Sentences with phrase «new chemistry professor»

EH&S representatives are becoming involved in hiring decisions and participated in lab renovation planning for a new chemistry professor this year.

Alienated from science, Tops planned to major in business — but then he met Timothy Champion, a new chemistry professor at the university.

Not exact matches

«The economy is dependent on new materials — from active molecules for drug development to agricultural products — all these things lead to chemistry,» says Sergey Krylov, a York University chemistry professor.

For the first couple months of the campaign, state Sen. Toby Ann Stavisky, Oakland Gardens attorney John Messer and New York Lottery winner and former chemistry professor Isaac Sasson of Flushing largely avoided appearing at events together, but they verbally sparred Aug. 24 at a MinKwon Center - sponsored event, then again at the Aug. 25 Queensboro Hill Civic Association meeting.

«I think it's a great field to enter at this time because bioengineering continues to attract talented, enthusiastic professors and have new discoveries in biology and chemistry.»

While studying at New York University, she heard that chemistry professor Kent Kirshenbaum was planning a seminar series on science and food.

Led by Illinois chemistry professor M. Christina White, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign in collaboration with researchers at Pfizer Global Research and Development detailed the new reactivity of the catalysts in the journal Nature.

In a groundbreaking study that provides scientists with a critical new understanding of stem cell development and its role in disease, UCLA researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research led by Dr. Kathrin Plath, professor of biological chemistry, have established a first - of - its - kind methodology that defines the unique stages by which specialized cells are reprogrammed into stem cells that resemble those found in the embryo.

In 2011, after spending 8 years as an industry researcher, Arefolov took the seemingly backward step of becoming a postdoc in the lab of Harvard University chemistry professor Matthew Shair to work on developing a promising — and potentially lucrative — new approach to treating acute myeloid leukemia.

I am off to pursue a new professional opportunity in South Carolina as an assistant professor of chemistry at Claflin University, the oldest HBCU (Historically Black College and University) in the state.

A new study by Robert Stahelin, an adjunct associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at the University of Notre Dame and an associate professor at the Indiana University School of Medicine - South Bend, as well as a member of Notre Dame's Eck Institute for Global Health, investigates how the most abundant protein that composes the Ebola virus, VP 40, mediates replication of a new viral particle.

The new system, described in the March 21st issue of journal ChemBioChem, could have a major impact on peptide drug development, says Bradley Pentelute, an assistant professor of chemistry and leader of the research team.

«Having the structure of the full - length Zika NS1 provides new information that can help guide the design of a potential vaccine or antiviral drugs,» said senior author Janet Smith, director of the Center for Structural Biology at the U-M Life Sciences Institute, where her lab is located, and professor of biological chemistry at the U-M Medical School.

«What's new here is we figured out how to deliver a drug into the inner ear so it actually stays put and does what it's supposed to do, and that's novel,» said Charles E. McKenna, a corresponding author for the study and chemistry professor at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

«I'm impressed,» says Gabriel Miller, a New York University chemistry professor and a consultant to KeySpan Corporation, a gas and electric utility that serves New York.

«We hope that this new catalyst could be a step toward a greener way to produce ethylene,» said Shouheng Sun, a professor of chemistry and engineering at Brown, whose research team developed the catalyst.

Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study, says the new concept «opens our eyes to a class of liquids that has been understudied.»

«This new strategy to stabilize organometal - halide perovskites is an important step in the right direction,» said corresponding author Jin Zhang, professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UC Santa Cruz.

«The batteries last for about 5,000 recharge cycles, giving them an estimated 15 - year lifespan,» said Sri Narayan, professor of chemistry at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and corresponding author of a paper describing the new batteries that was published online by the Journal of the Electrochemical Society on June 20.

Thomas Borch, professor of soil and crop sciences with joint appointments in chemistry and civil and environmental engineering, and Amrita Bhattacharyya, a former postdoctoral researcher in Borch's lab, offer evidence for a new origin story for the uranium trapped underground in roll fronts.

«Our ultimate goal is to engineer microbes to make new versions of these antibiotics for our use, which will drastically reduce the amount of time and money necessary for new drug testing and development,» says Gavin Williams, associate professor of bio-organic chemistry at NC State and corresponding author of a paper describing the research.

His forebears include Benjamin Silliman, the first chemistry professor at Yale College in New Haven, Connecticut, whose teachings in the early 1800s helped popularize science education in the United States.

A possible binding site is only functional in less than one percent of circumstances, says the study's other co-corresponding author Rohs, a professor of biological sciences, chemistry, physics, and computer science who is also a faculty member in the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience.

But new research by Leila Deravi, assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Northeastern, brings us a step closer.

«We synthesized a new compound, demonstrated its effectiveness with biological data, and learned more about its interactions with proteins through X-ray crystallography and computational analysis,» says UConn associate professor of chemistry José Gascón, a specialist in quantum and molecular mechanics.

Nicholson is professor of biological chemistry at Imperial College, London, and the unofficial hub of a growing network of researchers working in a new discipline called «metabonomics».

