{"id":737,"date":"2018-05-23T10:25:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/?p=737"},"modified":"2019-07-02T10:37:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T14:37:22","slug":"passing-the-torch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/passing-the-torch\/","title":{"rendered":"Passing the Torch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_738\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-738\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-738 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/79\/2019\/06\/Lab_summer2018-e1527097455704-300x187-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"(pictured from left to right: Hannah Stillman, David Brinkley, Hanny Rivera, Ann Tarrant)\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-738\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(pictured from left to right: Hannah Stillman, David Brinkley, Hanny Rivera, Ann Tarrant)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday was the last day in the lab for Falmouth Academy Intern Hannah Stillman and just the second day for Summer Student Fellow David Brinkley. Both of them have contributed or will contribute to our ongoing studies of the sea anemone\u00a0<em>Nematostella<\/em>. Hannah helped with animal care and joined us in studies of thermal plasticity and circadian rhythms. One cool brand-new result from her work is that daily cycles in extension by\u00a0<em>Nematostella<\/em>\u00a0seem to be directly light-cued and not under circadian control\u2026but we are still following up on this very new result. David has already started working on optimizing metabolic assays that may provide insight into the mechanisms that\u00a0<em>Nematostella<\/em>\u00a0uses to respond to (acclimate to) temperature changes in the environment. We have really appreciated Hannah\u2019s conscientious hard work and infectious enthusiasm and hope to see her back soon. And we\u2019re excited to see what David discovers this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday was the last day in the lab for Falmouth Academy Intern Hannah Stillman and just the second day for Summer Student Fellow David Brinkley. Both of them have contributed or will contribute to our ongoing studies of the sea anemone\u00a0Nematostella. Hannah helped with animal care and joined us in studies of thermal plasticity and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/tarrantlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}