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Naming evolution's winners and losers

... assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and lead author of the research. The study, ... laboratory; Chad Brock, a graduate student of biology at Washington State University; Hugo Alamillo, a graduate student of biology at Washington State University; Alex Dornburg, a ...

Parasitic worms make sex worthwhile

... of Technology biologists in this week's Current biology . The scientists' report represents direct ... an incredibly small scale," said Kayla King, IU biology Ph.D. student and lead author of the paper. "The ... and are just a few meters away." The Current biology report also supports the "Geographic Mosaic ...

SRI announces selection by the National Cancer Institute as a Chemical Biology Consortium center

... for a leading role in the newly-formed "Chemical biology Consortium" (CBC), a collaborative drug discovery ... and development centers: Comprehensive Chemical biology Screening, Chemical Diversity, and Specialized ... will be a key component of the NCI Chemical biology Consortium program. "SRI is proud to be ...

IOS Press announces launch of Journal of Berry Research

... della Marche, Department of Biochemistry, biology & Genetics, Ancona, Italy, "The main objective of ... Sciences Department, Plant Molecular and Cellular biology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. ... plant physiology, biochemistry and molecular biology and culture management; and health for consumers ...

Reviews of microbial gene language published in special issue of Trends in Microbiology

... gene function and larger-scale, systems biology efforts to provide a global picture of ... that has long been the workhorse of the molecular biology laboratory. Gene Ontology terms are particularly ... into their hosts to facilitate colonization. The biology behind this invasion of the host cell is rich and ...

Systems biology recommended as a clinical approach to cancer

... of Medicine are advocating the use of systems biology as an innovative clinical approach to cancer. ... the team highlights the usefulness of a systems biology approach in developing a comprehensive view of ... progression, diagnosis, and treatment. Systems biology brings together mathematical modeling, ...

Hormone clue to root growth

... led by the Centre for Plant Integrative biology at The University of Nottingham, has shed light ... thaliana. Now a paper appearing in Current biology describes for first time how this hormone also ... Belgium and Sweden. Professor Malcolm Bennett, biology Director for the Centre for Plant ...

July 9-10 symposium on synthetic biology

... The emerging field of synthetic biology uses engineering techniques to manipulate ... and 10 will explore the implications of synthetic biology for policymakers, researchers, industry, and the ... 9:45 a.m. -- Panel Discussion: Synthetic biology Overview 11:15 a.m. -- Panel Discussion: ...

New e-science service could accelerate cancer research

... of Manchester and the European Molecular biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute ... Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular biology and the 8th European Conference on Computational biology conference (ISMB-ECCB 2009) in Stockholm. This ...

7th annual [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference 'Molecular Evolution' June 18-19, 2009

... of Basel's 7th annual [BC]2 Basel Computational biology Conference "Molecular Evolution", opened today at ... (2000) and the Balzan Prize for Developmental biology (2002). He and his group also discovered the ... of Health (NIH) and is active in Computational biology and Genomics at NCBI since 1991. He is also ...

American Journal of Botany named a top 10 most influential journal of the century

... journals of the past 100 years in the field of biology and medicine. The SLA announced the results on ... to determine the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine over the 100 years of the ... of the AJB as one among the top 10 journals in biology and medicine testifies to their hard work and ...

Scientists sequence genome of the N2-fixing, soil-living bacterium Azotobacter vinelandii

... to a more complete understanding of the biology of this versatile, soil-living bacterium. The ... According to Ray Dixon, project lead in Molecular biology at the John Innes Centre in the United Kingdom, ... in Seattle Pacific University's Department of biology and the University of Washington's Department of ...

Rosenstiel students come out on top

... KEY, Fla. Four University of Miami (UM) Marine biology and Fisheries students have received recognition ... an assistant professor in the Division of Marine biology and Fisheries at UM's Rosenstiel School of Marine ... in 2007 from Duke University with a degree in biology and Environmental Science. Prior to joining ...

