Sentences with phrase «of systems biologist»

One example of shared genes piqued the interest of systems biologist Edward Marcotte of the University of Texas, Austin, and colleagues.

Not exact matches

In short, the irreducible complexity of molecular systems is controversial among molecular biologists when it is presented as an idea with philosophical consequences, and tacitly accepted as reality when it remains in the world of innocent fact.

Gregory was a biologist, anthropologist, cybernetic, systems and information theorist: studied communication of dolphins, schizophrenics, addicts.

In a molecule, the degree of self - creation and self - determination may be quite rudimentary, even negligible; a mechanistic molecular biologist might argue that this can be explained (away) as the defective working of totally deterministic systems.

His comments on «scientific» views of consciousness are also timely because populist evolutionary biologists and «physicalist» philosophers of mind often portray the conscious mind, indeed the «self», as nothing other than the sum total of the chemical and biological parts of the brain and central nervous system.

This week, Science is running an interview with systems biologist and trauma surgeon Michael Yaffe, who treated victims of the Boston Marathon bombings.

Just as today's engineers design integrated circuits based on the known physical properties of materials and use them to create electronic devices with amazing capabilities, tomorrow's synthetic biologists are poised to design and build biological systems that are custom - tailored to make a better world.

Meanwhile, biologists grasp the systems they're studying, but they lack the tools needed to properly analyze the reams of data they produce.

In order to find out if this was really the case, the systems biologist Dr Sebastian Beggel, who has worked extensively on the biology of amphipods for a long time, carried out a standardized laboratory test together with his working group in Weihenstephan.

Researchers from LSTM, along with a team of international biologists who have recently sequenced the genome of the king cobra, say that their work reveals dynamic evolution and adaptation in the snake venom system, which seemingly occurs in response to an evolutionary arms race between venomous snakes and their prey.

«I can remember in my second year thinking [that] in the... 50 years since Watson and Crick elucidated the structure of DNA, molecular biologists had been taking living systems apart and understanding the various pieces.

«In general, we know much less about the sensory system than the motor system in animal flight,» says biologist Bret Tobalske of the University of Montana in Missoula.

Kraus is a biologist who studies the auditory system, which is at the nexus of our cognitive, sensory and limbic systems.

As for Darwin, Wolfe presents the greatest biologist in history as a petty thief who stole credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection from Alfred Russell Wallace, who was (Wolfe alleges) screwed over by the British gentlemen's club conspirators who rigged the system to give Darwin credit for priority.

Integrative biologist Robert Full of the University of California, Berkeley, suspected that some of the insect's balance - preserving reflexes may be too fast to be controlled by its nervous system alone and are also built into its mechanical structure.

Systems biologists, physicists, and engineers have intensively worked at computational tools to analyze, predict, and optimize the effects of Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) to treat chronic neurological diseases.

«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

This limited set of nervous - system building blocks should have restricted their ability to develop advanced intelligence, says Daniel Rokhsar, an evolutionary biologist at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Japan.

It was geologists who first noticed the evidence of huge impact craters on Earth that had formed long after the solar system settled into its present form, prompting biologists to speculate on whether those collisions dramatically altered life's evolution.

If you increase the size of a Sudoku grid to nine by nine, you suddenly have 6.7 sextillion possible scenarios... and you get an idea of the nightmare molecular biologists faced when they tried to code even a slightly complex biological system.

In flies and mice, «their robustness comes in their genetics, and in particular the ability to rapidly develop systems where we can alter genes,» explains Jonathan Gitlin, a developmental biologist and director of research at MBL.

We have been able to prove that the nervous system plays an important regulatory role here,» emphasises Professor Thomas Bosch, evolutionary developmental biologist and spokesperson of the Collaborative Research Centre 1182 «Origin and Function of Metaorganisms,» funded by the German Science Foundation (DFG).

The next hurdle becomes how to get these different simulations to talk to one another, says Amy Marshall - Colón, a plant systems biologist at Illinois who leads a lab group independent of Long's and Zhu's.

So he joined GSK Vaccines in 2010, as a molecular biologist in the company's Antigen - Specific Cancer Immunotherapeutic program, which aims to harness the immune system for the development of well - tolerated cancer therapies.

