Like most
systems biology centers, however, it's hard to know exactly what to call the kind of scientists they'll be hiring.
Not exact matches
The agency supports network science through individual institutes (for example, the National Institute of General Medical Sciences funds nine National
Centers for
Systems Biology, academic
centers that emphasize network
biology) and through agencywide initiatives (such as the National Technology
Centers for Networks and Pathways, funded by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research and the recently announced Human Connectome Project, which aims to map the connections among the human brain's 100 billion neurons).
Lead author Yarden Katz, a fellow at the
center and in the department of
systems biology at Harvard Medical School in Boston, says they were interested in examining the relationship between NIH funding and metrics widely used to indicate scientific quality and determine career advancement, such as publication, citation, and patent counts.
Working with colleagues at the
Center for Theoretical Biological Physics at the University of California, San Diego, he wants to unravel what it is that makes bacteria so adept at survival by looking at pattern formation in complex dynamic
systems alongside the molecular
biology and biophysics of bacteria.
«With switchgrass, for example, frequently you can not harvest the first year's crop because it takes a long time for the root
system to establish,» says study author Philip Benfey, a professor of
biology at Duke University and director of Duke's Institute for Genome Sciences and Policy
Center for
Systems Biology.
In Europe, the
Center for Research and Interdisciplinarity (CRI), for example, offers a 2 - year Interdisciplinary Approaches in Life Sciences master's program with a specific track in
systems and synthetic
biology.
The current group of
centers, residing at universities and medical research facilities across the country, addresses fields such as
systems biology, image processing, and biophysical modeling, all of which are related to computational neuroscience.
The MGH Research Institute conducts the largest hospital - based research program in the nation, with an annual research budget of more than $ 800 million and major research
centers in HIV / AIDS, cardiovascular research, cancer, computational and integrative
biology, cutaneous
biology, human genetics, medical imaging, neurodegenerative disorders, regenerative medicine, reproductive
biology,
systems biology, photomedicine and transplantation
biology.
As part of our coverage of the 2017 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting, held June 2 — 6 in Chicago, we are speaking with Gordon Mills, MD, PhD, chair of the department of
systems biology and professor of medicine and immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer
Center in Houston, about ways to incorporate homologous recombination markers into clinical practice for ovarian cancer.
The work was done in the laboratory of Doris Tsao (BS» 96), professor of
biology, leadership chair and director of the Tianqiao and Chrissy Chen
Center for
Systems Neuroscience, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Investigator.
Since 2007 he is heading the research group «Cellular Networks &
Systems Biology» at the Biotechnology Center in Dresden, Germany focusing on computational systems biology and statistical ge
Systems Biology» at the Biotechnology
Center in Dresden, Germany focusing on computational
systems biology and statistical ge
systems biology and statistical genetics.
The Park Nanoscience Lab at the Europe Headquarters in Manheim Germany is a new branch of Park
Systems and part of a growing network of Park Global Nanoscience labs including a recently opened Park Nanoscience Center at SUNY Polytech Institute in Albany, New York.The Park Nanoscience Lab will showcase advanced atomic force microscopy (AFM) systems, demonstrate a wide variety of cutting - edge applications - ranging from materials science, to chemistry and biology, to semiconductor and data storage devices - and provide hands on experience, training and service, year -
Systems and part of a growing network of Park Global Nanoscience labs including a recently opened Park Nanoscience
Center at SUNY Polytech Institute in Albany, New York.The Park Nanoscience Lab will showcase advanced atomic force microscopy (AFM)
systems, demonstrate a wide variety of cutting - edge applications - ranging from materials science, to chemistry and biology, to semiconductor and data storage devices - and provide hands on experience, training and service, year -
systems, demonstrate a wide variety of cutting - edge applications - ranging from materials science, to chemistry and
biology, to semiconductor and data storage devices - and provide hands on experience, training and service, year - round.
Meet Barot joined the foundation in June 2016 as a part of the
systems biology group in the Simons
Center for Data Analysis to develop protein function prediction methods using deep learning techniques.
In 1996, she started the
Center of Excellence for Breast Cancer Care at UCSF to integrate clinical care and research, automate tools for the capture of patient and clinical data, and develop
systems to tailor care to
biology, patient preference, and performance.
«With this (technology), the
center will provide the
biology research community with tools to study an enormous number of biological
systems that are currently inaccessible by current X-ray methods,» says NSF Chemistry of Life Processes Program Manager David Rockcliffe.
She has also started her training with the Institute for Functional Medicine which teaches healthcare professionals to get to the root cause of lifestyle - driven disease through a patient -
centered,
systems biology approach.
Dr. Justin Sonnenburg makes a powerful argument for viewing our microbiota as the control
center for human
biology — that our microbiota are not just impacting digestion and absorption, but having systemic impacts on our immune
system, our metabolism,
At its quarterly meeting last month, the board also elected Josephine Bennett, a teacher of secondary - school
biology in Memphis; Lois Jean Turner, a teacher at Stix Investigative Learning
Center in St. Louis; Alma Garcia Vining, an elementary - school teacher at the P.A. Diskin School in Las Vegas, Nev.; and Nettie Webb, a language - arts coordinator for the Hartsdale, N.Y., school
system.
According to the
Center on the Developing Child, «extensive research on the
biology of stress now shows that healthy development can be derailed by excessive or prolonged activation of stress response
systems in the body and brain.»
The
centers» mission will be to conduct
systems biology research on microbes and plants.