Sentences with phrase «staff scientist who»

«We're trying to identify environmental, economic, social and other impacts of a technology well before it actually exists in the world,» said Jeff Greenblatt, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who heads the ETA team.

«When I think about the tradeoff of a graduate student for a staff scientist who is already extremely well trained, who can work without constant supervision, who can really help train the younger people in the laboratory,... I actually think we'll be more productive,» she said.

Wei Liu, a TSRI staff scientist who was first author of the study, said, «It's a big advantage that you don't have to harvest individual crystals — you can just load the whole gel - like sample with embedded microcrystals in the injector and start collecting data.

«We suspected that the young are most vulnerable because of their immature immune systems, but we didn't have a lot of hard evidence to show that before,» said study lead author Bo Hang, a Berkeley Lab staff scientist who previously found that thirdhand smoke could lead to genetic mutations in human cells.

And since paleontologists and coal companies have known for at least a century that the mines are treasure chests of ancient secrets, many companies have staff scientists who look for unusual formations and alert researches when they find something good.

Not exact matches

Key staff members who help the company's operations run smoothly include General Manager Sherry Hibshman, who carries out company policies and supervises other managers; Food Scientist Brandy Kendig, who tests flour to make sure it conforms to government regulations; and Mike Gingrich, who is in charge of the milling operations.

The Board of Trustees, Members of the Advisory Council and Staff of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) wish to commiserate with Nigerians on the death of an erudite scholar, a selfless personality and brilliant political scientist, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, who was a Member of our Advisory Council and Director - General of the Electoral Institute until his death.

Being a political scientist doesn't make one a good leader / persuader (evidence: very few of them become leaders naturally); and although knowledge of the subject matter can help one be better at it, that's why a politician has advisers / staff who ARE experts at such studies.

The Board of Trustees, Members of the Advisory Council and Staff of Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) and Centre for Democracy and Development (CDD) wish to commiserate with Nigerians on the death of an erudite scholar, a selfless personality and brilliant political scientist, Prof. Abubakar Momoh, who was a Member of our Advisory Council -LSB-...]

High on his list is the creation of a staff scientist position for researchers who love the bench but don't want to deal with the added responsibilities that come with assistant professorships.

To see if entertainment could offer a solution to this challenge, Ingber teamed up with Charles Reilly, Ph.D., a molecular biophysicist, professional animator, and Staff Scientist at the Wyss Institute who previously worked at movie director Peter Jackson's Park Road Post film studio, to create a film that would capture viewers» imaginations by telling the story of a biological process that was accurate down to the atomic level.

«The frontiers of fundamental physics have traditionally been studied with particle colliders, such as the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, by smashing together subatomic particles at great energies,» says UCSD physicist George Fuller, who collaborated with Paris and other staff scientists at Los Alamos to develop the novel theoretical model.

«I know a lot of [staff] scientists who do have to worry on a year - to - year basis whether they're going to have a job next year,» Spurgeon says.

The extent to which the number of staff scientist positions will continue increasing remains to be seen, but the role can offer an appealing option for those who want to stay close to research while also expanding their skills and responsibilities.

The specific duties of staff scientists — who can work in core facilities as well as in labs in academia, non-profit research institutions, and government — generally include both doing independent research and helping others get work done, though the specifics vary.

Scientists, for example, can attend member - hosted events or organize their own event by inviting lawmakers or their staff members who specialize in science and technology policy to visit their institution's facilities, said Josh Shiode, senior government relations officer at AAAS.

But 20 will be promising young scientists not far from beyond their Ph.D. s who supervise as many as two other people — also postdocs, grad students or staff scientists — and hold one - time - only, nonrenewable, 5 - year appointments.

Several programs have been initiated to help promote young investigators, such as the Avenir program at INSERM, which provides young scientists who already have a permanent position with fully equipped space within their host department and funding toward research expenses and salaries for nonpermanent staff for up to 5 years.

And I very much like having a writer on staff who's a scientist with deep expertise who can say, yes, this is as neat as it sounds.

By this, I don't mean «failed scientists who couldn't think of anything else to do with their sad, empty lives», but staff who have changed direction in their careers through choice or necessity, e.g., they still have mortgages to pay and kids to raise.

More than twenty years ago, AAAS created and has since administered the Congressional Science and Engineering Fellowship Program, which has sponsored more than 500 scientists and engineers who have worked on the staffs of more than 200 personal and committee offices in the House and Senate.

Under some of those other systems, research institutions employ many scientists as long - term, career staff members who have professional - level salaries and clear career paths potentially leading to greater responsibility and leadership.

Those who challenged the states also suggested that courts would be ill - equipped to make the complex judgments that big regulatory agencies staffed with scientists and other experts make on a routine basis.

«With this new technique, we can grow large sheets of electronic - grade graphene in much less time and at much lower temperatures,» says Caltech staff scientist David Boyd, who developed the method.

«If not developed carefully, these programs could inadvertently cause a decrease in qualified and capable staff who can conduct research involving sensitive materials or research animals, or drive scientists to become security risks themselves.»

