Sentences with phrase «postdoctoral associates»
Despite the great success and high visibility of the Hubble Fellowship program over the past decade, enhanced support of postdoctoral associates — both grant - funded and portable — is needed in many areas of astronomy and astrophysics, including ground - based astronomy, instrumentation, and theory.
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Postdoctoral associates are expected to perform research, exhibit critical thinking, and write scientific papers.
I am particularly honored to receive this award in recognition of research conducted with my collaborator Emmanuelle Charpentier and our outstanding postdoctoral associates and students.
The implementation of this program at BTI helps postdoctoral associates prepare to apply for principal investigator positions in the future.
By teaching this course, postdoctoral associates are considered to be adjunct instructors for TC3, which can set them apart from other candidates in an increasingly competitive job market.
The Outstanding Postdoc Awards recognize postdoctoral scholars currently coded as postdoctoral associates, research associates or post-doctoral fellows who demonstrate exemplary research contributions, leadership and communication for their career stage, independent of years of postdoctoral experience.
Cathee Johnson Phillips, the principal investigator for NPA's ADVANCE - PAID project, presented on mentoring plans for postdoctoral associates at the NSF JAM on June 9, 2009.
The Broad Branch Road campus prides itself on the vast diversity of the postdoctoral associates and fellows and the global community that is shared.
As employees, postdoctoral associates were awarded full benefits packages, including dental care, broader choices in health care, retirement benefits, disability insurance, and access to pretax saving plans for child care and retirement.
Most labs have some 20, sometimes 30, «lab members» — variously called postdoctoral fellows, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, assistant professors, technicians, administrative secretaries, «assistants for research» or lab helpers.
Currently a mixed group of undergraduates — both biology and math majors — are collaborating on a range of projects, mentored collectively by graduate students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty.
Approximately half of our past postdoctoral associates have gone on to faculty positions, with the others pursuing careers in private industry, government agencies, or nonprofit environmental organizations.
The number of postdoctoral positions varies according to levels of external funding, with a current group of six postdoctoral associates supported by the mathematical biology faculty.
The postdoctoral associates and students were initially worried when they noticed what appeared to be soot on a flexible film they were designing to coat various products.
Drawing on the services of a professional society and identifying pertinent resources from other disciplines including work / family centers and think tanks (see sidebar), literature, and benchmark studies, may well serve to expand the knowledge base and enhance the leadership around work / family issues for postdoctoral associates in the workforce.
Chen Wang, postdoctoral associate in Yale's department of applied physics and physics and the author of a new study on the topic, told HowStuffWorks, «Not only does the [Schrödinger's] cat «paradox» no longer feel absurd conceptually to physicists [but] even more exotic quantum states are becoming commonplace and attainable.»
Lead author Dustin Kemp, a postdoctoral associate in the UGA Odum School of Ecology, had the opportunity to study a bleaching event while conducting research at a reef off Puerto Morelos, Mexico.
Prior to his fellowship, Alejandro was a National Research Council postdoctoral associate at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, where he studied the effect of substrates on graphene reactivity.
This work enabled Libby and postdoctoral associate James Arnold to publish a carbon - 14 atomic calendar in the Dec. 23, 1949 issue of the journal Science.
Other authors on the paper include Wanyi Zhu, graduate research assistant in entomology, Penn State, and Daniel Schmehl, postdoctoral associate in entomology and nematology, University of Florida.
The paper, published online yesterday in the journal Science, was co-authored by Jessie Creamean, a postdoctoral associate at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., and Kaitlyn Suski, a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego.
The authors are University of Minnesota Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Associate Professor Mo Li, graduate student Li He, and postdoctoral associate Huan Li.
«Because there is currently no reliable screening available for ovarian cancer, most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages,» said the study's author, Bo (Bonnie) Qin, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.
The study's lead author, Toni - Lee Sterley, a postdoctoral associate in Bains» lab said, «What was remarkable was that CRH neurons from the partners, who were not themselves exposed to an actual stress, showed changes that were identical to those we measured in the stressed mice.»
«The scarcity of field measurements presents a major roadblock in creating high resolution global maps of plant traits,» said Ethan Butler, co-lead author and postdoctoral associate in the Department of Forest Resources at UMN's College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences (CFANS).
The films were designed and grown by postdoctoral associate Kibum Kang and graduate student Saien Xie.
The research finding answers a long - standing puzzle in the quest to understand brain wiring, says Dr. Dilek Colak, a postdoctoral associate in Dr. Jaffrey's laboratory.
While a postdoc may consider himself to be a «postdoc,» he may hold any one of numerous titles: postdoctoral scholar, postdoctoral associate, postdoctoral fellow, postdoctoral trainee, research fellow, research associate... and the list goes on.
