{"id":1511,"date":"2020-06-14T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T12:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/?p=1511"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:02:26","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:02:26","slug":"willa-dean-lowery-awards-2020-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/2020\/06\/14\/willa-dean-lowery-awards-2020-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Willa Dean Lowery Awards 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We congratulate our winners of the 2020 Willa Dean Lowery Fund to Support Research in the Natural Sciences:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1670\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Heather Evans Anderson\u00a0, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>CRISPR gene editing in Ciona intestinalis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gene editing via CRISPR has garnered global attention due to the recent actions of a Chinese scientist who used it to genetically modify a set of twin girls.\u00a0 This egregious act brought the world\u2019s attention to the powerful technology.\u00a0 I see great potential to use CRISPR as an educational tool.\u00a0 Previously I successfully used CRISPR in a semester long project conducted by undergraduates in a Cell Biology course (1).\u00a0 Here I intend to harness the power of CRISPR technology to genetically modify an invertebrate organism (<em>Ciona intestinalis) <\/em>to investigate the regulatory mechanisms of heart development.\u00a0 This proposal describes a set of specific research aims that will be conducted by undergraduate students at Stetson through an advanced genetics course in collaboration with Dr. Lynn Kee as well as several spin off senior research projects.\u00a0 The proposed project will bring cutting edge technology in an innovative application to Stetson.\u00a0 Funding provided by the Willa D Lowery grant would support several student projects that would lead to presentations at national level meetings and high impact peer reviewed publications.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We congratulate our winners of the 2020 Willa Dean Lowery Fund to Support Research in the Natural Sciences: Heather Evans Anderson\u00a0, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences CRISPR gene editing in Ciona intestinalis Gene editing via CRISPR has garnered global attention due to the recent actions of a Chinese scientist who used it to genetically modify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-awards","category-willa-dean-lowery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1671,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1511\/revisions\/1671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/faculty-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}