Sentences with phrase «student studying animal»

She is currently a CalPoly student studying Animal Science with hopes...

Here, Britain's top goat behavior expert Alan McElligott and his PhD students study the animals at the country's only sanctuary for abused goats.

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Sofia received her B.A. from New York University and was among the first students to graduate from their Animal Studies Initiative.

A Technomic study on college foodservice shows some of the unique challenges today's operators face: 49 percent of college and university students avoid some type of meat or animal products; more students are price - sensitive off - campus (58 percent) than on - campus (46 percent) and 54 percent of students say it's important to eat healthy and pay attention to nutrition.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

Students tell me they think more clearly, study better and have way more energy since substituting the green smoothie for an unhealthy meal loaded with animal products and processed, packaged food.

«The central mission of this initiative is to provide in - depth studies in animal agriculture to students in the VVS and surrounding schools leading to careers related to applied animal science.

«Other studies have seen a relationship between tameness and stress responses in animals,» said Jessica Hekman, the first author of the paper who worked on the study as a graduate student in the laboratory of University of Illinois animal sciences professor Anna Kukekova.

That piece isn't new,» says Stephen Fleming, lead author of the study and a doctoral student in the Department of Animal Sciences and the neuroscience program at U of I.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

An oral biologic medication has successfully treated chronic, precancerous inflammation in the intestine, according to results of an animal study authored by an MD / PhD student in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences.

«We were very curious to see what would happen if we were to change the expression pattern of Pax6 in developing mouse brain to mimic that observed in large - brained animals,» says Fong Kuan Wong, a PhD student in the lab of Wieland Huttner and first author of the study.

In their latest study, published today in the journal PLOS ONE, Scott Evans, a graduate student in the Department of Earth Sciences, and Mary Droser, a professor of paleontology, both in UCR's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, show that the Ediacaran - era fossil animal Dickinsonia developed in a complex, highly regulated way using a similar genetic toolkit to today's animals.

«We might not have known urchins and six - armed sea stars were affected if lab - held animals hadn't died right in front of us,» said the study's lead author Laura Jurgens, a graduate student at UC Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory who earned her doctorate in May.

In the study, neuroscientist Jeffrey Schall of Vanderbilt University and grad student Doug Hanes trained monkeys to do a reaction - time task in which the animals fix their eyes on a dot in the middle of a blank computer screen and, when that dot disappears and another appears to the right or the left, shift their gaze to the new dot.

The students were studying the evolution of geophagia — the practice of eating dirt, especially claylike soils, which is something animals and people have been doing for millennia.

But as the students would learn, studies of animals and human cultures suggest that geophagia is not necessarily abnormal — in fact, it may well be adaptive.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

Recently, Jim and his students have been studying the olfactory systems of different types of animals for evidence that the cerebral cortex as a whole grew out of the olfactory system.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

Andersen was studying the activity of neurons in the hippocampus — a brain area associated with memory — and the two students wanted to try to link this precise activity of cells with the behaviour of animals.

As a compulsive student, writer, traveler, and explainer, he is to ethology — the study of animal behavior — what Carl Sagan was to astronomy.

His hunch is based on studies — many done by his former graduate student Brian Hare — comparing domestic animals with their wild relatives.

The study is a collaboration between Melissa Nelson Slater, psychology doctoral student at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY) and Assistant Curator of Animal Husbandry at the Bronx Zoo, and Dr. Mark Hauber, Professor of Psychology in the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program at Hunter College.

That's makes sense to Richard Connor, an animal behaviorist at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, who studies wild dolphins in Shark Bay, Australia, and who supervised a student who studied killer whales at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida.

A new study by JCU PhD student Anna Pintor, published in the journal Ecological Monographs, is one of the first to test the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH)-- which proposes that animals living in environmentally variable areas should be able to tolerate more environmental fluctuations as a result.

The discovery, reported in the journal Nutrients, adds to the evidence that iron deficiency early in life can have long - lasting consequences for the brain, said University of Illinois animal sciences professor Ryan Dilger, who led the study with Austin Mudd, a graduate student in the neuroscience program at the U. of I.

