{"id":11179,"date":"2021-08-27T14:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T18:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=11179"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:46","slug":"frosted-flies-heath-macmillans-research-explores-genes-that-lead-to-cell-death-in-insects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/frosted-flies-heath-macmillans-research-explores-genes-that-lead-to-cell-death-in-insects\/","title":{"rendered":"Frosted Flies: Heath MacMillan&#8217;s Research Explores Genes that Lead to Cell Death in Insects"},"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                        Frosted Flies: Heath MacMillan&#8217;s Research Explores Genes that Lead to Cell Death in Insects\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Carleton University biology professor&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/heath-macmillan\/\">Heath MacMillan<\/a>&nbsp;has spent most of his career trying to understand what causes insects to live or die at low temperatures. More specifically, he has been researching the thermal limits of fruit flies ever since he was an undergraduate biology student at Western University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI got excited at how little was known in this area,\u201d he says. \u201cIt just seemed like such a vast field to play, to explore.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.carleton.ca\/story\/frosted-flies-research-explores-genes-that-lead-to-cell-death-in-insects\/?utm_source=Homepage&amp;utm_medium=Spotlight\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carleton University biology professor&nbsp;Heath MacMillan&nbsp;has spent most of his career trying to understand what causes insects to live or die at low temperatures. More specifically, he has been researching the thermal limits of fruit flies ever since he was an undergraduate biology student at Western University. \u201cI got excited at how little was known in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11180,"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-11179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11181,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11179\/revisions\/11181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}