Sentences with phrase «on systems biology»

Founded on the belief that food can transform lives, one plate at a time, Habit is the first company to provide personalized nutrition recommendations based on a systems biology approach.
The symposium focuses on systems biology approaches (both experimental and computational) to study different embryonic pattern formation mechanisms and their evolution.
Murat completed his PhD at NCSU focusing on systems biology of growth factor - mediated signal transduction pathways.
Says Trengrove, the impact of metabolomics on systems biology is still in its infancy, but he sees positive advances underway, and the key is teamwork.
The St. Laurent Institute, a non-profit medical research institute focused on the systems biology of disease, today announced in a study published in the July edition of Genome Biology, that genetic matter, previously ignored by the scientific community, may play an important role in cancer.
ISB was the first major institution to focus exclusively on systems biology.
Most of Europe's national governments are making sizable bets — millions of euros — on systems biology projects.
Ayyadurai bases his claims on systems biology, a computational model that looks at biology as a whole, rather than individual components.

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Invoking history, physics, biology, climatology and his background in complex systems to debunk neoclassical economics, Orrell makes a plea for an unorthodox economics, one drawing on ethics and environmentalism as well as emerging areas of mathematics like non-linear dynamics and network theory.
«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.
Waddington's paper in Towards a Theoretical Biology follows on from one by Brian Goodwin («A Statistical Mechanics of Temporal Organization in Cells») in which Goodwin looks at the question of how ordered systems like cells, and still more macro-organisms, supervene on the movements of their constituent molecules, and how one is to close the gap between molecular biology and cell physiology.
These are the ideas which were first brought forward in biology by thinkers such as Needham and Woodger (with myself acquiescing on the side - lines) under the name «Organizing Relations,» and by Bertalanffy, who conducted a vigorous propaganda campaign on their behalf, under the name of «Systems Theory, and finally by Norbert Wiener, with equal fervour, as «Cybernetics.»
The fields within biology are further divided based on the scale at which organisms are studied and the methods used to study them: biochemistry examines the fundamental chemistry of life; molecular biology studies the complex interactions of systems of biological molecules; cellular biology examines the basic building block of all life, the cell; physiology examines the physical and chemical functions of the tissues and organ systems of an organism; and ecology examines how various organisms interrelate.
These days, as assistant professor in genomics and systems biology at Harvard University, she usually is listed last on papers that come out of her lab.
While most of biology and medicine focus on the key roles genes and chemicals play in the formation and control of living systems, the spatial arrangement of the components that make up those systems and the physical forces they experience are being increasingly recognized as equally important.
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.
«Understanding the fundamental biology of how our immune system works will lead to the development of more effective drugs and vaccines,» said Kanneganti, corresponding author on the paper.
The contributors offer a synthesis of nearly 50 years of research on a classic model system for population biology, the Soay sheep of Hirta.
Systems biology, biochemistry, synthetic chemistry, microbiology, and enzymology, along with evolutionary, bioinformatics, and biocomputational tools may also all be the cornerstone of your work, depending on the specific field you're working in.
Thieme works at the interface of differential equations, integral equations, and dynamical systems (on the one hand), and ecology, population biology, and epidemiology (on the other).
At the same time, fields that demand multidisciplinary cooperation such as translational medicine, climate science, and systems biology are on the rise.
The Systems Biology Group at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington, employs 90 - plus staff scientists working on proteomics, microbial - cell dynamics, cell and molecular imaging and spectroscopy, computational biology, and bioinformatics.
«The existing methods for biology rely on vision - based motion capture systems that utilize high speed imaging sensors to record the trajectory of joints and limbs during bat flight.
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.
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These results have potentially an impact on the understanding of various complex systems in medicine, biology, physics and engineering in the future.
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BioSysBio Conference in synthetic biology, systems biology, and bioinformatics at Cambridge University, on 23 - 25 March 2009
CRISPR (pronounced crisper) burst on the scientific scene in 2012, when researchers transformed what had originally been identified as a rudimentary immune system in bacteria into one of the most powerful tools in molecular biology.
