Sentences with phrase «of microbiology professor»

ETH researchers from the research group of microbiology professor Markus Aebi have discovered a protein in the cells of one such ectomycorrhizal fungus which offers an additional advantage to the fungus - plant duo.

Not exact matches

«Thirty billion Lactobacillus sounds good, but after going through the stomach acid, only about 43 of them survive,» Ian Orme, a distinguished professor of microbiology and pathology at Colorado State University, told Business Insider.

«We're on the lookout for that here [in Texas],» said Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine.

Dickson Despommier, microbiologist and ecologist, and emeritus professor of microbiology and public health at Columbia University, is known as the «father» of vertical farming.

-- Eric Martens, Ph.D., an associate professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan Medical School who led the research along with his former postdoctoral fellow Mahesh Desai, Ph.D., now at the Luxembourg Institute of Health.

For nearly three years, Weber worked alongside two scientists from Oregon State University to develop MicroGARD ® 100: James Ayres, PhD, now retired professor of pharmacy; and William Sandine, PhD, retired professor of microbiology.

Sense of Smell «There are only five known tastes,» says Hiroaki Matsunami, a professor studying the genetics of olfaction in the microbiology department at Duke University.

«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.

Among them was M. Nia Madison, a microbiology professor at Miami Dade College, who earlier this year received a 2017 Changing the Face of STEM grant to support her work in mentoring and engaging women who are interested in STEM fields.

He had been a professor of molecular biology and microbiology at James Madison University for 10 years.

Without that atomic description, «it was impossible to determine how the genome was being sustained through the spread of the virus,» said Z. Hong Zhou, a professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics, a member of UCLA's California NanoSystems Institute, and a senior author of the research.

«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.

That knowledge will be a big advance in our understanding of tularemia,» said senior author Dr. Joseph Mougous, associate professor of microbiology at the UW School of Medicine.

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.

«We found that a particular vaginal bacterium, Gardnerella vaginalis, did not cause infection during exposure to the urinary tract, but it damaged the cells on the surface of the bladder and caused E. coli from a previous UTI to start multiplying, leading to another bout of disease,» said the study's senior author, Amanda Lewis, PhD, an assistant professor of molecular microbiology and of obstetrics and gynecology at Washington University.

«We see a complete deletion of the infectious version of the malaria parasite,» said Anthony James, a microbiology and molecular genetics professor at the University of California, Irvine, and the lead author of the report.

But when he took an elective course in microbiology, one fantastic professor outlined the workings of bacteriophages, the viruses that attack bacteria, with flair and passion.

«By switching certain genes on and off, prions could help bacteria survive environmental stresses rendering them less vulnerable to drugs, chemicals and other environmental assaults,» says investigator Ann Hochschild, professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

«H. pylori has been living in the human gut for a minimum of 11,000 years, but probably far longer,» says Martin Blaser, professor of microbiology, who led the research.

«When I first got into microbiology, it was all about the bad guys,» says Dale, a professor of biology.

«This work demonstrates the feasibility of using a single gene editing platform, plus the regenerative power of stem cells to correct genetic mutations and restore dystrophin production for 60 percent of Duchenne patients,» said Pyle, associate professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics and member of the Broad Stem Cell Research Center.

The advantage of Novavax's approach is that a vaccine can be made rapidly and in high volume, compared with the egg - based approach that's used today, says Ted Ross, an associate professor of microbiology and molecular genetics at the University of Pittsburgh's Center for Vaccine Research (CVR).

«This was an example of true crosspollination expertise and knowledge,» said Mathis, a professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

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.

«Because we observed microbial effects mainly in the gut, we believe that a microbe - based therapy would avoid the collateral damage seen with drugs that wipe out classes of immune cells across the body,» said Benoist, a professor of microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

«We set out to map out interactions between bacteria and the immune system in the hope that this could eventually lead to the development of an apothecary of agents tailored to modulate the immune system selectively and precisely,» said senior investigator Dennis Kasper, professor of medicine and microbiology and immunobiology at HMS.

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.

Dr. Karsten Hueffer, lead author and a professor of veterinary microbiology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, said he hopes the findings will help scientists better understand and treat the infectious viral disease.

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.»

Scientists have a promising new approach to combating deadly human viruses thanks to an educated hunch by University of California, Riverside microbiology professor Shou - Wei Ding, and his 20 years of research on plants, fruit flies, nematodes and mice to show the truth in his theory.

«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.

«With more than 1.7 million people dying globally from TB each year and the rise of strains that are resistant to drug treatment, we need a better way to prevent this disease,» said the study's principal investigator Louis Picker, M.D., who is the associate director of the OHSU Vaccine and Gene Therapy Institute and a professor of pathology, molecular microbiology, and immunology in the OHSU School of Medicine.

Dust mites «need places to hide, and they like places with higher humidity,» says Jason Rasgon, an assistant professor of microbiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

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.

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.

«Our research leads to the conclusion that it is probably bacteria (in the gut) that are responsible for the calories you burn while you are asleep,» says John Kirby, PhD, professor of microbiology and urology at the UI Carver College of Medicine.

The advantage of these exchanges for India's economy are obvious, but — says C.S. Prakash, a professor of microbiology at Tuskegee University in Alabama and an Indian expatriate who travels often between the two countries — the advantages work both ways.

«We see that two completely different disease entities share a common pathogenic mechanism,» said George Hajishengallis, a professor of microbiology in Penn's School of Dental Medicine and an author on the study.

The study, led by Emiliana Borrelli, a UCI professor of microbiology & molecular genetics, appears online in the journal Molecular Psychiatry.

He also is a professor of molecular microbiology and of pathology and immunology.

«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.

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.

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.»

A team of scientists led by Ronald Harty, a professor of pathobiology and microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Veterinary Medicine, has identified a mechanism that appears to represent one way that host cells have evolved to outsmart infection by Ebola and other viruses.

«The idea is that when fat cells (adipocytes) interact with environmental agents — in this case, bacterial toxins — they then trigger a chronic inflammatory process,» says Patrick Schlievert, Ph.D., UI professor and head of microbiology and co-senior author of a new study published in the journal PLOS ONE.

«Our study suggests that respiratory bacterial infections during childhood establish a novel type of antibacterial immunity,» explained corresponding author Joseph Mizgerd, ScD, professor of medicine, microbiology and biochemistry at Boston University School of Medicine.

«Mentoring is really important to me,» says Gail Bishop, professor of microbiology and internal medicine at The University of Iowa.

«Dietary therapies for Crohn's disease should be examined more systematically, and this study provides a good first step,» said Dennis Ko, an assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology in the Duke School of Medicine.

«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.

One key issue to be resolved is whether the federal government will retain responsibility for restoring the lakes to their natural condition once ELA's doors are permanently closed, says Carol Kelly, a retired professor of microbiology at the University of Manitoba.