{"id":2828,"date":"2024-10-11T11:08:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/?p=2828"},"modified":"2025-05-01T12:04:57","modified_gmt":"2025-05-01T16:04:57","slug":"biochemistry-student-spotlight-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/2024\/biochemistry-student-spotlight-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Biochemistry Student Spotlight"},"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 Student Spotlight\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<h3 id=\"publication-alert-effect-of-cholesterol-of-chill-tolerance\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Publication alert: Effect of cholesterol of chill tolerance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1680\" height=\"1082\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight.jpg 1680w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight-160x103.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight-240x155.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight-768x495.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight-400x258.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight-1536x989.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/93\/Mitch-Allen-Spotlight-360x232.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1680px) 100vw, 1680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Mitchell Allen<\/strong>&nbsp;(BSc Biochemistry\/2023) has had their honours thesis research published on the effect of a high cholesterol diet on fruit fly chill tolerance published.&nbsp;This work was part of a larger project in the group of Prof.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\">Heath MacMillan<\/a>&nbsp;(Institute of Biochemistry). This research highlights the complex manner in which diet might affect thermal tolerance in insects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the paper here (<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciencedirect.com%2Fscience%2Farticle%2Fpii%2FS030645652400007X&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSalmanKhanPathan%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C0a8f788af23f4e355a3c08dce9eadc92%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638642442132409234%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=f0hU0h7NRBxYwrR8Pt0K9FkXVva4ocWIeNo6wukLa7w%3D&amp;reserved=0\">https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S030645652400007X<\/a>). For more information on Prof. MacMillan\u2019s research, visit&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmacmillanlab.com%2Fresearch&amp;data=05%7C02%7CSalmanKhanPathan%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C0a8f788af23f4e355a3c08dce9eadc92%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638642442132435148%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=HROzdOJ88CnoZijcuqKxs572ErdwRvf0HVmgbU9Faes%3D&amp;reserved=0\">http:\/\/macmillanlab.com\/research<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publication alert: Effect of cholesterol of chill tolerance Mitchell Allen&nbsp;(BSc Biochemistry\/2023) has had their honours thesis research published on the effect of a high cholesterol diet on fruit fly chill tolerance published.&nbsp;This work was part of a larger project in the group of Prof.&nbsp;Heath MacMillan&nbsp;(Institute of Biochemistry). This research highlights the complex manner in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2831,"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-2828","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\/2828","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=2828"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2828\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biochem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}