Sentences with phrase «on eukaryotic»

Dr. Worthey received her Ph.D. in Genetics from the University of London in 2003 and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute at the University of Washington, working on both Eukaryotic Genomics and other high throughput «Omics» projects.

As is often the case for yeast, the ability to sequence and analyze whole genomes at very deep coverage has yielded broad insights on eukaryotic genome evolution.

External and internal constraints on eukaryotic chemotaxis.

UC Davis has received funding to host an SMBE Satellite Meeting on Eukaryotic - Omics this spring — meeting dates have been set as Monday April 29 — Thursday May 2nd, 2013, and further details can be found at the meeting website: http://www.smbe.org/eukaryotes

Broad beginning in December 2012 filed a dozen patents based on the eukaryotic use of CRISPR, and paid the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to do a fast - track review.

«The key unanswered question here concerns when on the eukaryotic line the eukaryotic type of cell formed.

Not exact matches

The consensus on the evolution of primitive life is that simple life forms (prokaryotes, organisms whose cells lack a distinct nucleus) inhabited the Earth about 3 - 4 billion years ago, eukaryotic cells (those with a nucleus which contains the genetic material) emerging 2 - 3 billion years ago.

Over eons, pieces of mitochondrial DNA have naturally inserted into eukaryotic genomes; at birth, for example, humans have between 755 and 1,155 germline mitochondrial DNA inserts that have been passed on through generations.

AS A species made up of eukaryotic cells complete with mitochondria, nuclei and other complex structures, it's easy for us Homo sapiens to look down on the far simpler prokaryotes, the cells of which lack such structures.

Our current concept of the origin of the eukaryotic cell is in flux, however, and an evolutionary sequence that appears simple when conceptualized on a phylogenetic tree diagram may be far more complex and interesting in reality.

Nevertheless, the eukaryotic stem on the phylogenetic tree of life spawns many branches before one gets to the split that separates the ancestors of plants from the ancestors of animals, which seems to have happened more than a billion years ago.

So those conditions could have put a brake on the expansion of eukaryotic cells.

But in an Opinion paper published June 16 in Trends in Cell Biology, researchers propose that new genomic evidence derived from a deep - sea vent on the ocean floor suggests that the molecular machinery essential to eukaryotic life was probably borrowed, little by little over time, from those simpler ancestors.

The EBP would focus on the natural world, providing a better understanding of biodiversity by first sequencing in great detail the DNA of a member of each eukaryotic family (about 9000 in all) and eventually generating coarser genomes for the other eukaryotes.

If — as in the eukaryotic ubiquitin - based system — the access to the protease depends on a specific tag that must be carried by the substrate, then the important decision who and when should be eliminated boils down to the timely and selective attachment of tags.

In last week's filing, attorneys for the Broad Institute asked patent officials to remove two of its issued patents that focus on saCas9 from the original case, as well as two other patents (and a few affiliated claims in other patents) that describe techniques for enabling the CRISPR - Cas9 construct to target the nucleus of a eukaryotic cell.

In this weeks» edition of Nature, researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden, along with collaborators from the USA, Japan, Denmark and New Zealand report the discovery of a new group of Archaea, the Asgard archaea, which reveal important details on how eukaryotic cells evolved their complexity.

The predicted hosts for the Klosneuviruses are protists (single - celled eukaryotic (nucleus - containing) microorganisms) and while their direct impacts on protists are not yet worked out, these giant viruses are thought to have a large impact on these protists that help regulate the planet's biogeochemical cycles.

These have provided insight into the roles that marine bacteria, archaea, viruses and eukaryotic microbes have as global primary producers that provide nutrition at the base of the food chain; remineralization (the transformation of organic molecules into inorganic forms); and the deposition of carbon on the sea floor.

The rapid onset of the freezing phenotype led to the hypothesis that Mcf1 may be acting on a pre-existing eukaryotic molecular switch governing actin cytoskeletal dynamics such as the rho GTPases.

It is now recognized as one of the most important evolutionary innovations of life on our planet, and contributed to the origin of eukaryotic cells, which which humans are made of.

On oxygenated seafloors, the first multi-cellular lifeform (possibly an eukaryotic alga) appears to have evolved by Year 2.4 billion as the 12 - centimeter or 4.7 - inch protoctist, Grypania (more from BBC News and New Scientist).

