Sentences with phrase «with other biologists»

She'll return in 2017 along with other biologists and veterinary experts from the Center to continue her research.

During my 3 - year fellowship in Cambridge, I worked on a variety of ecological and epidemiological problems, and also continued applying evolutionary game theory to animal behaviour, with Sigal and with other biologists.

Not exact matches

And we must not forget that a quantum - mechanical calculation even on one particular bacterial cell would be incorrect for every other cell, even of the same species — a point clearly made by Elsasser in his conclusions about the heterogeneity of the material with which the biologist has to deal.

Stacey Baker, public engagement program associate at AAAS and a trained biologist, spoke with a teenager who wants to study biology about the many paths open to scientists and the other elements beyond your field of study — such as they type of work environment a candidate might be seeking — to keep in mind when selecting a career.

Although DARPA didn't pay much attention to the life sciences at first, since 1990, when it hired its first biologist, «it made up for lost time, and in June 2014 DARPA put the life sciences on an equal footing with other disciplines by creating the Biology Technologies Office,» Mervis noted in a sidebar.

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.

A growing cadre of do - it - yourself (DIY) biologists have taken to closets, kitchens, basements, and other offbeat lab spaces to tinker with genomes, create synthetic life - forms, or — like Rienhoff — seek out elusive cures.

The other is an academic biologist with an MBA.

But this — and several other studies reported here — reveals how readily humpbacks around the world come up with new hunting strategies, says Alexander Werth, a marine biologist at Hampden - Sydney College in Virginia who was not involved with the work.

Almost 40 percent of self - identifying DIY biologists (most of whom are unaffiliated with a conventional research institutions) work in community labs — more than any other setting, including hackerspaces, professional labs and homes — according to a forthcoming study I coauthored at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.

For example, researchers can now see if body odor reflects other conditions, says Craig Roberts, a biologist at the University of Liverpool in the United Kingdom: «It's important because it might help with noninvasive diagnosis of disease and potentially for biometric technology using genetically unique and distinct odors.»

Axel Meyer, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Konstanz in Germany, says that sharks, fish, and other aquatic creatures have penislike appendages that evolved from finlike structures that had nothing to do with limbs.

Even as scientists in other fields struggle to find jobs, computational biologists are being snapped up as soon as they graduate with lucrative salary offers, says Russ Altman, a professor of bioengineering, genetics, and medicine and director of the biomedical informatics training program at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California.

Seeded with $ 100 million from Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, «the new institute... will embrace big - team science, bringing together cell biologists, mathematicians, computational biologists, and other specialists; and will seek to decipher a world whose complexity is still largely uncharted.»

▪ DNA Agrees With All the Other Science — Darwin Was Right: Molecular biologist Sean Carroll shows how evolution happens, one snippet of DNA at a time

With climate change transforming the Arctic, biologists are scrambling to understand the impact on gray whales and other creatures living in the region

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

Past work by Corrie Moreau, an evolutionary biologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, who was not involved with this study, revealed that one of the supersoldier species is located near the base of the Pheidole family tree, closely related to the ancestral ant, while other supersoldier species were scattered within the tree.

UCLA chemists and molecular biologists have for the first time used a «structure - based» approach to drug design to identify compounds with the potential to delay or treat Alzheimer's disease, and possibly Parkinson's, Lou Gehrig's disease and other degenerative disorders.

Biologist Terry McGlynn at California State University, Dominguez Hills in Carson fears other scientists might use data he posts online and not collaborate with him.

In recent years, biologists have argued that the best way to save species that need large territories, such as the endangered jaguar, is to connect existing parks and other large environmental reserves with protected corridors that would allow the animals to move back and forth.

I went out there with marine biologists from all over the world in a Scripps Oceanographic Institution expedition trying to look at, you know, what would the baseline be for a truly healthy ocean that had not been overfished and overflushed with chemicals and all the other things that we dump into the ocean — and from those examples, I started to get an idea of what the world might look like without us, but then it occurred to me to really understand, I would also have to get a baseline for what was the world like before us.

By pairing a receptor that targets neurons with a molecule that degrades the main component of Alzheimer's plaques, the biologists were able to substantially dissolve these plaques in mice brains and human brain tissue, offering a potential mechanism for treating the debilitating disease, as well as other conditions that involve either the brain or the eyes.