In this new study, Kandel's former student, John H. Byrne, who heads the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has brought a new twist to the original learning method developed in Kandel's lab — a technique that consisted of shocking slug tails at regular intervals and then seeing whether the animals overreacted later when receiving another zap, a sign that they remembered their tormentors all too well.

University of Calgary researchers Raylene Reimer, professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology, and PhD student Heather Paul, in the Biochemistry and Molecular Biology graduate program in the Cumming School of Medicine, have published a new animal study that describes how a special type of dietary fibre known as prebiotic impacts the gut microbiota and may be one factor in reducing obesity in mom and baby.

Additional researchers contributing to the papers include Liu; Thomas Dietz, MSU professor of environmental science and policy, sociology, and animal studies; Wei Liu, former CSIS doctoral student now a postdoctoral fellow at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria; Junyan Luo, CSIS research associate; Daniel Kramer, MSU associate professor in fisheries and wildlife and James Madison College; Xiaodong Chen, former CSIS doctoral student now on faculty at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

«When animals learn, they can learn very quickly,» said Brendan Barrett, a graduate student in animal behavior at the University of California, Davis, who led the study, published June 7 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. «What are the psychological mechanisms animals use to learn?»

Joao Batista, PhD student and first author of this study, explains: «We observed that this feature is due to changes in the composition of the community of bacteria in the intestine, which is more similar across individuals with a healthy immune system, and is quite diverse in animals with an immune compromised system.»

«This evidence of animal - specific melanin in fossil feathers is the final nail in the coffin that shows that these microbodies are indeed melanosomes and not microbes,» said Ryan Carney, co-author of the study and a graduate students at Brown Univ..

In a new study, University of Illinois professor of psychology Renée Baillargeon, right, and graduate student Peipei Setoh showed that infants expect objects they identify as animals to have insides.

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.

Committee Work and Service: Professional: Faculty member of the CSHL Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next - generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education; Diversity committees for the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and American Society of Andrology; Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (vice-president and co-chair student research funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue Research).

This licensee allows investigators to use materials regulated by the NRC in research and development, animal studies and student training.

The following profile of REGEN2017 student Susannah Kassmer, Ph.D., appears in the fall edition of the MDI Biological Laboratory's «Breaking Through» magazine, which focuses on how the study of highly regenerative animal models can help science understand the potential for regeneration in humans.

Although most students in the course focused their projects on companion or farm animals, a few of us ventured to the zoo world to study more exotic species.

Students are captivated by working with live, moving animals, and it reassures the students that, because the fish are clear, they can be studied with the provided microscopes without harmiStudents are captivated by working with live, moving animals, and it reassures the students that, because the fish are clear, they can be studied with the provided microscopes without harmistudents that, because the fish are clear, they can be studied with the provided microscopes without harming them.

A study by Andrew Shtulman of Occidental College showed that even students with an advanced science education had a hitch in their mental gait when asked to affirm or deny that humans are descended from sea animals and that the Earth goes around the sun.

In the latest edition of EBioMedicine, Bo Wang, doctoral student in the WSU Department of Animal Sciences, detailed results of his four - year study of the effects of prenatal vitamin A in mice.

Student Travel Awards to the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour conference (2003 and 2004) and the Australian Neuroscience Society conference (2004)

«We discovered that a specific protein, thrombospondin - 2 (TSP2), is elevated in wounds of patients with diabetes as well as in animal models of diabetes,» said Britta Kunkemoeller, a doctoral student at Yale University who conducted the study.

Later, as a college student, Liz continued studying animals and people.

Students receive training with a «systems» biology approach through courses, bench work, lab discussions and publications spanning a broad range of muscle - biology questions using studies at the level of single cells, tissues, animals and humans.

In describing the studies he conducted with his grad students, Campbell says only that a «pattern was beginning to emerge: nutrients from animal - based foods increased tumor development while nutrients from plant - based foods decreased tumor development.»

A number of students work with zookeepers and scientific staff in studying animal behavior, keeping animals active and challenged, and promoting public transit to the zoo.

«We were studying Africa and ancient Egypt,» says Jamoom, «so we took the students to show them the places we were actually raising money for, the communities that had received the animals.»

• Choice: Students have options within the curriculum, such as which animal habitat they want to study, which relevant texts they want to read, and how they want to present their learning.