Sentences with phrase «postdoctoral research fellows»

Wellesley, MA — In this talk, Jennifer Grossman and Linda Charmaraman, postdoctoral research fellows at the Wellesley Centers for Women, will discuss the importance of race for white adolescents and how it differs across school and class contexts.

He consistently won Harvard University's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching and has trained more than 60 doctoral students and postdoctoral research fellows, many of whom are now professors at leading institutions.

SURPAS is a volunteer advocacy forum with the aim of enhancing and enriching the experience of postdoctoral research fellows at Stanford.

Gary obtained a PhD, and master's in science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Healthy Mothers, Babies and Children's Theme; South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute; Affiliate Lecturer, The University of Adelaide, University of Adelaide

David Olivier, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, on why social networks are a key spinoff of urban farming

Pilyoung Kim, Ph.D. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Section on Bipolar Spectrum Disorders, Emotion and Development Branch, at the National Institute of Mental Health.

«Sustainability research and policy initiatives need to focus more on the practices underlying how and why we consume resources rather than the technology,» says Dr Chris Foulds, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University.

Susan Dodsworth is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow In The Political Economy of Democracy Promotion (The Westminster Foundation For Democracy Project) at the University of Oxford.

Theresa Kuhn, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Nuffield College, and Claudia Schrag Sternberg, Career Development Fellow at St Hugh's, presented their latest work.

The NASEM report, commissioned by Congress in 2016, collected career aspiration, training, and outcome data from NIH, research institutions, and professional societies, as well as solicited suggestions from individual university administrators and biomedical scientists at different stages of their careers.The report especially zeroed in on the plight of the postdoctoral research fellow.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Jessica Wentz, associate director and a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University's Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, wrote in a blog post that the phrasing shift is more technically precise and likely addresses concerns about how far an agency needs to go in calculating emissions.

Upon graduating from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, I was recruited as a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of orthopedics at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

The findings, led by first author E. Whitney Evans, a postdoctoral research fellow at Brown University and the Weight Control and Diabetes Center at The Miriam Hospital, are published online in the journal Public Health Nutrition.

«We swapped the nuclei of the young eggs with those of the old eggs and we observed problems in the old eggs containing a young nucleus,» explained Shoma Nakagawa, a postdoctoral research fellow at the CRCHUM and at the Université de Montréal.

According to a 2013 study of California farmers, factors like exposure to extreme weather events and perceived changes in water availability made farmers more likely to believe in climate change, while negative experiences with environmental policies can make farmers less likely to believe that climate change is occurring, said Meredith Niles, a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard's Sustainability Science Program and lead author of the study.

The following is a guest post by Dr. Joshua Rhodes, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in The Webber Energy Group and the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin.

Rochelle Nicholls, P.D., is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia and may be reached at [email protected].

«We see that mammals and birds are better able to stretch out and extend their habitats, meaning they adapt and shift much easier,» lead study author Jonathan Rolland, a postdoctoral research fellow at Canada's University of British Columbia, said in a statement.

«Skipping breakfast may lead to one or more risk factors, including obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes, which may in turn lead to a heart attack over time,» said Leah E. Cahill, Ph.D., study lead author and Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Mass..

«This work was driven by talented scientists in the lab: graduate students Lian He and Peng Tan and postdoctoral research fellow Guolin Ma, Ph.D.,» Zhou said, «who fearlessly undertook this daunting project and overcame all the challenging obstacles to make this technique into reality.»

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

Researchers have suspected a link between anxiety and poor health, including diabetes, for many years but none have detailed the biological pathway responsible, said lead author Kyle Murdock, a postdoctoral research fellow in psychology.

The results of the study, led by Postdoctoral Research Fellow Dr Laura Langan and Professor of Genetic Toxicology & Ecotoxicology Awadhesh Jha, are published in Biology Open.

«The chemicals produced by cooking meats at high temperatures induce oxidative stress, inflammation and insulin resistance in animal studies, and these pathways may also lead to an elevated risk of developing high blood pressure,» said Gang Liu, Ph.D., lead author of the study and a postdoctoral research fellow in the department of nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.

In addition to Vogel and Aizenberg, the research team included: Rebecca A. Belisle, a former Wyss research assistant who is now a graduate student in Materials Science and Engineering at Stanford University; Benjamin Hatton, Ph.D., formerly a Technology Development fellow at the the Wyss Institute and a research appointee at SEAS who is now an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at the University of Toronto; and Tak - Sing Wong, Ph.D., a former postdoctoral research fellow at the Wyss Institute who is now an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering at Penn State University.

