Sentences with phrase «plant biology as»

The ASPB public engagement activities Katie directs focus on encouraging plant biology as a career choice as well as «eradicating plant blindness» with resources and programs that trigger thinking critically about the ways plants are integral to everyone's daily life and a sustainable future.

The Committee also works to promote the public awareness of plant biology as a science with high relevance for society.

The Education committe of SPPS has collected here material and links to a number of resources related to teaching of plant biology as well as to other sites of general interest and value.

Science IRL is a YouTube series that provides the missing link between textbook science concepts and scientific research «in real life,» employing plant biology as the exemplar.

In plant biology as in other disciplines, a profusion of professional opportunities is available to the well - informed, well - prepared, and well - networked plant biologist.

Not exact matches

Today, new technologies are being used to artificially develop other traits in plants, such as resistance to browning in apples, and creating new organisms using synthetic biology.

«Paleontologists have come up with various kill scenarios for mass extinctions, but plant life may not be affected by dying suddenly as much as through interrupting one part of the life cycle, such as reproduction, over a long period of time, causing the population to dwindle and potentially disappear,» said co-author Cindy Looy, a UC Berkeley associate professor of integrative biology.

Mangahas studied plant biology and botany during his undergraduate years at the University of Washington, Seattle, as well as molecular biology.

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.

As an undergraduate majoring in biochemistry, I always felt that plant biology was underrepresented in my courses despite the fact that plants were able to carry out many interesting and unique biochemical processes.

If you've ever taken a biology class, you may recall seeing a portrait of Mendel next to a picture of pea plants that vary in traits such as their height and the color and shape of their seeds (round or wrinkled; green or yellow).

Defined narrowly — as a discipline distinct from other areas of plant biology — plant genomics is the study of the organization of genomes themselves.

Also online, an interactive feature including informational graphics, video clips, and more, as well as accompanying Web resources, explore how plant genome research is contributing to our understanding of plant biology and evolution and leading to tangible benefits for society.

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.

Cucumber is a major vegetable crop consumed worldwide as well as a model system for sex determination and plant vascular biology.

«As the first reference sequence of the sunflower genome, it's quite the accomplishment,» said paper co-author John M. Burke, professor of plant biology and member of the UGA Plant Ceplant biology and member of the UGA Plant CePlant Center.

Singer combined biology DBER research with research on the developmental biology of flowering in plants in her 30 years as a professor at Carleton College before recently becoming vice president for academic affairs and provost at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.

«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.

The research team conducted experiments on the roots of Arabidopsis, a plant often used as a «model organism» in plant biology and had its genome fully sequenced in 2000.

During her Ph.D., she integrated biology, chemistry, and geology and to investigate how non-mineralized organisms, such as plants and insects, become fossils.

She was accepted as a doctoral student there and began a research career in which she was among the first plant scientists to use molecular biology - based approaches to understand evolutionary processes in plants.

She majored in biology as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois, Chicago, where she studied with Donald A. Levin, a specialist on the origin, expansion, and demise of plant species.

As a professor in the department of plant and microbial biology at the University of California, Berkeley, he works with both, applying insights from one to the study of the other.

Allison Miller, an associate professor in biology at Saint Louis University, is the lead for the NSF project, which also involves researchers from the University of Missouri, Missouri State University, Danforth Plant Center and Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, as well as the Grape Genetics Research Unit of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Geneva, New York.

«Research on the ISS is being conducted in areas as diverse as high - energy particle physics, Earth remote sensing, protein crystallization, human physiology, radiation, plant cultivation experiments, fluids, combustion, materials science and biology,» she said.

The team of Luis Lopez - Molina, professor at the Department of Botany and Plant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioPlant Biology of UNIGE's Faculty of Science, Switzerland, has been interested for a long time in the mechanisms controlling germination, arguably the most critical decision in the life of a plant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioplant: «We have discovered that the genes involved in the synthesis of cutin, a waterproof substance, are important for the maintenance of dormancy in seeds of Arabidopsis thaliana, a small plant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioplant widely used as a model organism to study plant bioplant biology.

