Sentences with phrase «team of colleagues sequenced»

To explore the genetic diversity of MERS, virologist Paul Kellam of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, United Kingdom, and an international team of colleagues sequenced viral genomes sampled from 21 patients in Saudi Arabia between June 2012 and June 2013.

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Professor Moore, his QAAFI colleague Professor Ben Hayes, and Dr Brian Burns from the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (DAF) lead the research team that is sequencing the DNA from Brahman sires — some dating as far back as the mid-1950s.

In a similar study, Daniel Janzen, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, and colleagues sequenced mitochondrial DNA from nearly 500 specimens of the tropical skipper butterfly preserved at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. DNA barcoding of the specimens reveal 10 species within the tropical skipper group, a classification that had eluded naturalists because the adult forms of the butterflies are so similar, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

An elaborate sequence that uses Downtown L.A. as a backdrop sees Enos» Alice Vaughan and her requisite crack team of colleagues try to set up their man, Ben (played by Peter Krause), only to have him cleverly avoid them.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).