(Although climate models have critics, they reflect our best ability to describe how the climate system works, based on physics, chemistry and biology.
«In a previous study focused on identification of the first cells in the nervous system to fail during aging of this reflex we found that sensory neuron aging drives aging of the circuit, said Lynne Fieber, associate professor of marine biology and ecology at the UM Rosenstiel School.
His research group focuses on big data network biology, exploring biological systems by developing and deploying algorithms aimed to predict cell behavior, in particular looking at cellular signal processing and decision making.
There are ongoing studies which focus on the discovery of molecular biomarkers of the VSV - ZEBOV vaccine in healthy individuals using omics - based technologies in combination with a systems biology approach,» says Ali Harandi.
«As far as we know, this is the first time anyone has used an insect system as a model for NIHL (noise - induced hearing loss),» says Daniel Eberl, UI biology professor and corresponding author on the study.
Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.
Working on Arabidopsis, a model plant used widely in plant biology labs, Cutler and his colleagues focused their efforts on tinkering with one of the plant endogenous systems involved in drought responses.
«Mantis shrimp, or stomatopods, are well known for aggressive temperaments and complex visual systems, but until now we've known very little about whether and how they use color to communicate with other mantis shrimp,» said Amanda Franklin, a Ph.D. student in the biology department of Tufts University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the first and corresponding author on the paper.
There, they created a control system that runs on chemical power, as is done in biology, without resorting to any computer or electromechanical devices, which are the hallmarks of artificial, hard robotic technology.
Editors note: For those interested in seeing what exciting developments are going on in the systems biology field, check out the 5th International Conference for Systems Biology (ICSB), which is being held 9 to 13 October 2004 in Heidsystems biology field, check out the 5th International Conference for Systems Biology (ICSB), which is being held 9 to 13 October 2004 in HeidSystems Biology (ICSB), which is being held 9 to 13 October 2004 in Heidelberg.
The purpose is to begin installing a system of planetary housekeeping that can preserve the Earth's atmosphere, soils and biology in a state fit to sustain the 10 billion people who will be living on it within a century.
Well, my work at the [Bill & Melinda Gates] Foundation that will become my full - time focus is based on optimism that, whether it's software or biology, the advances can be shaped in a way to help the poorest two billion people on the planet — whether that's a breakthrough for malaria, a breakthrough for a high - quality health care system, a breakthrough for the educational opportunities that those poor people are not able to get today.
That vision, Liu says, is an integrated view of biology or an emphasis on «systems biology
«Biological timing: Biologists investigate the mechanism of an auxiliary clock: Researchers use new systems biology methods on plants.»
Dr. Sauer has about 60 publications in peer - reviewed journals over the last five years, and is a member of various international editorial boards and sits on a number of scientific steering and advisory committees of international organizations and companies in systems biology and biotechnology.
Nonetheless, systems biology has already turned biology on its head.
The Canadian Museum of Nature has been very supportive of my research and promotional activities, enabling me to study benthic communities in many systems, teach marine biology on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts, and popularize my findings through the media and museum exhibits.
We use a combination of genomics, systems biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics and molecular biology to investigate the networks formed by RNA binding proteins, miRNAs and their target genes and evaluate their impact on biological processes, cancer and disease states.
Update: In an e-mail, a spokesman for Veridex said the collaboration with Mass General is «is just beginning,» so there are «no details about what this future system will look like,» except that it will be small enough to sit on a lab bench and will be able to zero in on the biology of rare cells.
Researchers from immune biology professor Annette Oxenius's group have now discovered what keeps NK cells from killing off their «colleagues from the other department» of the immune system: healthy CD8 + cells are able to detect the immune messenger substance type 1 interferon, which binds to specific receptors on the surface of these immune cells and thereby conceals their stress.
The Transcriptomics Core Facility supports a systems biology approach in vaccine development focusing on the identification of transcriptomic correlates of vaccine immunogenicity and efficacy for a range of novel and licensed vaccines using PBMC or whole - blood and BAL fluid samples.
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