{"id":8711,"date":"2023-08-08T10:02:17","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/?p=8711"},"modified":"2023-08-08T10:02:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T14:02:18","slug":"geoff-ganter-professor-in-the-college-of-arts-and-sciences-school-of-biological-sciences-recently-received-an-academic-research-excellence-award-from-the-national-institute-of-neuro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/geoff-ganter-professor-in-the-college-of-arts-and-sciences-school-of-biological-sciences-recently-received-an-academic-research-excellence-award-from-the-national-institute-of-neuro\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoff Ganter, Professor in the\u00a0College of Arts and Sciences&#8217; School of Biological Sciences, recently received\u00a0an\u00a0Academic Research Excellence Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The funded project is focused on describing the ability of a biochemical signaling pathway called Wnt\/Wingless to\u00a0control pain sensitivity, using the\u00a0<em>Drosophila melanogaster<\/em>, or fruit fly, model system.\u00a0 With powerful and rapid genetic techniques, Ganter&#8217;s team perturbs the expression of key pathway components in the sensory neurons that perceive painful stimuli, such as noxious heat or pressure, then uses behavioral assays to determine resulting effects on pain sensitivity.\u00a0 Any components determined to play such a role represent potential targets for novel pain treatments for use in humans.\u00a0 The three-year grant is Ganter&#8217;s fourth such award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The funded project is focused on describing the ability of a biochemical signaling pathway called Wnt\/Wingless &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":[21],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-8711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications-and-awards"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711","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=8711"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8712,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8711\/revisions\/8712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8711"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.une.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=8711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}