{"id":2794,"date":"2023-12-03T17:58:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-03T22:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/?post_type=directory&#038;p=2794"},"modified":"2025-04-05T12:47:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T16:47:34","slug":"garrett-sessions","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/directory\/garrett-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Student<br \/>\nB.S., Microbiology and M.S., Physiology, UNC Chapel Hill<\/p>\n<p>I am interested in how cellular senescence arises in healthy cells and how that process can drive tissue level age-related disease. I am particularly interested in how senescent cells interact with their healthy neighbors to produce new senescent cells or dysfunctional cells; a process called paracrine senescence. I study the protein level changes that occur during early middle and late stage senescence using high-content and time lapse microscopy to understand these processes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Student B.S., Microbiology and M.S., Physiology, UNC Chapel Hill I am interested in how cellular senescence arises in healthy cells and how that process can drive tissue level age-related disease. I am particularly interested in how senescent cells interact with their healthy neighbors to produce new senescent cells or dysfunctional cells; a process called &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/directory\/garrett-sessions\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Garrett Sessions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2899,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2794","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_upd_display_name":["Garrett Sessions"],"_upd_reverse_display_name":["Sessions, Garrett "],"_upd_last_name":["Sessions"],"_upd_first_name":["Garrett"],"_upd_sortorder_override":["on"],"_upd_sortorder":["4"],"_upd_gallery_summary":["Graduate Student\r\nB.S., Microbiology and M.S., Physiology, UNC Chapel Hill\r\n\r\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I'm deeply interested in cellular senescence as a driver of age-related disease. In my free time I'm an avid reader with a passion for science fiction.<\/span>"],"_upd_no_link":[],"_upd_degree1":[],"_upd_degree2":[],"_upd_email":[[{"email_text":"gasessio@email.unc.edu"}]],"_upd_phone":[],"_upd_address":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}