{"id":183,"date":"2019-06-24T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T22:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/?p=183"},"modified":"2019-07-01T11:54:53","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T15:54:53","slug":"jacob-myers-bcmb-joins-university-of-nebraskas-summer-reu-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/2019\/06\/24\/jacob-myers-bcmb-joins-university-of-nebraskas-summer-reu-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacob Myers (BCMB) joins University of Nebraska&#8217;s Summer REU Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I&#8217;m Jacob Myers, a rising junior BCMB major at Scranton.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2019\/06\/Myers-Nebraska-Redox-photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-184 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2019\/06\/Myers-Nebraska-Redox-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4032\" height=\"1960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2019\/06\/Myers-Nebraska-Redox-photo.jpg 4032w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2019\/06\/Myers-Nebraska-Redox-photo-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2019\/06\/Myers-Nebraska-Redox-photo-768x373.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/files\/2019\/06\/Myers-Nebraska-Redox-photo-1024x498.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 4032px) 100vw, 4032px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\">This Summer I am at an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program for redox biology at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. This ten week experience comes with a stipend, room and board, as well as my travel expenses paid for by the NSF. (Shout out to Drs. Hardisky and Royer for writing letters of recommendation for me, and to Dr. Foley for the research experience that helped me land the REU!)<\/p>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\">While I&#8217;m here I will be working on better understanding the roll of Sestrin-2 in regulating cell homeostasis by initiating the degradation of damaged mitochondria. \u00a0Wish me luck; I hope to be able to tell you more about it by the end of the summer.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi all, I&#8217;m Jacob Myers, a rising junior BCMB major at Scranton.\u00a0 This Summer I am at an REU (Research Experience for Undergraduates) program for redox biology at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. This ten week experience comes with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/2019\/06\/24\/jacob-myers-bcmb-joins-university-of-nebraskas-summer-reu-program\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-professional-development-opportunities","category-student-research","category-student-success"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}