{"id":12304,"date":"2019-01-25T12:02:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/?p=12304"},"modified":"2019-12-11T12:57:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:57:19","slug":"andrew-learner-receives-his-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/andrew-learner-receives-his-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Learner receives his PhD!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on January 25, 2019.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8639\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 242px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8639 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/795\/2019\/01\/Andrew-Lerner-defense-Jan-2019-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Flier of Andrew Lerner defense January 25 2019 with same details as web text above this image\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Andrew Learner, PhD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Andrew Learner, under the direction of Dr. Hahn and Dr. Kuhlman, successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on January 25, 2019! The title of his dissertation was &#8220;<em>Elucidating Dynamics of Histone Post-Translational Modifications Using Optogenetics\u201d.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We wish Andrew the best in all his future endeavors\u2014 Congratulations!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on January 25, 2019. Andrew Learner, under the direction of Dr. Hahn and Dr. Kuhlman, successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on January 25, 2019! The title of his dissertation was &#8220;Elucidating Dynamics of Histone Post-Translational Modifications Using Optogenetics\u201d.\u00a0 We wish Andrew the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/andrew-learner-receives-his-phd\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Andrew Learner receives his PhD!\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86415,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[306,276,13,300],"class_list":["post-12304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-2019_student_year_in-review","tag-news-studentpostdocstaff_s19","tag-news_students","tag-student-thesis-defense","odd"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Andrew Learner receives his PhD! | Biochemistry and Biophysics<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/biochem\/news\/andrew-learner-receives-his-phd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Andrew Learner receives his PhD! | Biochemistry and Biophysics\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Andrew successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on January 25, 2019. 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