Sentences with phrase «microbiology and immunology at»

«If we understand how this UV - resistant gene functions and the processes by which cells repair themselves after ultraviolet damage, then we could find targets for drugs to revert a misguided mechanism back to normal conditions,» said Chengyu Liang, the study's senior author and an associate professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Dr. Justin Sonnenburg is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford and Dr. Erica Sonnenburg is a senior research scientist in the Sonnenburg lab where they research many aspects the interaction between diet with the 100 trillion or so bacteria in the gut (specifically the colon) and how this impacts the health of the host (which in this case is a laboratory research mouse).
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.
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.
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.
«Your risk largely depends on the number of cows making up your ground beef,» says Michael Schmidt, PhD, professor at the department of microbiology and immunology at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC).
David Topham, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Rochester, agrees there is a strong need for more influenza surveillance.
But the mice don't display many of the symptoms of DMD that humans have, notes Dongsheng Duan, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the University of Missouri's School of Medicine.
He is also professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at UCSF and co-director UCSF - GIVI Center for AIDS Research
Dr Misty Jenkins from Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre completed her Bachelor of Science majoring in microbiology and immunology at the University of Melbourne.
«Our strategy will be to exploit the innate immune system to help flush the virus out of hiding and ultimately to eliminate its ability to bounce back when drug treatment ends,» said Greene, a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at UCSF, and the Nick and Sue Hellmann Distinguished Professor of Translational Medicine at Gladstone.
Compans is professor of microbiology and immunology at Emory University School of Medicine and scientific director of Emory's Influenza Pathogenesis and Immunology Research Center.
Lowen and Steel are assistant professors of microbiology and immunology at Emory and IPIRC investigators.
Todd Schell, professor of microbiology and immunology at Penn State College of Medicine, said that because beta blockers are already widely available, the findings — published in the journal OncoImmunology — could indicate a simple way for physicians to better treat their patients.
«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 cytotoxic chemotherapy can first kill some cancer cells and enhance the sensitivity of the tumour toward ICB therapy, which then stimulates the effectiveness of the ICB therapy,» said co-author Gianpietro Dotti, PhD, professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Rama Rao Amara, a vaccine researcher at Emory Vaccine Center and Yerkes National Primate Research Center, and Harriet Robinson, former head of microbiology and immunology at Yerkes and now chief scientific officer at the firm GeoVax, both described extra ingredients for the DNA / MVA vaccine that Robinson designed while at Yerkes in collaboration with NIH researchers.
Dr. Greene is also a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), with which Gladstone is affiliated.
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.
Natalie studied medical microbiology and immunology at the University of Newcastle, during which she discovered a love of looking at «gross pictures of diseases».
«We want to know what the basic function of GATA - 3 in regulating cell biology is, although it has been shown that GATA - 3 is important for the function of CD4 + T cell type to clear extracellular parasites,» said Yisong Wan, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology at the UNC School of Medicine and member of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center.
The period when tadpoles are turning into frogs — called metamorphosis — is a «very vulnerable time,» said Louise Rollins - Smith, an associate professor of pathology, microbiology and immunology at Vanderbilt University who did not participate in the study.
The protein constructs used in this investigation were originally developed by a team of researchers headed by Dr. John Moore, professor of microbiology and immunology at Weill Cornell.
«This has been an absolutely fascinating voyage of discovery,» said Dr. Greene, who is also a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at the University of California, San Francisco, with which Gladstone is affiliated.
«Understanding how the herpes virus switches from being dormant to causing cancer is important because of the health problems the herpes virus causes worldwide,» said Gao, a professor of molecular microbiology and immunology at the Keck School of Medicine.
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.
«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.
«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.
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.
«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.
«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.
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.
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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.
«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.

Not exact matches

«These infections can be just one plane ride away, which is why we have to continue to vaccinate,» explains Michael Pichichero, MD, professor of microbiology / immunology, pediatrics, and medicine at the University of Rochester, in New York State.
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.
Kristen is a Senior Editor at Science, based in Washington, D.C., whose areas of responsibility include immunology, microbiology and infectious disease.
The company employs five postdocs at the company's immunology and microbiology research labs located offsite at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto.
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.
«This research took place at the intersection of microbiology, immunology and genetics, which is illustrative of the complex and synergistic ways in which multiple organs and organ systems operate in the body.»
For instance, Curtis Suttle, professor of earth and ocean sciences, microbiology and immunology, and botany, plus associate dean of science at The University of British Columbia, says, «Find an M.S. program that is really geared toward a profession.»
At least one institution — Georgetown University — offers a master's degree program that combines policy and advocacy with scientific training in microbiology and immunology.
«Since it's impossible to predict which of these agents will cause the next epidemic, it would be ideal to develop a single therapy that could treat or prevent infection caused by any known ebolavirus,» says study co-leader Zachary A. Bornholdt, Ph.D., director of antibody discovery at Mapp Biopharmaceutical, Inc. «Our discovery and characterization of broadly neutralizing human antibodies is an important step toward that goal,» adds study co-leader, Kartik Chandran, Ph.D., professor of microbiology & immunology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Growing resistance to malaria drugs in Southeast Asia is caused by a single mutated gene inside the disease - causing Plasmodium falciparum parasite, according to a study led by David Fidock, PhD, professor of microbiology & immunology and of medical sciences (in medicine) at Columbia University Medical Center.
«We learned in this study that grabbing hold of these glycans can be a very important early step in an effective immune response to HIV, and with this knowledge, we believe we can design better candidate vaccines,» said principal investigator Dennis R. Burton, professor of immunology and microbiology at TSRI.
«We have identified a barrier,» said Brad Jones, PhD, primary author of the study and assistant professor of microbiology, immunology, and tropical medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
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