Murase and the first author of this new paper, Ke Fang, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Maryland, attempt to explain the latest multi-messenger data from very high - energy neutrinos, ultrahigh - energy cosmic rays, and high - energy gamma rays, based on a single but realistic astrophysical setup.
«There may be cases where messenger RNA is just as important as DNA,» said Carrie Simms, PhD, a postdoctoral associate in Zaher's lab.
«This is the first study to offer an unbiased profile of novel imprinted genes in a mammal other than mice,» said lead author Xu Wang, a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Andrew Clark, professor of molecular biology and genetics and the study's senior author.
Omar Alminagorta, a former postdoctoral associate at the Utah Water Research Lab and USU Associate Professor Karin M. Kettenring, a wetland ecologist, co-authored the study.
As an example of the aqueous zinc battery's power and safety, Fei Wang, a jointly appointed postdoctoral associate at UMD's Clark School and ARL, and first author of the paper, cites the numerous battery fire incidents in cell phones, laptops and electric cars highlighted in recent media coverage.
«Private - public partnerships are going to be a hallmark of how more research is done in the future and this is a great model to see that in action,» says Kevin Rose, a postdoctoral associate at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison, who is active in the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network.
«Our hypothesis is that interferon gamma might have evolved as an efficient way to control the anti-pathogen response when organisms are social,» says Tony Filiano, a postdoctoral associate in Kipnis» lab.
But the weirdest extension of the cloaking concept is undoubtedly the «matter» cloak described this past year by Shuang Zhang, a postdoctoral associate in Xiang's lab.
In the new research — published Oct. 21 in the early online edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - Margeta, former postdoctoral associate Agata Habas, PhD, now at UC San Diego, and colleagues teased apart the relative contributions of neurons and astrocytes in Nrf2 signaling by performing experiments on cell cultures containing predominantly neurons, predominantly astrocytes, or a mixture of both.
«In Drosophila,» explains Vishnu Hosur, a postdoctoral associate in the Shultz lab, «iRhoms, are cardinal regulators of EGFR signaling.
«In this case, the pathway involved the loss of a protein called MBD3 that allows tumor cells to become more like stem cells and persist,» said first author on the study Rakesh Verma, a postdoctoral associate in hematology.
Here are just a few of the dishes Deines, now a postdoctoral associate at the Michigan State University Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability, and some of his fellow biologists cooked up to take a bite out of this invasive problem.
It demonstrated a meta - language prediction capability from neural signals across people, languages and bilingual status,» said Ying Yang, a postdoctoral associate in psychology at CMU and first author of the study.
Using the RNAi and CRISPR / Cas9 screening technologies they'd developed for dengue and influenza, George Savidis, research associate, Paul Meraner, MD, postdoctoral fellow, and William M. McDougall, PhD, postdoctoral associate, in the Brass lab, began by knocking out or depleting each protein in the human genome one at a time, then seeing how Zika or dengue virus grew when that human protein was gone.
«Traditionally, heavy drinking has been shown to be more prevalent in men, though more recent studies point to a narrowing in the gender gap,» said Megan Bertholomey, Ph.D., a postdoctoral associate in the laboratory of Mary Torregrossa, Ph.D., at the University of Pittsburgh who conducted the research.
A study by the Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Save Our Seas Shark Research Center and Guy Harvey Research Institute (GHRI) and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine just published in the journal BMC Genomics (lead author, postdoctoral associate Nicholas Marra,) now provides the first evidence that some shark and ray immunity genes have undergone evolutionary changes that may be tied to these novel immune system abilities.
«Targeted reduction of Aedes aegypti populations in areas where they are non-native could have little environmental impact, and drastically improve human health,» said Brantley Hall, a Ph.D. student in Tu's lab and co-first author on the paper, together with Sanjay Basu, a postdoctoral associate in Adelman's lab.
Tonya Bittner, a postdoctoral associate in Hajek's lab, is the paper's first author.
Schweikert, Johnsen and Duke postdoctoral associate Bob Fitak focused on the hogfish, or Lachnolaimus maximus, which spends its time in shallow waters and coral reefs in the western Atlantic Ocean, from Nova Scotia to northern South America.
«The dose - dependent and strong positive relationship between these two findings suggest that the psychosis - like effects of cannabis may be related to neural noise which disrupts the brain's normal information processing,» added first author Dr. Jose Cortes - Briones, a Postdoctoral Associate in Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.
«In the polarized light field, there is a lot of structure in the open ocean,» said physicist Parrish Brady, a postdoctoral associate in Cummings» lab.
To work out the genetic basis, Duke University postdoctoral associate Bob Fitak and biology professor Sönke Johnsen and colleagues investigated changes in gene expression that take place across the rainbow trout genome when the animal's magnetic sense is disrupted.