{"id":350,"date":"2020-01-06T19:13:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/?p=350"},"modified":"2020-01-06T19:13:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:13:58","slug":"graduate-students-receive-ecolab-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/?p=350","title":{"rendered":"Graduate students receive Ecolab grants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Congratulations to Natalie Aguirre and Morgan Thompson, both of whom received funding from the Texas Ecological Laboratory (\u201cEcolab\u201d) Program for their respective dissertation research projects. Natalie\u2019s project will focus on the prevalence of oak wilt disease in Texas and how this disease affects oak-insect interactions. Morgan\u2019s research will examine the chemical ecology underlying insect interactions with a weedy gourd species. Natalie and Morgan are eager to begin their fieldwork in the spring, and we are excited to see where these research projects take them! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/28638487590_be610b3ad8_k-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-351\" width=\"387\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/28638487590_be610b3ad8_k-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/28638487590_be610b3ad8_k-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/28638487590_be610b3ad8_k-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/28638487590_be610b3ad8_k-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/28638487590_be610b3ad8_k-676x1014.jpg 676w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/28638487590_be610b3ad8_k.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 387px) 100vw, 387px\" \/><figcaption>Natalie showing off her fieldwork skills<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4111-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-352\" width=\"388\" height=\"517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4111-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4111-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4111-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4111-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4111-676x901.jpg 676w, https:\/\/helmslab.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_4111-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><figcaption>Fruits from Morgan&#8217;s new study organism, buffalo gourd (<em>Cucurbita foe<\/em>tidissima)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Natalie Aguirre and Morgan Thompson, both of whom received funding from the Texas Ecological Laboratory (\u201cEcolab\u201d) Program for their respective dissertation research projects. Natalie\u2019s project will focus on the prevalence of oak wilt disease in Texas and how this disease affects oak-insect interactions. Morgan\u2019s research will examine the chemical ecology underlying insect interactions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helmslab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}