Founded in 1959, under the auspices of UNESCO and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (previously World Conservation Union), the Charles Darwin Foundation is dedicated to the conservation of the Galapagos ecosystems. The Foundation operates the Charles Darwin Research Station to conduct scientific research and environmental education for conservation. The Station has a team of over two hundred scientists, educators, volunteers, research students and support staff from all over the world. The Foundation Secretary General is located in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, and maintains close contact with the government to promote Galapagos conservation throughout Ecuador.

The overall goal of research at CNMC is to solve the puzzles of disease that affect children, and effect positive outcomes through community health programs, clinical trials, and experimental therapeutics. The research groups at CNMC have increasingly become a focal point for multi-institutional projects in the metropolitan Washington DC area, with many collaborative projects with George Washington University Medical Center, Howard University Medical Center, University of Maryland, and Washington Hospital Center.

CSHL is a research and educational institution. The Laboratory has research programs focusing on cancer, neurobiology, plant genetics, genomics and bioinformatics, and a broad educational mission, including the recently established Watson School of Biological Sciences.

The research interests of the department span many facets of cell and developmental biology. The department has placed particular emphasis on development and developmental neurobiology in areas including development of the enteric nervous system, development and subunit composition of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors, migration of neurons during development of the nervous system, axonal transport, and muscle development. There is a related research program that takes advantage of the development and genetics of the lower eucaryotes Dictyostelium and yeast to ask questions about pattern formation, chemotaxis, organelle inheritance and DNA repair. The department is also home to cell biologists interested in microtubule dynamics, cell motility, cell cycle regulation, organelle movement and intracellular protein sorting.

The new Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Biology (E3B) at Columbia University was established in 2001. In creating E3B, the university recognized that the fields of ecology, evolutionary biology, and environmental biology constitute a distinct subdivision of the biological sciences with its own set of intellectual foci, theoretical foundations, scales of analysis, and methodologies. Undergrad program. M.A. program. Ph.D. program. Certificate program. Student resources. Faculty. Courses.

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Laboratories in the Department are using the full spectrum of contemporary biophysical, molecular biological and cellular techniques to study a diverse array of biochemical systems ranging from integral membrane proteins and proteins involved in signal transduction to catalytic RNA and neuronal signal processing.

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Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) is a distinct forum of Arctic professionals, indigenous peoples representatives, and observer countries and organisations,to discuss and address circumpolar Arctic conservation issues. As one of the Working Groups of theArctic Council,its primary role is to advise the Arctic governments (Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the United States) on conservation matters and sustainable use issues of international significance and common concern.

The Consortium for Conservation Medicine is a unique collaborative institution that strives to understand the link between anthropogenic environmental change, the health of all species, and the conservation ofbiodiversity.

Under the leadership of Dr. Robert R. Recker and Dr. Robert P. Heaney, the Creighton University Osteoporosis Research Center (ORC) continues today a 40-year effort that has created an international center of excellence in bone research.

Since its founding in 1947, Dana-Farber has been committed to providing cancer patients with the best treatment available today while developing tomorrow's cures through cutting-edge research. The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute is to provide expert, compassionate care to children and adults with cancer while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases.

Dental microwear is the study of the microscopic scratches and pits that form on a tooth's surface as the result of its use. Much of the dental microwear research that has been conducted thus far has focused on humans and non-human primates. These can be used as models to reconstruct diets in human ancestors and other fossil primates. Find software, images, texture analysis, data, contacts, links, and references. Hosted by the Department of Antropology at the University of Arkansas.

The teaching and research activities of the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology (MCB) concern the molecular structures and processes of cellular life and their roles in the function, reproduction, and development of living organisms. This agenda covers a broad range of specialized disciplines, such as biochemistry, biophysics, molecular biology, genetics, cell physiology, cell anatomy, immunology, and neurobiology. The types of living organisms from which the departmental faculty draws its working materials are as diverse as its disciplinary specializations, ranging from viruses and microbes through plants, roundworms, annelids, arthropods, and mollusks to fish, amphibia, and mammals. The faculty of the department is organized into five divisions: Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Cell and Developmental Biology, Genetics and Development, Immunology, and Neurobiology.

Pharmacology involves the discovery of new drugs, the investigation of how drugs work and the use of drugs to probe mechanisms of disease. But pharmacology also involves the elucidation and manipulation of macromolecular structures, the analysis of regulatory mechanisms in cell biology and development, and the translation of this information into clinical research. Thus, the science of pharmacology spans the most fundamental aspects of basic research, through transgenic animal models, to clinical investigation. Pharmacology at Penn addresses all of these issues in an exciting, collegial and interactive environment.