This latest study is one of only a few well - documented examples of what evolutionary biologists call «character displacement,» in which similar species competing with each other evolve differences to take advantage of different ecological niches.

And the trouble with extrapolating so much from mouse studies is that «nobody has actually shown over the long term how long these quote un-quote improvements persist, and we don't know whether it's broadly improving aspects of aging or it's specific to certain tissues,» said Matt Kaeberlein, a biologist who studies aging in dogs and other animal models at the University of Washington.

On the other side of the globe, Peter Moyle, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, has been more concerned with the freshwater fish that make their homes in or migrate to California's rivers and lakes.

Biologist Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard at the Natural History Museum of Denmark at the University of Copenhagen and her team collected seawater containing skin cells — along with cells from urine and feces — naturally shed by the whale sharks and other animals.

Meanwhile, biologists elsewhere were whipping up other types of organoids, starting instead with adult stem cells.

However, new research led by evolutionary biologist Jay Storz of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln has found that whether a given mutation is good or bad is often determined by other mutations associated with it.

Molecular biologist Matt Kaeberlein of the University of Washington in Seattle says the results are in line with work from his lab showing that slight differences in growth conditions, the genetic makeup of the yeast or other factors can change the outcome of the experiment.

Neuroscientist Steven Kushner of Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, together with chemical biologist Mario van der Stelt from nearby Leiden University and colleagues at several other institutes, set out to find out why.

With further work, Culver and other cave biologists determined there existed a «ridge» of subterranean biodiversity that extended from the Spanish - French border through Slovenia and other places in the Balkans.

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«They've reached levels of toolmaking proficiency generally associated with an animal with a big brain, dextrous hands and symbolic language — in other words humans,» says Gavin Hunt, a biologist at the University of Auckland.

Still others, such as conservation biologist Michael Soulé, believe that top - down versus bottom - up, like all dualisms, is false, because the natural world is complex and bottom - up forces (nutrient flow) interact with top - down forces (the effects of predation).

Biologists working with leaf molds and other fungi in the lab had noticed this, and atmospheric chemists had noticed that there seemed to be a lot of potassium floating above the Amazon in the wet season.

The biologist shares the first floor of a schoolhouse - turned - laboratory with other visiting scientists, students and an unwelcome orange tabby cat.

Jeff Smith, a first - year postdoc at OISB who studies cell signaling using proteomics, notes that with no specific categories for systems biology on research - grant applications, he has no choice but to place himself in direct competition with biochemists and biologists in other fields.

Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, who two years ago predicted the collapse of seafood as a food source by 2048, says Costello's work is noteworthy but adds that catch shares will work better when combined with other tools, such as banning fishing in sensitive areas.

«In some cases, species have big morphological and behavioral changes with only a few genetic changes, and in other cases, there is lots of genetic change with few visible results,» said Matthew Hahn, a biologist at Indiana University.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

«Clearly, estrogen regulates TLR8 and other TLRs in ways that change the threshold of an inflammatory response, and female cells are hard wired to be more sensitive to this change,» said Nicholas Young, PhD, a molecular biologist with Ohio State's department of immunology who worked on the study.

The need for biologists with additional qualifications in business administration (whether via MBA or distance learning or other courses) will increase as biotech companies, banks, and consultants look for people who understand both — the technology and the business.

Phillip Clapham, a cetacean biologist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Mammal Laboratory who has worked extensively with Monnett, says that he and others «never had any reason to question his scientific judgment as anything other than excellent.

But the authors suspect that, with a bit more looking, biologists will find similar strategies in other plants.

«We know from animal models that there are critical periods during early development when cells are rapidly dividing and forming the circuitry through which cells will communicate with each other to form various tissues of the body,» said Retha Newbold, a reproductive biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in North Carolina.

What struck Goffredi, a marine biologist at Occidental College, along with the 10 other scientists onboard was how different the life - forms at this site, called the Pescadero Basin, looked from those at a neighboring site.

In some cases, peer reviewers may disagree; in others, our biologists may not agree with the conclusions of individual peer reviewers.

«Sitting in my team now we have physicists, engineers, mathematicians, pharmacologists, biologists and surgeons, and we collaborate with other clinical staff,» says Seifalian.

To test this, Rick Relyea, a biologist at the University of Pittsburg in Pennsylvania, simulated a pond ecosystem by filling 1000 - liter tanks with well water, plankton, various tadpole species, and other organisms at the same densities found in nature.