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UMass Medical School - Marian Walhout featured in Cell
Marian Walhout featured in Cell
‘More is different’ in systems biology, says Dr. Walhout
Jim Fessenden
UMass Medical School Communications
A leader in the field of systems biology, Marian Albertha J. Walhout, PhD, associate professor of molecular medicine, was featured this month in a special issue of Cellexploring the future of this increasingly important field. Systems biology focuses on how relatively simple cellular and molecular building
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UMass Medical School researcher Marian Walhout received a $4.1 million Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award to continue study of metabolism and gene expression.
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UMass Chan researcher Marian Walhout, PhD, along with collaborators at Northwestern and Cornell, have developed an animal model system to interrogate individual differences in metabolism.
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Marian Walhout, PhD, and Lutfu Safak Yilmaz, PhD, present the first genome-scale reconstruction of the C. elegans metabolic network.
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The Program in Systems Biology has been elevated to full department status, with Marian Walhout, PhD, serving as the founding chair of the Department of Systems Biology.
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edition of Nature Methods describe innovative techniques for identifying the complex interactions among genes, proteins and transcription factors that comprise gene regulatory networks in worms, plants, humans and flies.
Marian Walhout, systems biology, enhanced yeast
Marian Walhout, PhD A major challenge in the field of systems biology involves understanding the complex and interconnected ways that gene regulatory networks drive development, physiology and pathology. A series of papers in the latest
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produce significant changes in gene expression that could negatively impact physiology and health.
gene expression and physiology, Marian Walhout
Boston Globe covers UMMS diet research A.J. Marian Walhout’s new research on how diet influences gene expression and physiology is featured in Boston Globe reporter Carolyn Johnson’s “Science in Mind” blog. Dr. Walhout tells the Globe that the work, outlined in two papers published in Cell, shows that even the smallest portions of food affect an individual
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and efficiently describe genomic variations underlying complex, multi-gene diseases.
Scientists in the lab of Marian Walhout, PhD, have applied a powerful tool in a new way to characterize genetic variants associated with human disease that will allow researchers to more easily and efficiently describe genomic variations underlying complex, multi-gene diseases.
Marian Walhout, PhD, professor of molecular medicine and co-director of the Program in Systems Biology Scientists at UMass Medical School
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model system that allows researchers to examine how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology in the model organism C. elegans, in a study appearing in the journal Cell.
Vitamin B12, Gene expression, A.J. Marian Walhout
A.J. Marian Walhout, PhD Everyday our cells take in nutrients from food and convert them into the building blocks that make life possible. However, it has been challenging to pinpoint exactly how a single nutrient or vitamin changes gene expression and physiology
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Program in Systems Biology, Albert Sherman Center, Job Dekker, Marian Walhout, 5th discipline of biology
The recently formed Program in Systems Biology is now at home in the new, state-of-the art Albert Sherman Center, where it exemplifies the interdisciplinary approach to answering deep, complex questions about science for which the Sherman Center was designed. “Teamwork is incredibly important in systems biology,” said Marian Walhout, PhD, co-director of systems biology and professor of molecular medicine
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