Sentences with phrase «microbiology and immunology»

After five years of deep genomic analysis, Garry Nolan, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford, and Atul Butte, MD, PhD, director of the Institute for Computational Health Sciences at the University of California - San Francisco, have pinpointed the mutations responsible for the anomalous specimen.

Anti-flu peptides could become handy when vaccines are unavailable, in the case of a new pandemic strain, or when circulating strains become resistant to current drugs, says senior author Joshy Jacob, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Emory Vaccine Center and Emory University School of Medicine.

Dr. Kizhatil earned a PhD in microbiology and immunology at the University of Tennessee, Memphis, where he uncovered a new role for the cellular cytoskeleton in murine retrovirus entry.

Women may be more likely than men to end up in the hospital with severe flu symptoms, notes Sabra Klein, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins University who researches sex differences in infectious disease.

The mutation «is causing major illness in the region, and it's different from what's causing disease on Vancouver Island,» says Christina Hull, PhD, an assistant professor of medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, in Madison.

She studied biology at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and obtained a Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology from the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, United States.

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So if a co-worker shows up complaining about aches and pains, or you notice someone wheezing next to you on the bus or in line at Target, you should stay at least 10 feet away, if possible — «15 feet if the person's really sick,» says Philip Tierno, PhD, director of clinical microbiology and immunology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

We do both dry - lab (bioinformatics lab) and wet - lab (microbiology and immunology lab) biomedical research.

The postdoc, Emily Wroblewski, had joined Parham's microbiology and immunology group at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, after doing behavioral studies of wild chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania.

We have combined microbiology and immunology with functional genetics and have developed critical mouse models of chronic bacterial infection that reproduce the advanced - stage human pulmonary pathology.

Dr. Yongqun «Oliver» He (何勇群)'s laboratory research has two major thrusts: (1) Dry - lab bioinformatics research; and (2) Wet - lab Brucella microbiology and immunology research.

Bernier, who holds a PhD in microbiology and immunology from the University of Montreal, is responsible for sourcing, evaluating, and managing investments in new technologies.

«Aedes mosquitoes have become increasingly important as vectors of disease from a public health perspective,» said George Dimopoulos, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at John Hopkins University who was not involved in the study.

The research, which was published online October 25, 2016 in Cell Reports, was conducted by the laboratories of co-senior authors Nevan J. Krogan, PhD, a professor of cellular and molecular pharmacology at UCSF, director of the Quantitative Biosciences Institute (QBI) in UCSF's School of Pharmacy, and a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes, and Alexander Marson, MD, PhD, an assistant professor of microbiology and immunology in UCSF's School of Medicine.

To further my scientific training, I completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, one in analytical chemistry and the other in medical microbiology and immunology.

Even if you don't feel sick, trouble could be brewing, especially during wintertime when germs run rampant, says Philip Tierno, PhD, director of clinical microbiology and immunology at NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.

Knowing how to induce antiviral T cells displaying CXCR5 will be important for designing better therapeutic vaccines, as well as efforts to suppress HIV long - term, says Rama Rao Amara, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at Yerkes National Primate Research Center and Emory Vaccine Center.

Tehrani had just obtained his PhD in microbiology and immunology, and teamed up with an IT specialist, Anthony Fejes, to flesh out a business plan when each investor pitched in $ 40,000 to capitalize Zymeworks.

According to Page S. Morahan, former chair of the department of microbiology and immunology and current co-director of ELAM (an executive leadership program for women in academic medicine) at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a mentor can make a difference in two ways.

«We followed a larger cohort of individuals with Crohn's disease in our second study and again found that SHIP1 expression is absent or drastically reduced in a subset of Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients,» said Kerr, an Empire Scholar, the Murphy Family Professor of Childrens» Oncology Research, and professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, pediatrics and microbiology and immunology at Upstate.

«We have needed alternative drugs that work on new targets for a very long time because patients who develop resistance to nucleoside analogs have very few good options for treating their infection,» said Deepak Shukla, the Marion Schenk Professor of Ophthalmology and professor of microbiology and immunology in the UIC College of Medicine, and corresponding author on the paper.

«While biotechnology is being pursued primarily for beneficial and legitimate purposes, there are potential uses that are detrimental to humans, other species, and ecosystems,» said Michael Imperiale, professor and associate chair of microbiology and immunology at the University of Michigan Medical School and chair of the committee that wrote the interim report.