By chemically removing the gut microbiome in zebrafish in the lab and then repopulating the gut with two to three bacterial species, University of Oregon biologist Karen Guillemin has shown that certain microbes are especially skilled at suppressing the host immune system and preventing inflammation — a discovery she thinks may have implications for human health.

Systems biologist Prof. Thomas Höfer and colleagues (also of the DKFZ) performed mathematical analysis of these experimental data to provide additional insight into blood stem cell dynamics.

Assistive technologies for scientists with disabilities are an extension of the technologies that assist all scientists, like a biologist's microscope or a geographer's global positioning system.

Biologists, physicists, mathematicians, and computer scientists have begun cooperating on a sophisticated «systems biology» aimed at understanding how the countless molecular interactions at the heart of life fit together in the workings of cells, organs, and whole animals.

The first study results from the researches carried out by the team of biologist Ana Caño Delgado, CSIC researcher in the Center for Research in Agricultural Genomics (CRAG), and physicist Marta Ibañes, from the Department of Condensed Matter Physics and the Institute of Complex Systems of the University of Barcelona (UBICS).

And with his boss, Monell director Gary Beauchamp, he isdeveloping the idea of the odor print: the notion, first proposed bythe late biologist Lewis Thomas more than 25 years ago, that body odorbears a signature of immune - system proteins as unique as a face or afingerprint.

Meanwhile, Floyd Reed, a biologist at the University of Hawai'i at Mnoa, has been working on a different kind of drive system called underdominance to prevent the Culex mosquitoes introduced to Hawaii from spreading avian malaria to endangered birds, including the Hawaiian honeycreeper.

So what kind of training, whether systematic or ad hoc, should aspiring systems biologists pursue?

New institutions around the world are gathering interdisciplinary teams of biologists, mathematicians, and computer specialists to help promote systems biology approaches.

Biologist Steven Jansen, at the University of Ulm, Germany, and colleagues analysed existing data on the water transportation systems of 226 plant species from 81 forests globally (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11688).

The research identifies a potent mechanism — rapid evolution of the reproductive system — involved in speciation, says William Rice, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In addition to a marine biologist's typical tools — water samplers to measure salinity and temperature, plankton nets — the team's toolbox will hold cameras, coring systems to collect seafloor sediment, and hydroacoustic equipment to map the topography of the now - exposed seabed.

The study opens a new door to cetacean researchers, who now have a «new sensory system» to explore, says Paul Nachtigall, a sensory biologist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa.

Contemporary representatives of the family therefore provide an ideal model system for evolutionary biologists who seek to understand the mechanisms that underlie the process of species diversification.

By fitting DNA into an engineering template, the messy field of biology emerges as a complex but somewhat predictable system — one that synthetic biologists have begun to maneuver in recent years.

For many molecular biologists, the discovery of the CRISPR - Cas9 system marked a new milestone in research: finally, genomic DNA can be cut with high efficiency and precision, enabling genes to be disabled, modified or re-introduced.

Even a decade ago many biologists still hewed to the idea that the immune system serves not only to eliminate pathogens but to ferret out cells that are the abnormal precursors of cancer.

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.

«I like mentoring,» says Michael Stumpf, a systems biologist at Imperial College London in the UK, who also indicated in the survey he spends over 20 percent of his time mentoring postdocs.

«I think it's a wonderful paper,» says systems biologist Carl Hansen of the University of British Columbia.

«What's really bad is when they destroy a thousand - dollar GPS system,» Cook quipped, but there was an undercurrent of anger on his face, which the biologist could not disguise.

These experiments will help biologists understand how plants respond to microgravity, which will improve efforts aimed at growing food in space — a crucial component of long - duration missions to Mars or elsewhere in the solar system.

«But there were signs that this wasn't the complete story,» says University of Groningen system biologist Matthias Heinemann.

Biologists at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now discovered that the phases of quiescence in the Drosophila fruit fly central nervous system are controlled by the Hippo signaling pathway.

With the help of a supercomputer, Dunn's team showed that the worm is a product of the first split among bilateral animals more than half a billion years ago — a discovery that will help biologists understand the origins of the digestive and nervous systems.

Kauffman, a complexity researcher and biologist of the University of Calgary and the Santa Fe Institute, has argued, for example, that self - organization — the propensity for systems to become more complex without outside guidance — was just as important as natural selection in shaping evolution.