Sentences with phrase «university lab teams»

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The school is also set to play host to the Stu Clark Investment Competition in March 2017, with teams of graduate students competing for cash prizes and a spot at the 2016 Global Venture Labs Investment Competition at the University of Texas at Austin.

As part of the deal, Geometric CEO and founder Gary Marcus, a neural science professor at New York University and leading figure in A.I., became director of the A.I. Labs team at Uber based in San Francisco.

Founded in 2009, Sparq is a spin - out of power electronics research performed at Queen's University by Dr. Praveen Jain, Canada Research Chair in Power Electronics, and his team at ePower Labs, and supported by PARTEQ Innovations.

A few weeks after my trip to Queens, I visited the Stress Neurobiology and Prevention lab at the University of Oregon in Eugene, where a team of researchers led by Phil Fisher, a psychologist, has developed a series of interventions with parents that in many ways parallel the ABC program, though with one major difference: They use digital video as a teaching tool to help steer parents away from behaviors that cause fear and stress in children and toward patterns that promote attachment and self - regulation.

The document was created by a team from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning's Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab, led by Dr. Samina Raja.

The year was 2000, and he was traveling from his lab at the University of Memphis to Nicaragua, to aid a team of 15 American clinicians sponsored by the International Children's Heart Foundation.

Clint Perry at Queen Mary University of London and his team trained 24 bumblebees to associate two locations in the lab, each of a particular colour, with sugar water or plain water.

An international team of experts, led by Joanna Morgan of Imperial College London (below, left) and Sean Gulick of the University of Texas, examined those cores in onboard labs.

At Seattle University in Washington, Kemsley wrote, chemistry students are divided into «safety teams» that take turns doing hazard assessments of assigned procedures, making safety inspections before lab sessions begin, and monitoring their fellow students» safety practices during the work and cleanup.

«The researchers have taken a technique that most in the field thought would be impossible for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys from scratch in the lab.

A team of researchers led by Jeff Tza - Huei Wang, PhD, from the Johns Hopkins University BioMEMS Lab, Baltimore, Maryland have developed the first low - cost NAAT platform that can diagnose chlamydia at the point - of - care and that integrates sample preparation, DNA amplification, and data processing all in one coffee mug - sized instrument.

Northwestern's TTO team gave him advice, guidance, access to resources, and a sweetheart deal — they arranged for him to do a postdoc in which he would spend half his time in the lab to continue his research and half his time at the university's incubator to bring his startup plans to fruition.

A team led by animal scientists Steven Stice of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. and James Robl, an animal scientist at the University of Massachusetts, both in Amherst, added foreign DNA to lab - grown cow fetal cells.

Through a combination of high - resolution cryo - electron microscopy (cryo - EM) and a unique methodology for image analysis, a team of researchers with Berkeley Lab and the University of California (UC) Berkeley has produced an atomic view of microtubules that enabled them to identify the crucial role played by a family of end - binding (EB) proteins in regulating microtubule dynamic instability.

At last week's meeting of the Entertainment Software and Cognitive Neurotherapeutics Society in San Francisco, Polat's team described tests of the software that Dennis Levi ran in his lab at the University of California, Berkeley.

To make this major upgrade a reality, SLAC has teamed up with four other national labs — Argonne, Berkeley Lab, Fermilab and Jefferson Lab — and Cornell University, with each partner making key contributions to project planning as well as to component design, acquisition and construction.

The method was developed at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, by a team of researchers from the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Berkeley Lab, Stanford University, and other institutions.

The mtDNA sequence the researchers claimed to have obtained from the fossil is quite common in Europe today, making it difficult to rule out the possibility that someone not on the team touched the sample or the lab equipment used in the analysis, says evolutionary geneticist and ancient DNA expert Hendrik Poinar of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

Another team that received funding was the Visual Learning Lab at the University of Nottingham in central England, which promotes the expression of ideas through graphics and video.

«The reward system in the typical government or university lab is far too focused on the individual, not the team,» Wong said.

A university's labs can number in hundreds or even thousands, each with a team ranging from a handful to scores of members, he notes.

An interdisciplinary team with researchers from fields of psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former graduate student in Hoy's lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral researcher in Hoy's lab.

The team is «working to educate people about the fact that the university is hiding behind the state budget crisis to pretend that there's no money,» he adds, citing a December 2009 informational picket on all 10 UC campuses staged in collaboration with UPTE - CWA 9119, the union that represents lab technicians and other technical employees and faces similar issues in its own contract negations.

Reich and lab members, Swapan Mallick and Nick Patterson, teamed up with previous laboratory member Sriram Sankararaman, now an Assistant Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, on the project, which found evidence that both Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry has been lost from the X chromosome, as well as genes expressed in the male testes.

«This research illustrates a deep connection between two seemingly unrelated fields, and required contributions from an interdisciplinary team of condensed matter and nuclear physicists,» said James Misewich, the Associate Laboratory Director for Energy Science at Brookhaven Lab and a professor of physics at Stony Brook University, who played the central role of introducing the members of this research team to one another.

The team of scientists from UCL, Oxford University and the University of Copenhagen showed that certain chemicals could halve pericyte death from simulated stroke in the lab, and hope to develop these into drugs to treat stroke victims.