She focused on this exclusively, interviewing with various labs at UBC and finally deciding to complete her doctoral studies with Brett Finlay in the department of microbiology and immunology.

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Stanley Falkow, professor emeritus of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, decided to retire «to pursue opportunities in life I'd... never had time» for before, he says.

The work, published this week in mBio ®, an online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that immunizing pregnant women against HSV and similar infections could prevent serious brain disease related to these conditions in fetuses and newborns, said senior study author David A. Leib, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the medical school.

The epidemic, which now has a firm hold on cities in Liberia and Sierra Leone, is more challenging to stamp out than prior outbreaks that raged in isolated areas and burned themselves out, says Daniel Lucey, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Georgetown University Medical Center, who recently returned from caring for Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.

Before he got his own R01, he served on an ad hoc review panel assembled by the American Heart Association to review grants related to microbiology and immunology.

«Most HIV drugs target the virus,» said Huang, assistant professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine, which ranked No. 1 in National Institutes of Health funds received per principal investigator in 2016.

«It was very humbling,» says Poukchanski, who plans to study infectious parasites for her Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology.

C. difficile is responsible for more than 250,000 hospitalizations and 15,000 deaths per year in the United States, costing the country more than $ 4 billion in health - care expenses, said the study's senior author, Matthew Bogyo, PhD, professor of pathology and of microbiology and immunology.

About one in 20 people, and possibly many more, harbor C. difficile in their gut, said study co-author Justin Sonnenburg, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology, who has conducted pioneering research on the trillions of microbes constituting our intestinal ecosystems.

«The interactions with P. aeruginosa can completely change S. aureus's susceptibility to standard antibiotics,» said study senior author Brian P. Conlon, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at UNC.

«Phosphate is a limited resource and we don't use it very efficiently,» said Dangl, who is also an adjunct professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine.

However, HAART can not kill the HIV - infected cells,» said the study's lead author, Ekaterina Dadachova, Ph.D., professor of radiology, microbiology and immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y. «Any strategy for curing HIV infection must include a method to eliminate viral - infected cells.»

Oliver McDonald, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University and co-first author of the study, says: «In pancreatic cancer, the fact that it may take years for a primary tumor to develop, while metastases can progress very quickly, is somewhat of an enigma.

«We've known for a long time that RSV has an increased propensity, compared to other respiratory viruses, for causing obstruction and inflammation in the narrowest airways of the infant lung, leading to severe bronchiolitis,» said Raymond Pickles, PhD, associate professor of microbiology and immunology and senior author of the JCI paper.

«An interactive lab is important — one that encourages communication not only with the PI but among its members,» says Alison Criss, a postdoctoral fellow in microbiology and immunology at Northwestern University.

The results «suggest that microbes in the breast, even in low amounts, may be playing a role in breast cancer — increasing the risk in some cases and decreasing the risk in other cases,» says Gregor Reid, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Western University in Ontario and the study's senior author.

At least one institution — Georgetown University — offers a master's degree program that combines policy and advocacy with scientific training in microbiology and immunology.

«The 2014 - 2015 Ebola epidemic caused a regional health emergency in West Africa, shattering the healthcare infrastructure there and causing more than 11,000 deaths,» says Kartik Chandran, associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York.

«The increasingly frequent outbreaks of filoviral HF in Africa evidenced by the current rapidly spreading outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone illustrate the clear and present danger filoviruses represent to human health,» stated UTMB's Thomas Geisbert, professor of microbiology and immunology.

With his Ph.D. in microbiology and immunology, Dr. Campbell undertook postdoctoral research and training at Northwestern University in the Feinberg School of Medicine, before joining the faculty of Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago as an assistant professor in 2008.

«These spores are like armored seeds, and they can pass through the gut's acidic environment intact,» says Philip Hanna, Ph.D., senior author of the new paper and a professor of microbiology and immunology at U-M.

«Radioimmunotherapy not only worked against these cancers but, in addition, the radioactivity was confined entirely to the tumor masses, leaving healthy tissues undamaged,» said senior study co-author Ekaterina Dadachova, an associate professor of nuclear medicine and of microbiology and immunology at Einstein.

The larvae are also permeable to small molecules, which will allow scientists to batch - test different drug compounds against the infection relatively quickly and easily, said co-author David Tobin, Ph.D., assistant professor in molecular genetics and microbiology and immunology at Duke.