{"id":6153,"date":"2017-09-07T16:20:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T20:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:49","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":"\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                        Tackling the Zika Virus: Biology Grad Research\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<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\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Kazmirchuk-240x300-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Kazmirchuk-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Kazmirchuk-240x300-160x200.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt this time&nbsp;I came up with the idea to design peptide-based therapeutics.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\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&nbsp;I came up with the idea to design peptide-based therapeutics.\u201d To learn more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","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=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6159,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/6159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}