Jill Banfield, PhD, University of California, Berkeley Integrated "omics" studies of microbial communities Jill Banfield, PhD, University of California, Berkeley Systems Biology the Microbiome | April 15 16, ... By: Institute Systems Biology … Continue reading →

Peer Bork, PhD, Keynote Adress Systematic analysis of human-associated microbes: lessons from a tiny bacterium and a large community Peer Bork, PhD, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (... By: Institute Systems Biology … Continue reading →

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Contact Information Available for logged-in reporters only Newswise The Venus Flytrap is a fascinating plant with two leaf jaws that sense when an insect approaches and quickly snap shut, trapping the insect for a meal. The carnivorous plant is one of natures clearest examples of biology and mechanics working together to sustain life. Four doctoral students at Washington University in St. Louis will have the opportunity to take a closer look at this intersection under a five-year, $921,040 grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering of the National Institutes of Health. Philip V. Bayly, PhD, the Lilyan and E. Lisle Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering and chair of the Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, will lead the grant to train four doctoral students in mechanobiology, a developing field that focuses on how forces and changes in cell or tissue mechanical properties contribute to growth, structure and health. More than 25 faculty members from across the university will serve as mentors to the four students. This training grant is unique because we have pure biologists from the Department of Biology, as well as biologists in the School of Medicine who apply biology to medicine, Bayly says. … Continue reading →