{"id":496,"date":"2019-11-22T12:11:56","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/?p=496"},"modified":"2019-11-22T12:11:56","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T17:11:56","slug":"biology-professors-discuss-work-at-the-rockefeller-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/2019\/11\/22\/biology-professors-discuss-work-at-the-rockefeller-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology Professors Discuss Work at The Rockefeller University"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Laura Twersky, Ph.D., professor of biology; Christina Mortellaro, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology; Jill Callahan, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of biology; and Irene Matejko, Ph.D., adjunct instructor of biology,\u00a0visited Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., and Elias Coutavas, Ph.D., at <\/span><span>The Rockefeller University <\/span><span>to discuss their work and student research opportunities. Dr. Matejko formerly worked in the laboratory of Dr. Freidman, who discovered\u00a0leptin, a hormone made by fat cells that suppresses appetite.\u00a0Dr. Coutavas served as a senior research associate of Gunter Blobel, Ph.D., who received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1999 for discovering the function of protein transport signals in cells.<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/11\/image-4-400x300.png\" alt=\"Biology professors\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/11\/image-4-400x300.png 400w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/11\/image-4-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/11\/image-4-120x90.png 120w, https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/4\/files\/2019\/11\/image-4.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Twersky, Ph.D., professor of biology; Christina Mortellaro, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology; Jill Callahan, Ph.D., associate professor and chair of biology; and Irene Matejko, Ph.D., adjunct instructor of biology,\u00a0visited Jeffrey Friedman, M.D., Ph.D., and Elias Coutavas, Ph.D., at The Rockefeller University to discuss their work and student research opportunities. Dr. Matejko formerly worked in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saintpeters.edu\/academics\/undergraduate-programs\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}