«I am especially excited about the improvements we observed in cognitive and behavioral dysfunctions because these abnormalities are particularly hard on the kids — and their parents,» said first author Ania Gheyara, MD, PhD, a staff scientist at Gladstone who is also affiliated with the UCSF Department of Pathology.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

OTA's staff consists mostly of scientists and engineers who deliver some 40 to 50 technical reports a year to Congress on everything from fusion research to Indian archaeology.

«With increasing globalization, human movement and connectivity, the capacity for human - associated organisms to invade and proliferate is on the rise,» said Jose Loaiza, research associate at STRI and staff scientist at INDICASAT, who led the study.

That will both reduce the load on the LCLS staff and lead to a better experience for the scientists who are coming here to use it.»

Jasper, who is now a staff scientist at Genentech, says this activation is important for rapid tissue repair, but at the same time it also increases the probability that stem cells will differentiate, thus losing their stem cell status.

Job responsibilities held by pharmaceutical scientists outside academia include 3 percent who said they are owners or partners, 10 percent executives, 41 percent directors or managers, 19 percent supervisors or coordinators, 19 percent technical contributors, and 10 percent staff or something else.

Publishing raw data also opens scientists up to attacks from industry, which can twist or distort data to shape a deregulatory agenda, said Betsy Southerland, a former senior EPA official in the Office of Water who worked on a staff analysis of the «HONEST Act.»

Also like Corb, he says that those who have lost their jobs have «almost invariably been postdocs, staff scientists, or other nontenure - track researchers.»

Jaramillo, a staff geologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, is leading a team of about 40 scientists who are taking advantage of this brief opportunity to study the rocks before they again surrender to plants or water.

• In News & Analysis, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee wrote about troubles at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, and other California observatory facilities, after a decision by the University of California's (UC's) Office of the President to cut off funding for the salaries of 11 faculty and staff members at the University of California Observatories system who are perceived by some to enjoy privileged status, with a lighter teaching load than other UC scientists and an 11 - month contract instead of the 9 - month contracts of other UC faculty.

«This material should be very useful for spintronics studies,» said Sung - Kwan Mo, a physicist and staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source (ALS) who co-led the study, published in Nature Physics.

David Baird, the scientist who resigned from the museum's board, says «the elimination of most of the staff in vertebrate zoology... is to the horror of virtually every natural scientists in the country».

«Comparing human, chimpanzee and bonobo cells can give us clues to understand biological processes, such as infection, diseases, brain evolution, adaptation or genetic diversity,» says senior research associate Iñigo Narvaiza, who led the study with senior staff scientist Carol Marchetto at the Salk Institute in La Jolla.

Five years ago, George was sure there had been a mistake when Taryn Grieder, a staff scientist in Derek van der Kooy's lab at the University of Toronto, who was collaborating with George on this project, detected a stress peptide in the VTA.

Well - conserved art objects allow researchers to look at uniquely complex materials of a certain age that generate intriguing chemistry questions and require new techniques, says SLAC staff scientist Apurva Mehta, who is also an affiliated faculty member at the Stanford Archaeology Center.

«What we've shown is that we can take these cells out of a mouse and study them and regulate them in the laboratory by providing them with a specific factor,» says Peter C. Gray, a staff scientist in Salk's Clayton Foundation Laboratories for Peptide Biology, who collaborated on the new work with Benjamin T. Spike, a senior research associate in the laboratory of Salk Professor Geoffrey M. Wahl.

Researchers who contributed to the work include staff scientist Mathias Leblanc, Ph.D. and postdoctoral researcher Mark Wade, Ph.D., in the Gene Expression Laboratory and professor Aart G. Jochemsen, Ph.D. at the Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands.

That is completely at odds with the characteristics of an efficient catalyst, which helps to split water to store the energy of light in chemical bonds,» said Sharp, who is also a staff scientist at Berkeley Lab's Chemical Sciences Division.

«Some family members with the same number of repeats experience the onset of symptoms at different ages,» shared Julia Kaye, PhD, a staff research scientist at Gladstone who will help lead the scientific efforts.

Peter Nugent, a senior staff scientist in the Computational Research Division at Berkeley Lab and an adjunct professor of astronomy at UC Berkeley who also took part in the study, had helped to lead observations of the exotic star explosion at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

This will help us learn how nanoparticles grow atom by atom, and it sets the stage for a materials - design approach starting from the smallest building blocks,» says Mary Scott, who conducted the research while she was a Foundry user, and who is now a staff scientist.

«We found that people who carry progranulin mutations were nearly twice as likely to have retinal lipofuscin deposits than healthy people,» shared Michael Ward, MD, PhD, a former staff scientist at Gladstone and lead author of the study, as well as adjunct assistant professor of neurology at UCSF.

The Green Bank Observatory has a rare combination of assets: 1) A laboratory where frontier research is an ongoing activity; 2) a professional staff of scientists and engineers who are also heavily involved in education and outreach; 3) facilities such as the Green Bank Science Center, radio telescopes, housing and food services, all available for formal and informal educational programs.

Approximately 125 scientists and staff who are engaged in some of the most advanced genomic research will be housed in the building.