Sentences with phrase «zoology at»

«They eat smaller eggs, and they will eat newly hatched chicks,» said Paul Collins, curator of vertebrate zoology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, who has studied the rats.

Elizabeth R. Maupin, of Moore, Oklahoma, studied zoology at the University of Oklahoma.

«The relative lack of understanding around how cartilage was directed presented an unfortunate knowledge gap because there are many painful, debilitating diseases that affect joints — like osteoarthritis — and because we also often injure our joints, which leads to them losing this protective cartilage cover,» co-author Paula Murphy, professor in zoology at Trinity College Dublin, said in the release.

Herbert L. Eastlick, professor emeritus of zoology at Washington State University, died June 20 at Pullman, from complications of Alzheimer's disease.

Known only through isolated teeth, haramiyids were largely mysterious until the discovery of the remarkably well - preserved jaw of Haramiyavia — with intact molars, nearly complete mandibles and postcranial skeletal bones — in Greenland in 1995 by a team including Shubin, Stephen Gatesy, professor of biology at Brown University, and the late Farish Jenkins, former professor of zoology at Harvard University.

In addition to Newman, Mathews and myself, our panel finally included Kirtley Mather, professor of geology at Harvard; Jacob G. Lipman, director of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station at Rutgers University; W. C. Curtis, professor of zoology at the University of Missouri; Wilbur Nelson, state geologist of Tennessee; Maynard Metcalf, professor of zoology at Johns Hopkins University; Charles Judd, head of the University of Chicago School of Education; and Rabbi Herman Rosenwasser of San Francisco, a noted Hebrew scholar.

«Defining or identifying insect species can be extremely difficult if we are limited to using one or a few poorly known characteristics,» said co-author Dr. Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University.

David MacDonald of the department of zoology at the University of Oxford has found that urban foxes are extremely sociable.

There the Swiss biologist Louis Agassiz, who was just beginning his career and later became a professor of zoology at Harvard University, supervised a technical illustrator in drawing the complete skeleton in great detail.

Not that deep and not that many of them,» says Janet Voight, associate curator of zoology at the Field Museum and an author of a new study on the octopuses published in Deep Sea Research Part I.

Xin Lu is a professor of zoology at Wuhan University in China and the co-director of the Wuhan University - Tibet University Field Research Station for Tibetan Wildlife.

Dr. Long completed his undergraduate degree in zoology at University of Maryland, followed by a Ph.D. in biology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

«Museum collections hold hidden treasures of biodiversity,» said co-author Dr. Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and adjunct assistant professor at Case Western Reserve University.

Dr. Gavin Svenson, curator of invertebrate zoology at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, described the new species and published a revision of the genus Liturgusa in the open access journal ZooKeys.

Lipsitch has a surprising background for a scientist at the center of a virology debate: He majored in philosophy at Yale University and earned a Ph.D. in zoology at the University of Oxford.

Jane Lubchenco, a professor of zoology at Oregon State University in Corvallis and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, agrees that a split position does not result in a 20 - hour workweek.

As a curator of the department of zoology at the Field Museum in Chicago for 17 years, he concentrated on tracing South American specimens to a time when dinosaurs roamed Earth.

Apart from the name, the entry does not mention that he became professor of zoology at Oxford in 1962 and his chief contribution was in muscle biophysics — only his earlier work on insect flight is cited.

The research was conducted by Ray Grizzle, research professor of zoology at the UNH School of Marine Science and Ocean Engineering; Krystin Ward, research assistant at the UNH Jackson Estuarine Laboratory; Chris Peter, research associate at the UNH Jackson Estuarine Laboratory; and Mark Cantwell, David Katz, and Julia Sullivan with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development.

He was the youngest person ever awarded a titular professorship of zoology at Oxford, and at 38 he is still half the age of the grand old men who dominate paleontology.

Although many of the effects are well known, the committee was surprised in a few instances, says chair Gordon Orians, a professor emeritus of zoology at the University of Washington, Seattle.

«Unfortunately, things were not as well documented in those days,» said Ted Daeschler, associate curator of vertebrate zoology at the Academy.

«This really suggests that the fungus is driving a lot of the declines in this place,» said Alessandro Catenazzi, assistant professor of zoology at Southern Illinois University and the lead author of the study.

Richard Prum is a professor of ornithology, ecology and evolutionary biology and head curator of vertebrate zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.

