{"id":5400,"date":"2023-11-09T14:19:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/?p=5400"},"modified":"2023-11-09T14:23:11","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T19:23:11","slug":"strauss-dittmer-among-winners-of-2023-art-in-science-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/strauss-dittmer-among-winners-of-2023-art-in-science-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Strauss, Dittmer Among Winners of 2023 Art in Science Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"

During University Research Week, the labs of Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Jack Griffith, PhD, and Joshua Strauss, PhD, won the Art-in-Science Competition held by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Dittmer leads the LCCC Vironomics Core, while Dr. Strauss directs the UNC Cryo-EM Core Facility.<\/p>\n

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Sponsored by the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at UNC-Chapel Hill, University Research Week featured speakers, presentations, and events, including the Art in Science Competition held by the School of Medicine Office of Research.<\/p>\n

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Allaura Cone, PhD, Meredith Chambers, and Dirk Dittmer, PhD, in the UNC Department of Microbiology & Immunology and the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, were recognized for their image titled, \u201cEndolysosomal Compartments in U-2 OS Cells,\u201d fixed and stained with CD81 (cyan), LAMP1 (magenta), and Rhodamine-Phalloidin (yellow). Imaged at 100x on a confocal microscope, tetraspanin CD81 and Lysosome-associated membraine glycoprotein 1 (LAMP1) are important for the trafficking of extracellular vesicles throughout the cell.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Emily Robinson and Joshua Strauss, PhD, in the UNC Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics and the Cryo-EM Core Facility, were recognized for their image titled, Nucleosome, a 3D reconstruction of a nucleosome against a backdrop of the initial 2D classes that came together to form the reconstruction. The nucleosome was imaged as part of the Cryo-EM Core\u2019s development of novel lipid affinity grids.<\/p>\n

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Original article available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During University Research Week, the labs of Dirk Dittmer, PhD, Jack Griffith, PhD, and Joshua Strauss, PhD, won the Art-in-Science Competition held by the UNC School of Medicine Office of Research.   Dr. Dittmer leads the LCCC Vironomics Core, while Dr. Strauss directs the UNC Cryo-EM Core Facility. Sponsored by the Office of the Vice … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55643,"featured_media":5403,"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":[],"class_list":["post-5400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/11\/Art-In-Science-poster-3-strauss-2023-300x216-1.jpeg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/11\/Art-In-Science-poster-3-strauss-2023-300x216-1.jpeg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/11\/Art-In-Science-poster-3-strauss-2023-300x216-1.jpeg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/11\/Art-In-Science-poster-3-strauss-2023-300x216-1.jpeg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/943\/2023\/11\/Art-In-Science-poster-3-strauss-2023-300x216-1-150x150.jpeg","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/corefacilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}