«The overwhelming majority of all firearms used for criminal purposes, some 80 percent, are acquired through private party transactions,» said Alvaro Castillo - Carniglia, lead author of the study and a VPRP postdoctoral research fellow.

Steven Portugal is an ecophysiologist and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Structure and Motion Laboratory at the Royal Veterinary College at the University of London in the United Kingdom.

One of those was a young postdoctoral research fellow named Sheena Josselyn, a petite, red - haired native of Ohio with a passion for pop culture icons like Jerry Seinfeld and Tom Cruise.

«With increasing numbers of blacks entering professional and management roles in numerous industries, it is important to investigate and address the social factors contributing to the short sleep disparities in blacks compared with whites in general, and particularly in professional settings,» said lead author Chandra Jackson, Yerby postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at HSPH.

«Beginning readers have to sound out words as they read, which makes reading a very long and laborious process,» says the study's lead investigator, Laurie Glezer, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow.

«One of our killifish mutants recapitulates, but in a rapid manner, a human disease called Dyskeratosis congenita, which is due to deficits in a complex involved in maintaining the end of chromosomes, or telomeres,» says lead author Dr. Itamar Harel, a postdoctoral research fellow in genetics.

We've used modern molecular approaches to characterize the vaginal microbiome and link specific bacteria to HIV acquisition risk in young women living in Sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV is most profound,» says first author Christina Gosmann, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard.

«All humans grow up listening to tens of thousands of speech examples, with the result that our brains contain a comprehensive mapping of the likelihood that any given pair of mouth movements and speech sounds go together,» said Dr. Michael Beauchamp, professor of neurosurgery at Baylor College of Medicine and senior author on the paper with John Magnotti, postdoctoral research fellow at Baylor.

«People are getting all this information on their sleep patterns and not really knowing how to interpret it, or even if it's legitimate data,» says study lead investigator, Rebecca Robbins, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Health.

Dr Rick Body, who is also National Institute for Health Research Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Honorary Lecturer in Cardiovascular Medicine at The University of Manchester, said: «I think the beauty of this technique is its simplicity.

«Sedentary behavior is emerging as a risk factor for poor health,» said Christine L. Sardo Molmenti, PhD, MPH, postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health in New York.

She is a former postdoctoral research fellow of the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in Los Angeles and was, until recently, senior curator of archaeology at the Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg.

Currently, she is a postdoctoral research fellow at Boston University.

«Calcium signaling regulates many important cellular functions, like muscle contraction, neural communication, gene transcription and tissue growth,» said Fenfang Li, a postdoctoral research fellow in Zhong's laboratory and lead author of the study.

Dr Lara Sciscio, postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Cape Town, said: «This discovery marks the first occurrence of very large carnivorous dinosaurs in the Early Jurassic of southern Gondwana — the prehistoric continent which would later break up and become Africa and other landmasses.

Dr. Joseph A. Hill, (left) Chief of Cardiology and senior author of the study, and Dr. Zhao Wang, a postdoctoral research fellow and the study's first author.

«As researchers started using these cells more, it became clear that during the process of reprogramming to create stem cells the cell was also rejuvenated in other ways,» says Jerome Mertens, a postdoctoral research fellow and first author of the new paper.

Lead author William Taylor, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, says that this model «enables us for the first time to link horse use with other important cultural developments in ancient Mongolia and eastern Eurasia, and evaluate the role of climate and environmental change in the local origins of horse riding.»

Olsen and postdoctoral research fellow Cindy Vigueira sample weedy rice in the WUSTL greenhouse for DNA extraction and analyses.

Study co-author Katy Sheen, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton, says: «These findings will help us to understand the processes that drive the ocean circulation and mixing so that we can better predict how our Earth system will respond to the increased levels of carbon dioxide that we have released into the atmosphere.»

To help figure out which was actually responsible, the psychologists worked with David Tannenbaum, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business at the time of the research and now an assistant professor at the University of Utah.

«There's an ongoing need to develop new gene synthesis techniques,» said Calin Plesa, a UCLA postdoctoral research fellow and co-first author of the paper.

Luz Garcini, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Psychology at Rice and the study's lead author, said that DREAMers in particular are at risk for psychological distress and diminished quality of life as a result of the many complex stressors they face.