Although atmospheric oxygen soon recovered again as photosynthesis and weathering reached a new balance, at about 10 per cent of present - day levels, the oxidative weathering of sulphides on land filled the oceans with sulphate which created abundant food for a group of bacteria that filled the oceans with sewer gas (hydrogen sulphide) toxic to oxygen - loving lifeforms (delaying the development of eukaryotic plants and animals) and turned them «into stinking, stagnant waters almost entirely devoid of oxygen.»

The Eukaryotic Single - Cell Analysis facility will be placed in Stockholm and will offer single - cell RNA - seq on the Fluidigm C1 platform using the STRT protocol, as well as in a microtiter - plate format using SMART - seq2.

2) Tectonic plates 3) That mitochondria are prokaryotes living in a eukaryotic cell 4) that the earth goes round the sun I think that's a few to be going on with:) per

Our method, based ideally on 20x and 50x of NaS and Illumina reads respectively, provides an efficient and cost - effective way of sequencing microbial or small eukaryotic genomes in a very short time even in small facilities.

The CellDevo Track focuses on the study of molecular mechanisms in eukaryotic cells and their role in tissue formation, with the level of analysis ranging from single molecules to single cells, from cells to tissues, and from tissues to whole organisms.

The team's work highlights this by presenting a comprehensive view of genome evolution on many different levels (e.g., differences in ploidy, aneuploidy, genetic variants, hybridization, and introgressions) that is difficult to obtain at the same scale and accuracy for other eukaryotic organisms.

Fox and colleagues applied for a PSI grant in 2000, and on the strength of their science and Wisconsin's structural biology depth, they received funding in 2001 to create the Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics.

«This is the only system I know about that is amenable for structural work on how the cellular signal comes down to the chromatin and DNA and that can provide an answer about how a signal activates a eukaryotic gene,» Panne says.

Liron Bar - Peled, Grand Prize winner and Cell & Developmental Biology category winner, told about his research on the enzyme mTORC1 which regulates eukaryotic cell growth and is deregulated in some common cancers and diabetes.

The transcription factors usually function as homodimers or heterodimers to regulate the gene expression in eukaryotic cells and their activities are dependent on distinct protein - protein interaction.

Kim Orth of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has worked to elucidate the activity of bacterial virulence factors on the molecular level, providing insights into how bacteria cause disease and how eukaryotic host cells signalin response to infection.

His findings suggest that eukaryotic organisms were present on Earth as early as 2.31 billion years ago, around the same time that oxygen was first present in the Earth's atmosphere.

Our aim is to shed light on the evolutionary path by which archaeal proteins gave rise to the eukaryotic cytoskeleton.

These newly identified organisms might have a big impact on our understanding of the deeper branches of the tree of life giving us new hints about the emergence of the eukaryotic cell.

My research is framed within the Wellcome Trust consortium on the archaeal origins of eukaryotic cell organization (http://evocyt.com/), which includes a diverse group of researchers studying the evolution of eukaryotic machinery from different points of view — e.g. how do specific cellular systems work in different lineages, and how did that affect the origin of the eukaryotic cell plan?

Data from such investigations provide a unique perspective on the events in this time period, and together present a cohesive framework for examining eukaryotic and animal evolution through the Proterozoic and into the Phanerozoic Eon.

His basic research is focused on understanding how eukaryotic mRNAs recruit ribosomes, how ribosomes subsequently locate initiation codons, and how ribosomes regulate the translation of specific subsets of mRNAs.

The microbiome is a community of healthy bacteria, viruses, archaea, and eukaryotic microbes that live on our skin and inside our body.

Depression indicates a flare of inflammation so you may need to improve your gut flora, or you might have some eukaryotic (protozoal, fungal) infection that is worsened on a ketogenic diet.

Includes questions on centrifugation, cell organelles, eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells, adaptations to functions, microscopes and viruses.

From seed and spore dispersal, to rapid cell growth of eukaryotic organisms, and the pulsing cilia needed to sustain them, to the slow growth of lichens and moss - life has a remarkable way of establishing itself on the planet; yet, most of these processes go unseen to the human eye.