{"id":6343,"date":"2017-12-01T09:06:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T14:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?post_type=cu_event&#038;p=6343"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:55","slug":"biology-seminar-series-dr-thomas-merritt","status":"publish","type":"cu_event","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/event\/biology-seminar-series-dr-thomas-merritt\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Seminar Series: Dr. Thomas Merritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n        \n    <\/h1>\n    \n        <\/header>\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    <div class=\"cu-buttongroup cu-component-updated flex flex-wrap md:flex-1 gap-3 md:gap-5 justify-start\">\n                                                                        <\/div>\n    \n<p><b>Transvection<\/b><b>: <\/b><b>how inter-chromosomal communication turned a bad day in the lab into a research program<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Thomas Merritt<br>\nLaurentian University<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"252\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Merritt-240x252.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Merritt-240x252.png 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Merritt-160x168.png 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Merritt-400x420.png 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Merritt-360x378.png 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Merritt.png 413w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coffee and tea will be available at 3:00 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Host: <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\">MacMillan Lab<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Key words: gene expression, epigenetics, chromosome pairing, drosophila, complex phenotypes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"cu_event_type":[43],"cu_event_audience":[15],"class_list":["post-6343","cu_event","type-cu_event","status-publish","hentry","cu_event_type-seminar-series","cu_event_audience-anyone"],"acf":{"cu_event_start_date":"2017-12-08T15:30:00","cu_event_end_date":"2017-12-08T16:30:00","cu_event_location_type":"in-person","cu_event_meeting_address_type":"on-campus","cu_building":"TT","cu_event_meeting_room":"4440Q","cu_event_meeting_address_full":null,"cu_event_virtual_type":"tbd","cu_event_virtual_meeting_link":"","cu_post_thumbnail":false,"cu_event_cost":"","cu_event_registration":"","cu_event_secondary_button":"","cu_event_contact_name":"Andrew Simons","cu_event_email":"biology@carleton.ca","cu_event_phone":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cu_event"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6352,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event\/6343\/revisions\/6352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cu_event_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_type?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"cu_event_audience","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cu_event_audience?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}