Sentences with phrase «theoretical biologist»

A theoretical biologist is a scientist who studies and analyzes biological concepts and processes using mathematical models and simulations instead of conducting experiments in a lab. They use theoretical frameworks to understand biological systems and make predictions about how they work. Full definition
There is now a heated debate among theoretical biologists concerning whether or not evolution is predictable.
Given this, it is remarkable that the climate stability phenomena receive so little attention within the modern scientific community, theoretical biologists included.
It was also a great example of public - good science, said Professor Belinda Medlyn, theoretical biologist at Western Sydney University and co-author of the study.
The accompanying vortices confirmed that this seemingly awkward motion in fact produces lift, says theoretical biologist Anders Hedenström of Sweden's Lund University, first author of a report published online today in Science.
«This is a really, really large system — approximately a million and a half atoms,» said Laboratory theoretical biologist Cesar A. López.
He says he was inspired by the example of a colleague, computer scientist - turned - theoretical biologist Aubrey de Grey (see «Wake - Up Call»), who published his first gerontology paper on mitochondrial DNA mutations despite a lack of experimental experience in that area.
Theoretical biologists demonstrate how an aggressive personality might make evolutionary sense
Still, theoretical biologist David Penny of Massey University in New Zealand agrees that Herron's team used state - of - the - art estimation methods.
The amino acid interactions that stabilize the complex between MexA and OprM were also independently cross-validated using a computational technique called sequence covariation analysis by Laboratory theoretical biologist Timothy Travers.
«I can appreciate these results because they illustrate and reinforce, using comparisons of closely related species, something that has been doubted by some evolutionary biologists in the past, namely the fact that plasticity itself can evolve,» says Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute theoretical biologist Mary Jane West - Eberhard, who was not involved in the study.
Theoretical biologist Stuart Kauffman has the advantage of never having been indoctrinated in the physicist's way of looking at the world.
«It's an intriguing finding,» says theoretical biologist Franjo Weissing of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands.
Kauffman, a biochemist and theoretical biologist at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, is among the small coterie of thinkers who have nurtured the new science of complexity.
Bertalanffy1 himself was a theoretical biologist who employed holistic concepts in the study of organisms in a time when the prevailing biological paradigm was exclusively analytical and reductionistic.
It's just that I want them to be house - broken before I ask them to do serious collaborative work with our flying - circus of mathematicians, theoretical biologists, bioinformaticians and computer scientists who come from all over the world with only talent in common.
The notion of such a struggle was first suggested by his close friend Robert Trivers, a theoretical biologist at Rutgers who had observed an indirect form of sibling rivalry in which offspring each try to get more resources than their parents can allocate to them.
A theoretical biologist at Princeton University, she wanted to understand how nature creates patterns on different spatial scales — from tigers» stripes to landscape - level phenomena such as fairy circles.
The peduncle was apparently «refined during evolution and relocated more to the middle of the body,» says Hans Meinhardt, a theoretical biologist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany.
Sarah Otto, a theoretical biologist at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
STUART A. KAUFFMAN is a theoretical biologist who has pioneered the application of complexity theory to living systems.
This year Eva Jablonka, a theoretical biologist at Tel Aviv University, published a compendium of more than 100 hereditary changes that are not carried in the DNA sequence.
I am a theoretical biologist working on social evolution at all levels of biological and social organization, from cells to animal and human societies and ecosystems.
«George Sugihara, a theoretical biologist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography,» uses a new method to deal with chaos.
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