{"id":6153,"date":"2017-09-07T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2017-09-07T16:20:28","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:20:28","slug":"tackling-zika-virus-biology-grad-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2017\/tackling-zika-virus-biology-grad-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling the Zika Virus: Biology Grad Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the height of the Zika virus threat, Carleton Biology graduate student Tom Kazmirchuk (<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/people\/ashkan-golshani\/\">Golshani Lab<\/a>) was reading a news article outlining how infants were being born with a serious condition called microcephaly as a result of the Zika infection.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6156 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kazmirchuk-240x300-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kazmirchuk-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/Kazmirchuk-240x300-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time\u00a0I came up with the idea to design peptide-based therapeutics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Kazmirchuk&#8217;s research, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/gradstudents.carleton.ca\/2017\/grad-research-tackling-zika-virus\/\">Current Grad Student News<\/a> page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the height of the Zika virus threat, Carleton Biology graduate student Tom Kazmirchuk (Golshani Lab) was reading a news article outlining how infants were being born with a serious condition called microcephaly as a result of the Zika infection. \u201cAt this time\u00a0I came up with the idea to design peptide-based therapeutics.\u201d To learn more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.2 - 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