{"id":11035,"date":"2025-10-20T12:35:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/?p=11035"},"modified":"2025-10-20T12:35:57","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T16:35:57","slug":"gmb-graduate-students-riya-gohil-and-micah-hysong-selected-top-ten-for-three-minute-thesis-3mt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/2025\/10\/gmb-graduate-students-riya-gohil-and-micah-hysong-selected-top-ten-for-three-minute-thesis-3mt\/","title":{"rendered":"GMB Graduate Students Riya Gohil and Micah Hysong selected top ten for Three Minute Thesis (3MT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11036\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 277px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11036\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil.jpg\" alt=\"Micah Hysong and Riya Gohil\" width=\"267\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil-600x504.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students Riya Gohil and Micah Hysong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"lead\">Congratulation to Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students Riya Gohil (Jill Dowen Lab) and Micah Hysong (Laura Raffield Lab), who were both selected in the top ten for the 2025 Three Minute Thesis!<\/p>\n<p>The Three Minute Thesis (3MT) is an academic competition where graduate students have just three minutes to explain the breadth and significance of their research project to a non-specialist audience. Two GMB students are among the ten UNC finalists: Riya Gohil and Micah Hysong. The first-place finisher will have the opportunity to represent UNC at the regional 3MT competition in Baton Rouge, LA. \u00a0There is also a People\u2019s Choice Award where audience members get to vote for their favorite presentation. All graduate students are welcome to attend! Please come cheer on your colleagues!<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2025 3MT Finalists:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Robert Anderson III,<\/strong>\u00a0Nutrition<\/li>\n<li><strong>Parker Bach,<\/strong>\u00a0Hussman School of Journalism and Media<\/li>\n<li><strong>Paz Cook,<\/strong>\u00a0Epidemiology<\/li>\n<li><strong>Riya Gohil,<\/strong>\u00a0Genetics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Micah Hysong,<\/strong>\u00a0Genetics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Alita Miller,<\/strong>\u00a0Pharmaceutical Sciences<\/li>\n<li><strong>Connor Murphy,<\/strong>\u00a0Pharmacoengineering and Molecular Pharmaceutics<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nicole Peterson,<\/strong>\u00a0Hussman School of Journalism and Media<\/li>\n<li><strong>Erika Rezende Silva,<\/strong>\u00a0Adams School of Dentistry<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bryttani Wooten,<\/strong>\u00a0Geography and Environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These finalists will have just three minutes to present their research to a general audience, using only a single slide. It\u2019s a true test of clarity, conciseness and communication skills.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gradschool.unc.edu\/event\/three-minute-thesis-finals\/\">Three Minute Thesis Finals<br \/>\n<\/a><strong>When:<\/strong>\u00a0Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 4:00 \u2013 5:00 p.m.<br \/>\n<strong>Where:<\/strong>\u00a0Sonja Haynes Stone Center, Hitchcock Multipurpose Room (in person)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulation to Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students Riya Gohil (Jill Dowen Lab) and Micah Hysong (Laura Raffield Lab), who were both selected in the top ten for the 2025 Three Minute Thesis!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":11036,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil-300x252.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/10\/Hysong-and-Gohil-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"Micah Hysong and Riya Gohil","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11035"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11037,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11035\/revisions\/11037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}