{"id":43,"date":"2021-04-24T07:48:02","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T07:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/?p=43"},"modified":"2022-05-25T15:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:03:33","slug":"2021-biology-undergraduate-research-award-in-honor-of-pat-marsteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/2021\/04\/24\/2021-biology-undergraduate-research-award-in-honor-of-pat-marsteller\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Biology Undergraduate Research Award in honor of Pat Marsteller"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/alaidrous-award-250x141.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44\" width=\"125\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/alaidrous-award-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/alaidrous-award-850x478.png 850w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/alaidrous-award-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/alaidrous-award-800x445.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Wajd Alaidrous<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Pat Marsteller award recognizes Biology majors who have excelled in research during their Emory careers. This year\u2019s award goes to two students, Wajd Alaidrous and Dani Farchi. In the de Roode lab, Wajd published a paper on the effects of circadian rhythm disruption on the susceptibility of monarch butterflies to parasites. Further, Wajd&#8217;s honors thesis, which will soon be submitted for publication, assessed the effects of monarch densities on parasitism<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/farchi-award-250x141.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-45\" width=\"125\" height=\"71\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/farchi-award-250x141.png 250w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/farchi-award-850x478.png 850w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/farchi-award-1200x675.png 1200w, https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/files\/2022\/02\/farchi-award-800x445.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 125px) 100vw, 125px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Daniela Farchi<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>As a member of the Corbett Lab, Dani used genetic engineering in yeast to develop a model for studying multiple myeloma cancer, work which will soon be submitted for publication. Additionally, she developed models of the RNA exosome that were used to study SHRF syndrome, work that is currently in revision for publication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pat Marsteller award recognizes Biology majors who have excelled in research during their Emory careers. This year\u2019s award goes to two students, Wajd Alaidrous and Dani Farchi. In the&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/2021\/04\/24\/2021-biology-undergraduate-research-award-in-honor-of-pat-marsteller\/\" class=\"apace-readmore-link\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">2021 Biology Undergraduate Research Award in honor of Pat Marsteller<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7234,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards-recognition","category-student-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/49"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emorybiologynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}