A handful of other teams are taking an immersive, multivariable approach to studying human responses to indoor conditions, using flexible facilities — from the Total Indoor Environmental Quality Lab at Syracuse University in New York, to the SenseLab at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, which should open in December.

The team, headed by biologist Miodrag Stojkovic, who has labs at the Principe Felipe Research Centre in Valencia, Spain, and at a company called Sintocell in Serbia, obtained 161 embryos that had been donated for research at the University of Newcastle in the U.K. Of these, thirteen had stopped developing at 6 to 7 days after fertilization, when they were at the 16 - 24 cell stage, and 119 had stopped developing a few days after fertilization.

«We teamed with a University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute inventor, who's developing a lab - on - a-chip with a unique polymer,» explains Robinson.

Last May in Nature Neuroscience, his lab and a team at Columbia University reported that embryonic stem cells could be used to shed light on the origins of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the progressive neurodegenerative disease in which motor neurons in the brain die.

A Johns Hopkins University team this week reported inserting a disrupted human gene, the schizophrenia risk factor DISC1, into lab mice, causing them to exhibit the brain asymmetry characteristic of schizophrenia as well as agitation in open spaces and trouble finding hidden food — traits reminiscent of the restlessness, impaired sense of smell and depressionlike symptoms schizophrenics suffer, Reuters reports.

The research team, including members of Prof. Keinan's lab, Prof. Eitan Friedman of TAU's Sackler School of Medicine, and Prof. Gil Azmon and colleagues at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the University of Haifa, based their study on data from the Jewish HapMap project, an international effort led by Prof. Harry Ostrer of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, to determine the genetic history of worldwide Jewish diasporas.

The team will also take the data back to the Natural Hazards Engineering Research Infrastructure labs at the University of Florida to study building materials and identify those most resistant to extreme winds.

With a little help from a team of engineers at Drexel University, these scientists could soon be donning 3 - D glasses in a home - theater - like lab to take their own fantastic voyage into the petri dish.

«Some scientists did not think silicene could exist,» says physicist Guy Le Lay of the University of Provence, in Marseille, France, who led one of two teams that forged the material in the lab.

The Sahay lab team and collaborators, including researchers from the OHSU School of Medicine and the University of California San Diego, generated five different CSPNs, conjugating Tat peptides to a (RADA) 2 linker and adding different numbers of phenylalanine residues.

The study team also includes lead author Rupert Seidl of the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna (who spent his sabbatical at UW - Madison in 2015) and Daniel Donato at the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a former postdoctoral researcher in Turner's lab.

Lab safety is now a heightened concern in the contract negotiations currently under way between the University of California and the new union representing the postdocs on its 10 campuses, including UCLA, says UC Berkeley postdoc Matthew «Oki» O'Connor, a member of the union negotiation team.

A team at Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick, has managed to trigger clathrin - mediated endocytosis in the lab.

However, a 2012 lab study conducted at Oklahoma State University by Belden's collaborator Scott McMurry did not find damage to the growth and development of tadpoles at the levels that Kuivila's research team found in waterways.

Working in collaboration with Russ Bowers» lab at the University of Florida, Shimizu and her team recently published a paper in ACS Nano that demonstrated the unique gas - flow properties of the molecular tubes.

«We're worried they're going to see it more frequently,» said Emily Carrington, Newcomb's graduate adviser and leader of the University of Washington team that published the earlier lab results.

The team led by John Hogenesch, PhD, a professor of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics in the Perelman School of Medicine at University of Pennsylvania and Jason DeBruyne, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Hogenesch lab and now an assistant professor at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, applied their new method to identifying other clock partners that target a multipurpose cell nucleus receptor for disposal.

An international team, formed by scientists at the Italian Institute of Technology (Italy), the University Jaume I (Spain), the IBM research lab Zurich (Switzerland) and the University of Milano - Bicocca (Italy) demonstrated a radically new approach to manipulate the light emission of quantum dots.

The team of scientists from Brookhaven Lab, Stony Brook University, and the National University of San Luis in Argentina synthesized 2D aluminosilicate (composed of aluminum, silicon, and oxygen) films on top of a ruthenium metal surface.

The article describes the work of Poon's interdisciplinary research team, which included John Ho and Alexander Yeh, electrical engineering graduate students in Poon's lab; Yuji Tanabe, a visiting scholar; and Ramin Beygui, associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University Medical Center.

A team of researchers around PD Dr. Hubert Dinse of the NeuralPlasticity Lab at the Institute for Neuroinformatics, Prof. Dr. Martin Tegenthoff, Director of the Neurological Clinic, and Prof. Dr. Christoph Maier, senior physician of the Department for Pain Medicine, both at the Bergmannsheil University Clinic, have now investigated the effectiveness of this approach in pain patients.

That work triggered a close race between the Cambridge University group and a rival team at MIT in deciphering tRNA's 3D structure at atomic resolution with x-ray crystallography, with the two labs publishing results within 2 weeks of each other.

A simple lab - based skin test which eliminates the risk of adverse reactions to new drugs, cosmetics and household chemicals has been developed by a Newcastle University team.

Chu said he feels «personally» the anguish of the DUSEL team, led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the DOE lab that Chu directed before coming to DOE in January 2009.