Couple that with a condition known to the plant community as «plant blindness» - the tendency for students to be more interested in studying animals than plants, and biology teachers» preference for using animal systems to demonstrate biological concepts - and you have yourself a plant publicity crisis.

Students engaged with PEER will experience relevant and stimulating laboratory activities designed to catalyze curiosity and understanding about science, biology, technology, plant science and using plants as a tool.

Some accomplishments ---- the prizes and the research, for instance ---- are easy to see in hindsight, but the real work, which is harder to document, is in planting the seeds that allow the research to move more quickly, or even to take new directions, such as the more interdisciplinary collaborations in theoretical biology that are growing in presence at KITP.

In keeping with HHMI's «people, not projects» approach to funding, this competition is open to those dedicated to basic research from both doctoral and / or medical training paths in the biomedical and life science disciplines, including plant, evolutionary, chemical and computational biology, as well as biophysics and biomedical engineering.

Children reading the comics should feel encouraged to use their natural inquisitiveness in biology and discover that a further study of plant biology could be very desirable and fun as well as lead to a future career.

2001 Ken Feldmann is recognized for his enormous impact on plant physiology, as well as plant developmental biology and plant genetics.

With transformational discoveries coming in fields such as neuroscience, plant biology, cancer, infectious diseases, and diabetes.

1996 Maarten J. Chrispeels for his research on the interface between cell biology and biochemistry, as a spokesperson for the science, as an inspiring teacher and mentor, and as an exacting editor of the journal Plant Physiology

Approaches successful in other systems, such as modeling signal transduction and synthetic biology methodologies [32] could improve future generations of detector plants by enhancing signal transmission and providing means to deal with biological «noise».

2004 — Natasha Raikhel — for her studies of protein trafficking and for developing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as the organism of choice for plant cell biology

Julia is also recognized for her role as a technology innovator in plant biology; her development of the «translating ribosome affinity purification «TRAP» method has opened a window into the «translatome».

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.

I moved to Cold Spring Harbor for three years to help get the plant group started as well as to improve my own training in maize genetics and molecular biology.

Plant biology researchers, educators and students need products and services such as books, lab equipment and software to assist them in continuing their efforts.

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.

After a postdoc in plant molecular biology at the Rockefeller University, she worked in Washington DC as an AAAS Risk Policy Fellow at the USDA and then as a study director for several reports on biotechnology and bioterrorism policy at the NAS / NRC.

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The Sequel System will allow BGI to meet the growing demand for SMRT Sequencing services for bacterial, plant, and animal de novo, transcriptomics, and epigenomics sequencing, and also in fields outside of agriculture, such as in conservation biology, like the «Life Periodic Plan'that we just launched during the 2018 J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference,» said Gao Qiang, CEO of BGI Tech.

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Anja has served ASPB and the plant biology community, as an officer (currently president) of the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists, as a Member of Program Committees for the ASPB / CSPB joint meetings, and as an editor for Plant Physiology since plant biology community, as an officer (currently president) of the Canadian Society of Plant Biologists, as a Member of Program Committees for the ASPB / CSPB joint meetings, and as an editor for Plant Physiology since Plant Biologists, as a Member of Program Committees for the ASPB / CSPB joint meetings, and as an editor for Plant Physiology since Plant Physiology since 2013.

Translation of fundamental plant biology research (e.g. from Arabidopsis thaliana) into crops such as wheat provides a potential route to deal with this challenge.

The scientists themselves come from a mixture of disciplines, such as computational neuroscience, plant science and molecular biology.

Guides to the plants and fungi that are available in the database are provided as well as information on the biology and diversity of both groups.

Every biology student learns about nutrient cycles, plant physiology, and anatomy, as well as units on the biosphere, energy transfer, and recycling nutrients.