Sentences with phrase «studied circadian»

And most recently, I studied circadian biology at the Mayo Clinic.

They had previously studied the circadian clock in the basal state and then in skin stem cells.

He earned a neurochemistry Ph.D. at the University of Oregon (UO) and then did two postdocs studying circadian rhythms, the first at the University of Texas, Austin, and the second at the Institute of Neuroscience at UO.

At the same time, «basic research scientists like me, who have been studying the circadian system for so many years, are now looking at its metabolic effects.

«We found that the majority of students were being jet - lagged by their class times, which correlated very strongly with decreased academic performance,» said study co-lead author Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow who studies circadian rhythm disruptions in the lab of UC Berkeley psychology professor Lance Kriegsfeld.

During the 62nd Biophysical Society Annual Meeting, held Feb. 17 - 21, in San Francisco, California, Andy LiWang at the University of California, Merced will present his lab's work studying the circadian clock of blue - green colored cyanobacteria.

«The results are profound, for a number of different reasons,» says Steven Kay, a geneticist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, who studies circadian clocks in plants.

The spiders are comparable to mutant animals scientists create in the lab to study circadian rhythms this short.

Fortunately, she landed a postdoctoral position at Rockefeller University in the laboratory of Michael Young, who studies circadian rhythms.

After graduation, Dr. Walton was recruited to work in the laboratory of Dr. Elliott Albers to study circadian rhythms to develop a more complete understanding of the neuroscience underlying biological rhythms.

Neuroscience Institute PostDoc James Walton Receives Fellowship Award to Study Circadian Rhythms

The scientists, both vascular biologists at the Medical College of Georgia, are Dr. Dan Rudic, who studies the circadian rhythm that drives our sleep - wake cycle, and Dr. Zsolt Bagi, who made the connection between ADAM17 and stiff blood vessels.

Transgenic Fly Lab (LS.1 j; LS.13 f; LS.14 a; BIO.5 j) This virtual lab allows students to create transgenic organisms using a animal model, a fruit fly, to study circadian rhythms.

Not exact matches

After studying numerous patients with circadian rhythms out of sync, he hypothesized that their adrenal glands were overworked and producing lower levels of the hormones needed to cope with stress.

I was a research subject in the Harvard Work Hours study and I've followed the medical research on sleep deprivation for many years, trying to figure out how best to manage my circadian rhythms and clear my brain of what seemed like constant fog.

A recent study looks at the effect of circadian rhythm on school performance.

Light is beneficial for infant circadian entrainment: an actigraphic study.

Studies show that circadian rhythms begin developing in the first days after birth.

In a study tracking the sleep patterns of mothers from pregnancy through the postpartum period, maternal sleep worsened after childbirth and continued to deteriorate until about 12 weeks postpartum (Kang et al 2002)--- the time when newborn sleep patterns begin to show marked circadian rhythms (Nishihara et al 2000).

Researchers know that circadian clocks in mammals control the internal body temperature to drive sleep patterns, says Orie Shafer, principal investigator of the study.

Saper and his colleagues have been studying the brain's suprachiasmatic nucleus, or SCN, which resets our daily circadian clock, and the genes that control wakefulness.

With a new $ 2.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, LeBourgeois recently launched a study in which she will expose 90 children to light of different intensities to determine how much it takes to impact the circadian clock.

This study reveals that the circadian clock is able to reprogram itself depending on a diet's nutritional content — which could lead to the identification of novel pharmacological targets for controlled diets.

«While our study found that some stress - related effects on circadian rhythms are short - lived, others are long - lasting,» said William Carlezon, PhD, chief of the Division of Basic Neuroscience and director of the Behavioral Genetics Laboratory at McLean Hospital and senior author of the study.

A study published by Cell Press October 16th in Cell now reveals that gut microbes in mice and humans have circadian rhythms that are controlled by the biological clock of the host in which they reside.

Some of the first validation of Keeler's research came in the 1990s from University of Oxford neuroscientist Russell Foster, who studied the daily cycle of our bodies — the so - called circadian rhythms that define the pattern of vital signs in a 24 - hour day.

