Sentences with phrase «of plant molecular biology»

Joe's early implementation of molecular techniques to study auxin - regulated gene transcription and heat shock — regulated protein synthesis laid a foundation for the field of plant molecular biology.

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The dizzying advances in molecular biology blur the former distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the recent «reductions» of mind to brain are fruits of the methodological imperative to explain the animate and mental in terms of the inanimate and the unconscious.
The amazing advances in molecular biology blur the traditional hierarchical distinctions between man, animal, plant and mineral; and the neurophysiological «explanation» of human consciousness in terms of the components and machinations of the brain even more dramatically illustrates how pure «matter» has assumed dominance in any attempt to make sense of our universe and its manifestations.
In the branch of this revolution devoted to rice, the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and its collaborators in the Global Rice Science Partnership (GRiSP)-- the CGIAR's Research Program on Rice — are already tapping into other ongoing revolutions in genetics, molecular biology, and plant physiology.
Because many first - generation graduates come from less affluent families, such socioeconomic differences are common, says Rebecca Lamb, assistant professor of plant cellular and molecular biology at Ohio State University in Columbus and a first - generation college grad.
Mangahas studied plant biology and botany during his undergraduate years at the University of Washington, Seattle, as well as molecular biology.
Realising that he wouldn't be able to advance his career without knowledge of molecular biology, he took up a position at the Plant Breeding Institute (PBI) in Cambridge in 1985.
The intriguing thing to me about working in agricultural biotechnology at this moment is watching how a multitude of subdisciplines such as plant physiology, biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, bioinformatics, and molecular and conventional breeding are blending into one big continuum where the lines begin to blur.
Moving from biochemistry to molecular biology, Palatnik started investigating the role of microRNAs — tiny RNA molecules that are important in gene regulation in most life forms — in the development of the plant Arabidopsis.
The high induction of that protein suggested to scientists that it could be playing an important biological role, said Elton Gonçalves, a former UF / IFAS doctoral student in the plant molecular and cellular biology program.
After doing a PhD in plant molecular biology at the John Innes Institute in Norwich, I had my first taste of international research as a postdoc in the Centre National de Recherche Agronomique in Versailles, France.
Using the tools of molecular biology, another task that lies ahead in this research field is to clarify the principles of pathogen removal in planted soil filters.
A biologist, Schaal was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants and she has worked to advance understanding of plants» molecular systems and population genetics.
«Gastrointestinal diseases are a major cause of mortality in wild and captive pandas but scientists understand very little about their digestive process,» says co-author Ashli Brown Johnson, state chemist and Mississippi State University associate professor of biochemistry, molecular biology, entomology and plant pathology.
«My main goal is for [the students] to have an appreciation and better understanding of plants and of biology in general,» says Moctezuma, who joined the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003 as an instructor.
I had this vague, naive notion that if we could genetically improve plants with the new tools of molecular biology, we would find a way to make biotechnology relevant to agriculture.
«By manipulating photoprotection in plants, it may be possible to improve the efficiency of photosynthesis, and one potential outgrowth of that is higher crop productivity,» said Krishna Niyogi, a faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab's Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrative Bioimaging and a UC Berkeley professor of plant and microbial biology.
Such challenges, she said, must be addressed using the entire toolbox of methods, including genomics, cellular and molecular biology, traditional plant breeding, and genetic modification.
«We've created a genetic combination that no one has ever made before,» said plant scientist Gregg Howe, MSU Foundation professor of biochemistry and molecular biology, who led the study.
«We make a science - based risk assessment [of a product], and if it's safe we use it and if it's unsafe, we don't,» Stefan Jansson, a professor of plant cell and molecular biology at Umeå University's Plant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last mplant cell and molecular biology at Umeå University's Plant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last mPlant Science Centre in Sweden, told ScienceInsider when ENVI approved its draft last month.
Plant Physiology ® is an international journal devoted to physiology, biochemistry, cellular and molecular biology, genetics, biophysics, and environmental biology of plants.
The ASPB Lawrence Bogorad Award for Excellence in Plant Biology Research was approved by the Society's executive committee in 2005 to honor Dr. Bogorad's many contributions to plant biology, including his influential efforts to bring the techniques of molecular biology to bear on problems in plant biology; his groundbreaking research on chloroplast genetics, biogenesis, structure, and function; and his inspired teaching and mentoPlant Biology Research was approved by the Society's executive committee in 2005 to honor Dr. Bogorad's many contributions to plant biology, including his influential efforts to bring the techniques of molecular biology to bear on problems in plant biology; his groundbreaking research on chloroplast genetics, biogenesis, structure, and function; and his inspired teaching and mentoplant biology, including his influential efforts to bring the techniques of molecular biology to bear on problems in plant biology; his groundbreaking research on chloroplast genetics, biogenesis, structure, and function; and his inspired teaching and mentoplant biology; his groundbreaking research on chloroplast genetics, biogenesis, structure, and function; and his inspired teaching and mentoring.