After majoring in zoology at Duke University, Greg earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience at Stanford University before realizing he couldn't spend the rest of his life in a lab.

I was 12 when I decided I wanted to work for the BBC (rather than being a long - distance lorry driver, my previous ambition), and after a degree in zoology at Bristol University and a librarianship course, I wheedled my way in.

For example, upon my arrival in Canada in 1969 (after completing a master's degree in zoology at the University of Kansas), I took two positions simultaneously - one as a part - time teaching assistant in the zoology department at the University of Toronto, the other as part - time editorial assistant for a professor who was the editor of an academic journal.

We were surprised that no one had directly addressed the idea that the underlying parts of the brain — the forebrain and midbrain — are correlated or somehow developmentally related to the overlying frontal and parietal bones,» said co-senior author Bhart - Anjan Singh Bhullar, an assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Yale University and assistant curator of vertebrate paleontology and vertebrate zoology at the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History.

Professor Sir John Krebs, professor of zoology at Oxford University, says: «There is overwhelming evidence that homeopathic medicine is not effective.

«Our new findings show that in the absence of embryonic movement the cells that should form articular cartilage receive incorrect molecular signals, where one type of signal is lost while another inappropriate signal is activated in its place,» Paula Murphy, a professor of zoology at Trinity College Dublin who co-led the study, says.

I remember thinking at this point that I'd love to be a professional jewellery designer, but instead I followed my love for nature and studied zoology at University.

Paula Murphy, a professor of zoology at Trinity College Dublin, co-led the study groundbreaking study.

Everhard Johannes Slijper (1907 — 1968) was professor of general zoology at Amsterdam University, Netherlands.

Not exact matches

Dr. Joseph Needham and Dr. W.H. Thorpe, Cambridge authorities on biochemistry and zoology; Dr. A.R. Peacocke, biologist in Cambridge; Professor L.C. Birch, Australian expert on evolutionary changes in the realm of living matter; and Ian Barbour, American physicist, whose special interest has lately been turned toward the ecological problem — these are but a few of the many who have publicly avowed their acceptance of a process way of looking at humankind and the world.

As I got older I never saw art as a career choice and because I was obsessed with animals I went into the sciences, studying zoology and marine biology at university.

Louise Bishop, youth services manager at the Southeast Regional Library in Garner, says families can explore books with themes ranging from art to zoology.

Petersen, 37, a biology and zoology professor for 10 years at the Glen Ellyn community college, analyzes water quality in the streams of Du Page County.

The zoology program is one of 13 electives offered to students at the middle school, which has been forced to share its building with a Success Academy Charter School.

Part of the reason it took longer to recognize the impact of CO2 is because adult fish tend to be more capable of handling higher levels of acidity, said Colin Brauner, a zoology professor at UBC and co-author of the study.

Bartke's scientific inclinations led him to enroll in 1956 at Krakow's Jagiellonian University — where Nicolaus Copernicus studied — and undertake a 5 - year program that gave him the equivalent of a master's degree in zoology.

Agustín Fuentes, trained in zoology and anthropology, is a professor and chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Notre Dame.

Biologist Elizabeth Davidson and colleagues at Arizona State University in Tempe asked students in seven introductory biology and zoology courses whether they manipulated lab data to obtain desired results.

The impact of grizzlies was growing, but their numbers weren't rising enough to explain the number of calf kills, so Middleton turned to Jennifer Fortin, then a zoology Ph.D. student researching bear nutrition at Washington State University.

I graduated from Kyoto University in Kyoto, Japan, in 1991 with a degree in zoology and continued my studies at Kyoto University in cell biology.

«These little guys changed from a shy creature that actively avoided making contact with other grasshoppers [into a creature] actively seeking out other insects and joining a gang,» says study co-author Malcolm Burrows, a zoology professor at Cambridge University in England.

Axel Meyer is a professor of zoology and evolutionary biology at the University of Konstanz in Germany.

What came to be known as the green world hypothesis was first articulated on that bright spring day in Smith's zoology class, and it fueled the fires of enthusiasm in the graduate students at the University of Michigan and rocked science.

She conducted the study with Kimberly Lackey, Ph.D. candidate zoology, Laboratory Technician Janae Carrothers and colleagues at the nearby University of Idaho.

While Eileen was deteriorating, Malaspina earned a master's in zoology, took a job at a drug company, and drifted into research on substances that could alter brain chemistry.