{"id":1552,"date":"2020-08-10T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2020-08-10T12:55:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-10T12:55:37","slug":"graduate-student-julie-moulton-in-the-ganter-laboratory-continues-thesis-research-in-home-laboratory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/graduate-student-julie-moulton-in-the-ganter-laboratory-continues-thesis-research-in-home-laboratory\/","title":{"rendered":"Graduate Student Julie Moulton in the Ganter laboratory continues thesis research in home laboratory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/08\/J-MOL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1555\" width=\"362\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/08\/J-MOL.jpg 856w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/08\/J-MOL-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/20\/2020\/08\/J-MOL-768x578.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 362px) 100vw, 362px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Most people try to exclude fruit flies from their houses, but Master&#8217;s student Julie Moulton in Geoff Ganter&#8217;s laboratory has instead welcomed the harmless insects during the current pandemic.&nbsp; Since mid-March, Dr. Ganter&#8217;s staff has followed stay-at-home precautions to help decrease the transmission of SARS-CoV-2, but has nonetheless found ways to maintain progress toward their scientific goals.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supported by weekly no-contact visits to campus to pick up supplies, Julie conducts behavioral experiments in a miniature laboratory set up in a laundry room in her home.&nbsp; A soda maker provides carbon dioxide to knock flies out for certain manipulations.&nbsp; A desk lamp illuminates an arena for analyzing behavior.&nbsp; Cooperative family members act as research assistants.&nbsp; A butterfly-rearing enclosure keeps the hard-working fruit flies away from bananas intended for humans.&nbsp; Julie&#8217;s research is helping to reveal targets for new drugs that may relieve chronic pain in humans.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite the challenges of conducting research during the pandemic, Julie successfully defended her Master\u2019s thesis on July 31, 2020. Congratulations Julie!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most people try to exclude fruit flies from their houses, but Master&#8217;s student Julie Moulton in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1557,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions\/1557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}