Maria Harrison will participate in a $ 13.5 million, multi-institution
systems biology project with Daniel Schachtman of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln to develop sorghum that is more drought resistant and uses nitrogen more efficiently.
Systems biology is a priority area in the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme, and the E.U. has just funded a $ 9 million pan-European
systems biology project called Experimental Network for Functional Integration (ENFIN), among other projects.
HepatoSys, with $ 13 million funding from the German Ministry for Research and Education (BMBF) for the first 3 years and $ 24 million promised for the following three, is a nationwide German
systems biology project.
Most of Europe's national governments are making sizable bets — millions of euros — on
systems biology projects.
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).
Since the completion of the Human Genome
Project in 2003, scientists have expanded their knowledge of how living cells work with new approaches including genomics, proteomics, and
systems biology.
Although the massive scope of
projects in
systems biology makes collaborations necessary, some researchers undervalue multiauthored studies.
We congratulate stem cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research
project «
Systems biology of embryonic stem...
According to Dr Adil Mardinoglu, SciLifeLab Fellow and leader of the
systems biology effort in the
project: «We are now in possession of incredibly powerful
systems biology tools for medical research, allowing, for the first time, genome - wide analysis of individual patients with regards to the consequence of their expression profiles for clinical survival.»
We congratulate stem cell researcher Martin Leeb on winning an International FWF grant for the research
project «
Systems biology of embryonic stem cell differentiation».
The relocation of the University's Howard Hughes Medical Institute from the Peck Pavilion to the IRB will, for example, support a new
project in which Susan Lindquist, PhD, Albert D. Lasker professor of molecular genetics and cell
biology and Howard Hughes Investigator, and researchers from the departments of chemistry and physics will use the inherent complexity and diversity found in biological
systems to develop new functional materials.
The AgedBrainSYSBIO consortium is coordinated by the French National Institute for health and medical research (Inserm, Prof. Michel Simonneau) and brings together an scientists with internationally recognized expertise in
systems biology of the synapse and four small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) with a leading role in the
project to assure the innovation potential and translation of
project results to clinical application.
The ILRS PhD
projects use interdisciplinary approaches, combining methods of microbiology, natural product chemistry, chemical ecology, bioinformatics and
systems biology to decipher complex biological mechanisms underlying microbial and biomolecular
SYSCOL —
Systems biology of colorectal cancer — is a collaborative
project financed by the EU Framework Programme 7.
Multiple interacting factors affect the performance of engineered biological
systems in synthetic
biology projects.
During the course of the
project, the network furthered tools and strategies to make available to the wider research community, a new approach to the
systems biology of the living cell.
While the focus is on life sciences to prepare students for high school
biology, to ensure they have the skills for
projects and labs, students spend time reviewing general principles of science, the scientific method, measurement, and measuring using the metric
system.
The Biomimicry Institute's AskNature
project brings
biology to the design table by inspiring and enabling innovators around the world to emulate nature's time - tested forms, processes, and
systems as they solve this century's greatest challenges.