«Most interestingly, we found a similar dynamic, or circadian, looping when we studied a gene called Glycogen synthase 2,» says Felix Naef.

These animals are used in studies of cardiovascular disease, and isolated rabbits sometimes have irregular circadian rhythms, which can influence heart rate, blood pressure, and hormone levels.

Our circadian rhythms affect our ability to fight off infection, and a study in mice suggests shift workers may be particularly vulnerable to viruses

Other studies have shown that long - term night - shift work by all kinds of workers can have a negative effect on mental and physical health and work performance, Sen notes, because of the effects of working when the body expects to be sleeping based on circadian rhythms.

«This is the first reliable evidence that a lunar rhythm can modulate sleep structure in humans when measured under the highly controlled conditions of a circadian laboratory study protocol without time cues,» the researchers say.

The study found that promoter - enhancer interactions oscillate along the 24 - hour cycle in the chromatin of healthy mice, as opposed to mice without a functioning circadian clock.

Miho Sato and her colleagues at The Research Institute for Time Studies at Yamaguchi University in Japan did experiments in mice and tissue cultures to show, for the first time, that increases in insulin affect circadian rhythms.

Based on multiple epidemiological studies, the World Health Organization in 2007 and the American Medical Association in 2012 each issued statements warning that extended exposure to light at night increases the risk of certain cancers, probably via alterations to circadian rhythms and associated hormone levels.

Many people had thought that it was best for the body to maintain insulin at a relatively constant level, says Carl Johnson, a circadian biologist who led the new study.

But a later study reported that body temperature can be off by as much as 5 hours from circadian phase, so Wright and Czeisler tracked levels of the nighttime hormone melatonin, thought to be a more precise measure.

In the original study, Scott Campbell and Patricia Murphy of Cornell University Medical College in New York state reported that by shining light on the backs of the knees of human subjects, they could shift the so - called circadian clock that governs sleep - wake cycles (Science, 16 January 1998, p. 396).

The results of this study highlight the importance of the direction of the circadian disadvantage on the probability of success.

«Although additional studies are certainly needed, scientists are becoming increasingly aware of the health risks associated with night workers and others exposed to circadian - disrupting behaviors.»

The expert is the author of a study published in the «International Journal of Cancer», which reveals the importance of assessing how the circadian system works in order to prevent chronodisruption and to implement measures to strengthen the biological clock in people whose system is damaged.

«Today, biological rhythms are studied which are clock «interruptions» and which enable us to indirectly assess the status of the circadian system.»

A new study in The Journal of General Physiology helps explain some of the biophysical processes underlying regulation of circadian rhythms.

Future modeling studies will try to determine if there is an optimal phase for taking one drug or the other to improve the amplitude of circadian rhythms.

The basic lines of his current work are three: in the first place, the study of evolutionary relations within aphids as well as the evolution of their life cycles; in the second place, the molecular bases that control the seasonal and circadian rhythms in aphids (and in insects in general) and their relation to vital cycles; and finally, myrmecophily in aphids, recently included.

A study in The Journal of General Physiology shows how changes in BK channel expression pattern might affect circadian rhythms.

A study of circadian rhythms has revealed that mice are more susceptible to infections at certain times of day.

The studied gene is involved in the circadian system, which has previously been shown to be implicated in mental disorders such as bipolar disorder, which intriguingly is comorbid with migraine.

In a recent study in The Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the University of Murcia investigated whether human adipose (fat) tissue possesses its own circadian rhythm in insulin sensitivity that could contribute to this phenomenon.

According to a new study, one reason may be that the genes that set the body clock are intimately connected to our immune cells: Messing with the circadian rhythm leads to messed - up immune cells.

«This year's Nobel Laureates have been studying this fundamental problem and solved the mystery of how an inner clock in most of our cells in our bodies can anticipate daily fluctuations between night and day to optimize our behavior and physiology... since the paradigm shifting discoveries by Hall, Rosbash and Young, circadian biology has developed into a highly dynamic research field with vast implications for our health and well - being.»