Discovery of the cell's water gate may lead to new cancer drugs

... which will be published in the journal PLoS biology , raises hopes of developing a drug that inhibits ... Lindkvist at the Department of Cell and Molecular biology and Richard Neutze at the Department of ... results will be published in the journal PLoS biology . Highest resolution The structure has ...

American Society for Microbiology honors Jo Handelsman

... Teaching (WPST) to enhance undergraduate biology education by training a new generation of ... was developed to provide a place to learn about biology instruction in the context of the research ... Handelsman earned her Ph.D. in Molecular biology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where ...

Two Central High (Philadelphia) grads honored by AIBS

... is currently Professor of Genome Sciences and biology at the University of Washington. After ... Gross is Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary biology and Mathematics at The University of Tennessee, ... and educators in envisioning the future of biology education. Gross currently serves on the AIBS ...

Swiss Initiative in Systems Biology launches new projects

... Million Francs budget for investment in Systems biology research from 2008-2011. Members of the research ... Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). Systems biology aims to explain biological regulation at a ... models is equally important. This allows biology and medicine to become a predictive quantitative ...

Diuscovery in amber reveals ancient biology of termites

... and microorganism, and also shows the unusual biology that helped make this one of the most successful, ... become amber, providing an opportunity for the biology of this ancient insect to be revealed in a way ... and allows researchers to characterize the biology of ecosystems that existed millions of years ago. ...

Key protein regulating inflammation may prove relevant to controlling sepsis

... at Singapore's Institute of Molecular and Cell biology (IMCB), under the Agency for Science, Technology ... published in the May 2009 issue of Nature Cell biology (NCB), the IMCB scientists described their ... Shen Han-Ming, Ph.D., an expert in cancer cell biology at the National University of Singapore's Yong ...

'Annals of the ESA' selected as one of 100 most influential journals

... to identify the 100 most influential journals of biology and medicine over the last 100 years listed ... among the most influential scientific journals in biology and medicine as determined by the SLA. Annals ... and many possess additional credentials in biology or one of the medical or allied health sciences. ...

U of Minnesota study finds high school teachers influence student views of evolution & creationism

... shaped by what they learned in their high school biology classes, according to a University of Minnesota ... surveyed 1,000 students taking introductory biology classes at the University of Minnesota to learn how biology majors view evolution compared to non-majors. ...

Synthetic chemical offers solution for crops facing drought

... Cutler , an assistant professor of plant cell biology in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences ... , a small flowering plant used widely in plant biology laboratories as a model organism. His lab then ... the director of UCR's Center for Plant Cell biology , of which Cutler is a member. "I believe this ...

International team finds key gene that allows plants to survive drought

... Peter McCourt, a professor of cell and systems biology at the University of Toronto. "If we can control ... highly controversial topic in the field of plant biology that has involved retractions of scientific ... who is now an assistant professor of plant cell biology in the Department of Botany and Plant Sciences at ...

Just in time for spring: Scientists find the cellular on and off switch for allergies and asthma

... the May 2009 issue of the Journal of Leukocyte biology ( http://www.jleukbio.org ) shows how a team of ... symptoms," said John Ryan, Ph.D., Professor of biology at Virginia Commonwealth University, and a senior ... Ph.D., Deputy Editor of the Journal of Leukocyte biology , "The studies by Ryan and colleagues are an ...

DOE makes largest Danforth Campus research award in history

... Ph.D., the Markey Distinguished Professor of biology and of chemistry in Arts & Sciences, will be ... involving leading scholar-scientists from biology and chemistry in Arts & Sciences, as well as ... William and Irene Koechig Freiberg Professor of biology and director of I-CARES. ''We are delighted ...

MBL director and CEO and cell biology pioneer Gary Borisy elected to National Academy of Sciences

... Gary's very substantial contributions to cell biology as well as his leadership in the basic and ... Leslie B. Arey Professor of Cell and Molecular biology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of ... ranks to Chairman of the Laboratory of Molecular biology and Perlman-Bascom Professor of Life Sciences, ...

