{"id":1463,"date":"2020-09-22T10:15:57","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T14:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=1463"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:05:00","slug":"biochemistry-professor-myron-smith-receives-a-write-up-in-the-canadian-science-publishing-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2020\/biochemistry-professor-myron-smith-receives-a-write-up-in-the-canadian-science-publishing-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Professor Myron Smith Receives a Write-Up in the Canadian Science Publishing Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Biochemistry Professor Myron Smith Receives a Write-Up in the Canadian Science Publishing Blog\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Biochemistry Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/myron-smith\/\">Myron Smith<\/a> of the <a href=\"https:\/\/myronlsmith.wordpress.com\/about\/\">Smith lab<\/a>, has a paper published with the Canadian Science Publishing. The paper touches on volatile organic compounds, and whether or not they can save bats from white-nose syndrome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The white-nose syndrome fungus,&nbsp;<em>Pseudogymnoascus<\/em>&nbsp;<em>destructans<\/em>, colonizes the skin of hibernating bats,&nbsp;<a title=\"leading\" href=\"https:\/\/bmcphysiol.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12899-014-0010-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leading<\/a>&nbsp;to dehydration, electrolyte loss, and eventually starvation. The disease is named for the distinctive whitish growth that appears on the muzzle and wings of its victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cdnsciencepub.com\/could-volatile-organic-compounds-save-bats-from-white-nose-syndrome\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biochemistry Professor Myron Smith of the Smith lab, has a paper published with the Canadian Science Publishing. The paper touches on volatile organic compounds, and whether or not they can save bats from white-nose syndrome. The white-nose syndrome fungus,&nbsp;Pseudogymnoascus&nbsp;destructans, colonizes the skin of hibernating bats,&nbsp;leading&nbsp;to dehydration, electrolyte loss, and eventually starvation. The disease is named [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1289,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1463\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}