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POSTDOCTORAL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A grant that funds postdoctoral study or research
Synonyms:
post doc; postdoc; postdoctoral
Classified under:
Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession
Hypernyms ("postdoctoral" is a kind of...):
grant-in-aid (a grant to a person or school for some educational project)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to study or research that is done after work for the doctoral degree has been completed
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
postdoc (a scholar or researcher who is involved in academic study beyond the level of a doctoral degree)
Context examples:
This new understanding of placental development and function could contribute to better management of human pregnancies, and development of targeted interventions to improve the longer-term health of children born to older mothers, said Dr Tina Napso, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge and first author of the study.
(Placenta changes could mean male offspring of older mums more likely to develop heart problems in later life, University of Cambridge)
National Research Service Award (NRSA) institutional training grants (T32) enable eligible institutions to develop or enhance predoctoral and postdoctoral research training opportunities for individuals, selected by the institution, who are training for careers in specified shortage areas of biomedical and behavioral research.
(Institutional National Research Service Award, NCI Thesaurus)
Dr Luigi Aloia, first author of the paper and postdoctoral researcher at the Gurdon Institute, said: “We now understand how adult liver cells respond to the changes caused by tissue injury. This paves the way for exciting future work to boost cell regeneration in chronic liver disease, or in other organs where regeneration is minimal such as the brain or pancreas.
(Regeneration mechanism discovered in mice could provide target for drugs to combat chronic liver disease, University of Cambridge)
"These ants are fascinating as their mandibles are very unusual," said University of Illinois animal biology and entomology professor Andrew Suarez, who led the research with Fredrick J. Larabee, a postdoctoral researcher at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.
(Dracula Ant Found to Be Fastest Creature on Earth, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The investigators have shown that a lipid (a fat-like substance) called 12,13-diHOME that circulates in the blood signals brown fat cells in mice to fuel up with other lipids, said Matthew Lynes, a Joslin postdoctoral researcher
(Giving Brown Fat A Green Light, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
"The more extra-axial CSF present at six months, the more severe the autism symptoms when the kids were diagnosed at 24 months of age," said first author Dr. Mark Shen, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of North Carolina.
(Scientists say excess cerebrospinal fluid may serve as early sign of autism, Wikinews)
Here we got a rare chance to look at snapshots of genomes ‘before’ and ‘after’ a population decline in a single species, said Rebekah Rogers, who led the work as a postdoctoral scholar at Berkeley and is now an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)
Palm oil is an important commodity, but it raises concerns over the destruction of tropical rainforests that are replaced by its monocultures, says Kevin Felix Arno Darras, study author and postdoctoral researcher at Germany's University of Göttingen.
(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)