Yale chemistry professor Patrick Holland and his team designed a new chemical compound with key properties that help to explain nitrogenase.

«The bugs are somehow driving gene expression in the host through alteration of the epigenome,» explains John Denu, a UW - Madison professor of biomolecular chemistry and a senior researcher at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and a co-author of the new study.

«The real issue here is finding a nonconsumable anode that can sustain this process,» said Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a co-author of the new report.

«New plutonium discovery lights way for chemistry professor's work to clean up nuclear waste.»

«In essence,» said co-author Darren W. Johnson, a professor of chemistry, «we can prepare one type of nanoscale cluster compound, and then step - by - step substitute out the individual metal atoms to make new clusters that can not be made by direct methods.

«We have developed a new type of protective coating that enables a key process in the solar - driven production of fuels to be performed with record efficiency, stability, and effectiveness, and in a system that is intrinsically safe and does not produce explosive mixtures of hydrogen and oxygen,» says Nate Lewis, the George L. Argyros Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes Professor and professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes professor of chemistry at Caltech and a coauthor of a new study, published the week of March 9 in the online issue of the journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, that describes the film.

«For 20 years we have been using rational bioengineering to modify the chemical structures of clinically important natural products — using genetics to make a new molecule in a process that parallels medicinal chemistry — and that's what we were doing when we stumbled upon this,» said Professor Barrie Wilkinson from the John Innes Centre.

«Surprisingly, we found that we could create all sorts of biogenic - like materials that have the right shape, structure and chemistry to match natural materials we assume are produced biologically,» said Associate Professor Alexis Templeton of CU Boulder's Department of Geological Sciences and senior author of the new study.

In August 1996 Karen Wetterhahn, a chemistry professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, spilled a few drops of a laboratory compound called dimethyl mercury onto one of her hands.

«We continue to be fascinated by the functions of bacterial CRISPR systems and how mechanistic understanding leads to opportunities for new technologies,» said Doudna, a professor of molecular and cell biology and of chemistry and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

Postdoc Jinsen Chen, left, and chemistry professor Shiyue Fang in the lab where Fang's group discovered a new way to synthesize DNA.

Timothy M. Swager, a chemistry professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, told The New York Times.

«It isn't enough to create new knowledge,» says Richard Zare, a professor of chemistry at Stanford University.

«Our discovery is exciting in that it provides both new fundamental understanding and new materials, and useful applications are always built on a foundation of fundamental understanding,» said May Nyman, a professor of chemistry at Oregon State.

Bengt Nordéns contribution to form a strong research school in Gothenburg has been successful: as many as 12 out of his about 50 former PhD students and postdocs have become professors, abroad or at other Swedish universities, and three have returned to contribute a forceful environment with their own profiles within the Department: Prof Bo Albinsson (femtosecond spectroscopy and fundamentals of electron transfer), Prof Per Lincoln (new transition - metal - based DNA ligands and statistical mechanics for gene targeting), Prof Björn Åkerman (fundamentals and applications of DNA physical chemistry).

Professor Knippertz coordinates the new interdisciplinary project DACCIWA (Dynamics - aerosol - chemistry - cloud interactions in West Africa) that started on December 01, 2013 and will have a duration of four and a half years.

By building a deep understanding of the chemistry of single - layer graphene and a few layer graphene, I am confident that many new applications of chemically functionalized graphenes could be possible, in electronics, photonics, optoelectronics, sensors, composites, and other areas,» notes Rodney Ruoff, corresponding author of this paper, CMCM director, and UNIST Distinguished Professor at the Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST).

«The bugs are somehow driving gene expression in the host through alteration of the epigenome,» explains John Denu, a UW — Madison professor of biomolecular chemistry and a senior researcher at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and a co-author of the new study.

The new CU Boulder e-skin has sensors embedded to measure pressure, temperature, humidity and air flow, said Assistant Professor Jianliang Xiao, who is leading the research effort with CU Boulder chemistry and biochemistry Associate Professor Wei Zhang.

«Although I can now say it is easy, at the beginning when I joined this project, I struggled a lot to synthesize and isolate the sugar compounds, because I was not exactly an expert in sugar chemistry, and it was a new research field for me,» says Jiao Jiao, a postdoctoral researcher in Professor Kenichiro Itami's lab at ITbM, Nagoya University.

The team, led by Ashleigh Theberge, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, will create new analytical chemistry and engineering tools that pull out key molecules from a mix of molecular noise in order to selectively «listen» to molecular signals produced by specific fungi, bacteria, or human cells.

said Christy Landes, associate professor of chemistry at Rice and the lead researcher on a new study about the drawbridge method that appears this week in the open - access journal Science Advances.

The new study — now published in the journal Cell Chemical Biology — was led by chemistry professor Amy Howell, from the University of Connecticut in Mansfield.

«This research very nicely demonstrates how collaboration among scientists with diverse areas of expertise, ranging from genomics to small molecule chemistry, can lead to new insights into plant defensive metabolism,» said BTI Professor Georg Jander, a co-author of the paper.