{"id":6926,"date":"2025-11-14T12:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T17:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/?p=6926"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:23:49","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T17:23:49","slug":"lucas-james-successfully-defended-his-phd-thesis-november-14th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/lucas-james-successfully-defended-his-phd-thesis-november-14th\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucas James Successfully Defended His PhD Thesis November 14th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On November 14th, Lucas James successfully defended his PhD Thesis: \u201cLeveraging Genetic Models to Guide Therapeutic Development for Neurodevelopmental Disorders\u201d. Mentors: Dr. Ben Philpot and Dr. Mark Zylka.\u00a0 Congratulations Dr. James!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6927\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-807x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"807\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-807x1024.jpg 807w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-768x974.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-1211x1536.jpg 1211w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-1614x2048.jpg 1614w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-600x761.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-scaled.jpg 2018w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 807px) 100vw, 807px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 14th, Lucas James successfully defended his PhD Thesis: \u201cLeveraging Genetic Models to Guide Therapeutic Development for Neurodevelopmental Disorders\u201d. Mentors: Dr. Ben Philpot and Dr. Mark Zylka.\u00a0 Congratulations Dr. James!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7858,"featured_media":6927,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-scaled.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-236x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-768x974.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-807x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/778\/2025\/11\/Jame_Luke_Pic_2025-150x209.jpg","featured_image_alt":"","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6928,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6926\/revisions\/6928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/neuroscience\/curriculum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}