{"id":7871,"date":"2019-07-24T15:46:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T19:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=7871"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:48","slug":"biology-prof-cathy-cullingham-plans-to-use-pine-tree-genetics-to-tackle-pine-beetle-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2019\/biology-prof-cathy-cullingham-plans-to-use-pine-tree-genetics-to-tackle-pine-beetle-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Prof Cathy Cullingham plans to use pine tree genetics to tackle pine beetle problem"},"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 Prof Cathy Cullingham plans to use pine tree genetics to tackle pine beetle problem\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>What is it about a pine tree that could make it a good defender against the devastating&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrcan.gc.ca\/our-natural-resources\/forests-and-forestry\/wildland-fires-insects-and-disturbances\/top-forest-insects-and-diseases-canada\/mountain-pine-beetle\/13381\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mountain pine beetle<\/a>?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prof.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.catherinecullingham.com\/research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Catherine Cullingham<\/a>&nbsp;would argue that it\u2019s in the genes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cullingham was at the University of Alberta, researching pine-tree genetics, before joining Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Department of Biology<\/a>&nbsp;this summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She fell in love with molecular biology during her undergrad at Guelph University, where she studied molecular biology and genetics, and went on to complete a PhD in watershed ecosystems at Trent University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/its-all-in-the-genes\/\">here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Cullingham-1200x680-240x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7873\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Cullingham-1200x680-240x136.jpg 240w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Cullingham-1200x680-160x91.jpg 160w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Cullingham-1200x680-768x435.jpg 768w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Cullingham-1200x680-400x227.jpg 400w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Cullingham-1200x680-360x204.jpg 360w, https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/230\/Cullingham-1200x680.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is it about a pine tree that could make it a good defender against the devastating&nbsp;mountain pine beetle? Prof.&nbsp;Catherine Cullingham&nbsp;would argue that it\u2019s in the genes. Cullingham was at the University of Alberta, researching pine-tree genetics, before joining Carleton University\u2019s&nbsp;Department of Biology&nbsp;this summer. She fell in love with molecular biology during her undergrad at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7872,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7871","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\/7871","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=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7875,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions\/7875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}