Toward a systems biology map of iron metabolism

... the first steps toward constructing a systems biology map of iron metabolism. The team has put together ... set out to provide researchers with a systems biology map of iron metabolism that would allow ... under different conditions. The systems biology map was subsequently used to construct iron ...

Findings uncover new details about mysterious virus

... will appear online April 28 in the journal PLoS biology , published by the Public Library of Science, a ... Yurii G. Kuznetsov in the Department of Molecular biology and Biochemistry at UC Irvine; Sun; postdoctoral ... Alexander McPherson, a professor of molecular biology and biochemistry at UC Irvine; and Rossmann. ...

A genomic CluE for cloud computing

... the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational biology at the University of Maryland. He and colleague ... needed. Bioinformatics and Computational biology at Maryland Pop is a researcher in the ... Center for Bioinformatics and Computational biology (CBCB), a multidisciplinary center dedicated to ...

Using combinatorial libraries to engineer genetic circuits advances synthetic biology

... display desired behaviors known as synthetic biology -- , has led to new opportunities for ... with this approach will help accelerate synthetic biology by yielding many more components for the ... is increasingly becoming desirable as synthetic biology enters its second decade." ...

Remembrance of things past influences how female field crickets select mates

... online issue of the Royal Society journal biology Letters . "Most people would never have ... in the lab of Marlene Zuk , a professor of biology at UCR. "The vast majority of studies of insect ... Bailey, who joined UCR's Department of biology in January 2006, became interested in ...

FANTOM findings boost for biologists

... Central's open access journals, including Genome biology and BMC Bioinformatics , provide further ... are controlled in mammals. In one Genome biology article, researchers have created a novel ... data are detailed in a new article from Genome biology , and are also available as an integrated web ...

2009 ASPB Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship award announcement

... students with meaningful research in plant biology early in their college careers. Ideally, students ... provide evidence of a strong commitment to plant biology also are considered. SURF students must work with ... SURF research and present their results at Plant biology July 31-August 4, 2010 in Montral, Canada. ...

Open access research celebrated

... journals in the last year. The Medicine and biology Prizes, sponsored by Microsoft Research, were won by the following research articles: biology Award Basil Honegger, University of Zrich ... F, Brogiolo W, Hafen E, Stocker H Journal of biology 2008, 7:10 (15 April 2008) ...

Small RNAs can play critical roles in male infertility/contraception

... in the Department of Physiology and Cell biology have discovered insight into the reproductive ... and associate professor of physiology and cell biology at the School of Medicine. Working ... with Dr. John McCarrey, professor of molecular biology and ...

3 prominent Cell Press journals named among the 100 most influential journals in past 100 years

... its flagship journal, Cell , as well as Current biology and The American Journal of Human Genetics , ... Library Association's (SLA) Top 100 Journals in biology and Medicine of the past century. The Top 100 ... (DBIO) on the most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last century. The "Journal ...

Three prominent Cell Press journals named among the 100 most influential journals in past 100 years

... its flagship journal, Cell , as well as Current biology and The American Journal of Human Genetics , ... Library Association's (SLA) Top 100 Journals in biology and Medicine of the past century. The Top 100 ... (DBIO) on the most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last century. The "Journal ...

University of Michigan installs second Genomatix Genome Analyzer

... Core of the Center for Computational Medicine and biology at the University of Michigan installed a ... to a molecular level understanding of the biology being studied. "We are very pleased to add ... Core of the Center for Computational Medicine and biology at the University of Michigan. "We are constantly ...

2009 AIBS Media Award

... of Award AIBS encourages communication of biology to the general public and aims to foster a better ... Dr. Susan Haseltine is the Associate Director for biology at the US Geological Survey (USGS). She began her ... for 15 years. He has earned degrees in both biology and journalism and has written articles for The ...

Scripps scientists help decode mysterious green glow of the sea

... of the current issue of the journal Invertebrate biology , provides insights into the function of fireworm ... "This is another step toward understanding the biology of the bioluminescence in fireworms, and it also ... light," said Deheyn, a scientist in the Marine biology Research Division at Scripps. "If we understand ...