gases such a carbon dioxide, hydrogen and methane.

The work, led by scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and Michigan State University (MSU), will appear in the June 23 issue of the journal Science.

«We can combine our cells with genetic tools to introduce other functionalities into these living cells,» says Wen Wang, the paper's lead author and a former research scientist in MIT's Media Lab and Department of Chemical Engineering.

A team of scientists in Walsh's lab led by Wyss Postdoctoral Fellow Giuk Lee, Ph.D. performed the study with an exosuit that incorporated flexible wires connecting apparel anchored to the back of the thigh and waist belt to an external actuation unit.

HZB - scientist Emad Aziz, who leads the Joint lab between HZB and Freie Universität Berlin, has developed and installed a new tool to investigate ultrafast dynamics in solutions and at interfaces with the use of ultrashort laser pulses.

In a study led by Xiang Zhang, a faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division, the research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate «phase mismatch - free nonlinear light,» meaning the generated light waves move through the material gaining strength in all directions.

This study was led by Robert Ritchie, a materials scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and Caltech's William Johnson, one of the pioneers in the field of bulk metallic glass fabrication.

In a study led by Alexander Pines, a senior faculty scientist with Berkeley Lab's Materials Sciences Division and UC Berkeley's Glenn T. Seaborg Professor of Chemistry, researchers recorded the first bulk room - temperature NMR hyperpolarization of carbon - 13 nuclei in diamond in situ at arbitrary magnetic fields and crystal orientations.

Chu said he feels «personally» the anguish of the DUSEL team, led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the DOE lab that Chu directed before coming to DOE in January 2009.

Bing Liu, a student from Nanjing Agricultural University in China who's doing research in Asseng's lab, is the lead author for the study, which includes nearly 50 scientists worldwide.

The findings were made by an international team of researchers led by Ms Caitlin Gionfriddo and Dr John Moreau from the University of Melbourne, and also included scientists from the Centre for Systems Genomics at the University of Melbourne, the US Geological Survey and Lawrence Livermore National Lab.

In previous research, Quaggin's lab showed that deleting the gene in mouse models led to glaucoma, but the scientists didn't know how mutations impairing the gene affected humans.

Back in their labs, scientists led by biochemist Robert Hanus of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague went on to show that the blue termites always had shorter, worn - down mandibles than others from the same species, indicating that they were older.

Now, scientists who are members of the Center for Computational Study of Excited - State Phenomena in Energy Materials (C2SEPEM) a new energy materials - related science center based at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), have solved a mystery that could lead to gains in efficiency.

Thus, a group of scientists led by Prof. Oliver Lieleg, professor for Biomechanics and head of the «Biopolymers and Bio-Interfaces» lab at the Munich School of BioEngineering, had the idea to apply the missing mucin directly to the contact lens.

«This suggests that point mutations [in mtDNA] aren't involved in aging - related pathology,» says Marc Vermulst, the study's lead author and a doctoral student in the lab of cancer research scientist Lawrence Loeb.

Now a team of researchers, led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, reports in this week's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that it has identified just such a drug in the lab: indazole chloride (Ind - Cl).

What's striking is this pair - dominance all the way to lead,» says Doug Higinbotham, a staff scientist at Jefferson Lab and a lead coauthor on the paper.

«This discovery reverses food allergies in mice, and we have many people with allergies volunteering their own cells for us to use in lab testing to move this research forward,» said professor John Gordon, lead scientist behind the discovery just published in the current issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

So in 2013 the nonprofit Center for Open Science in Charlottesville, Virginia, which had led a replication project for psychology papers, teamed up with Science Exchange of Palo Alto, a service that matches scientists with contract labs that do experiments for hire.

Other scientists at Bell Labs have made scientific breakthroughs leading to advances such as the invention of the transistor, Chu said.

Scientists at M.I.T. Media Lab's Biomechatronics Group have, with funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), developed an exoskeleton that promises to not only lessen the load of weary travelers but also to advance research that will ultimately lead to robotic limbs that improve the strength and mobility of amputees.

Following a brief «tour» through the years leading up to the first Earth Day, he then discusses lessons learned and Brookhaven Lab scientists» research that may be applied, today and in the future, to determine what Earth will be like 50 years from now.

Chemist Alexander Laskin led the team at PNNL and chemical scientist Mary Gilles led the group at the Berkeley Lab.