{"id":7408,"date":"2019-03-18T13:53:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T17:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=7408"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:48","slug":"biologys-melody-gavel-wins-carletons-2019-three-minute-thesis-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2019\/biologys-melody-gavel-wins-carletons-2019-three-minute-thesis-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology&#8217;s Melody Gavel Wins Carleton&#8217;s 2019 Three Minute Thesis Competition"},"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                        Biology&#8217;s Melody Gavel Wins Carleton&#8217;s 2019 Three Minute Thesis Competition\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Melody Gavel, a master&#8217;s student from the Department of Biology, has won Carleton University&#8217;s 2019 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Melody is a part of the&nbsp;Forbes lab and Robinson lab (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and her research focuses on the impact of pesticides (neonicotinoids) on frog immune systems. Melody also won the people&#8217;s choice award at the 3MT.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We in the Biology Department would like to extend our congratulations to Melody and wish her luck at the 3MT Ontario provincial competition on April 17, 2019 at McMaster University in Hamilton!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To read more about Melody&#8217;s presentation and those of the runners-up please <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/3mt-2019\/?utm_source=HomepageBanner&amp;utm_campaign=March2019\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melody Gavel, a master&#8217;s student from the Department of Biology, has won Carleton University&#8217;s 2019 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) competition. Melody is a part of the&nbsp;Forbes lab and Robinson lab (Environment and Climate Change Canada) and her research focuses on the impact of pesticides (neonicotinoids) on frog immune systems. Melody also won the people&#8217;s choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7428,"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-7408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grad-student-news","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408","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=7408"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7429,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7408\/revisions\/7429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}