We are fortunate to have an outstanding community of researchers in this area covering the range from molecular biotechnology, fungal and plant genetics, plant biochemical and developmental biology through to animal developmental biology.
Students at the Watson School are exposed to a broad representation of biological sciences, invigorated by CSHL research expertise in genetics, molecular, cellular, and structural biology, neuroscience, cancer, plant biology, and bioinformatics.
The studies analyzed the reaction of plants to certain ecological interactions in a manner that brings together molecular biology and ecology.
The theme of the meeting is «From our roots in vitro to the future of plant biotechnology» and we are inviting experts on a range of plant biotechnology topics, including the fields of in vitro biology, gene editing, synthetic biology, epigenetics and molecular farming to give keynote addresses.
Special emphasis is given to research in the areas of integrative neuro - sciences, medical imaging, translational immunology and cancer research, microbiology and infection research, biochemistry and pharmaceutical research, plant molecular biology, geo - and environmental research, astro - and elementary particle physics, quantum physics and nanotechnology, archeology and prehistory, historical science, religion and cultures, language and cognition, media and educational research.
He was instrumental in securing the USDA Competitive Grants Program that brought funding and scientific rigor to plant biology, recognized early on the value of recombinant DNA technology to agricultural sciences, and provided leadership and vision during the initial international meetings on plant molecular biology.
Impact Factor: 13.479 Issues Per Year: 12 issues per year Aims and Scope: Trends in Plant Science is the No. 1 monthly review journal in plant science (Journal metrics: SJR2013 7.209 IF2013 13.479 IPP2013 14.831), featuring broad coverage of basic plant science, from molecular biology through to ecoPlant Science is the No. 1 monthly review journal in plant science (Journal metrics: SJR2013 7.209 IF2013 13.479 IPP2013 14.831), featuring broad coverage of basic plant science, from molecular biology through to ecoplant science (Journal metrics: SJR2013 7.209 IF2013 13.479 IPP2013 14.831), featuring broad coverage of basic plant science, from molecular biology through to ecoplant science, from molecular biology through to ecology.
Doug received his PhD in molecular, cellular and developmental biology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and did postdoctoral research in plant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge Engplant genetic engineering at the Plant Breeding Institute in Cambridge EngPlant Breeding Institute in Cambridge England.
The focus is on molecular microbiology and virology, and includes topics such as genomics, the gamut of plant and animal host - pathogen interactions, host immune responses, characterization and evolution of virulence determinants, cell cycle and differentiation, symbiosis in plant and animal associations, environmental microbiology, biodiversity and evolution, population dynamics, sex and mutagenesis, antibiotic resistance and production, drug and vaccine targets, as well as aspects of prion diseases and of fungal and protozoan biology.
Over the decades the Society has evolved and expanded to provide a forum for molecular and cellular biology as well as to serve the basic interests of plant science.
Previously a Principal Investigator at the USDA / ARS - UC - Berkeley Plant Gene Expression Center; research focused on the molecular biology of plant reproducPlant Gene Expression Center; research focused on the molecular biology of plant reproducplant reproduction.
At the University of Arizona, where he was a Regents Professor and held the Porterfield Chair in Plant Sciences, he taught molecular and cellular biology for 15 years.
He cited the very wide array of problems, previously thought to be absolutely insurmountable, that researchers can now find solutions for more rapidly using scientific tools coming out of parallel high - science revolutions in genetics, molecular biology, and plant physiology.
The scientists themselves come from a mixture of disciplines, such as computational neuroscience, plant science and molecular biology.
The list of case studies are for use in teaching anatomy, chemistry, environment, evolution, medicine and health, microbiology, molecular biology and genetics, physics and engineering, plant science, psychology, atmospheric science / meteorology, and other sciences.
I have written on various topics of this subject including Cell Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Methods and Instrumentation in Biotechnology, Structural biology, Immunology and Immuno - technology, Recombinant DNA Technology, Enzymology and Enzyme Technology, Plant and Animal Biotechnology, Computational Biotechnology, Bioprocess technology, Downstream processing, Genomics and Proteomics and many more.
I spent a lot of extra time at Universities (PhD in molecular biology) studying everything under the sun from geology to plant physiology and biotechnology (& other related topics).
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