{"id":276,"date":"2013-07-22T15:53:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/undergradresearch\/?p=276"},"modified":"2013-07-22T15:53:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:53:52","slug":"lydia-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/2013\/07\/22\/lydia-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Lydia Brown – Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lydia Brown in the lab.<\/p><\/div>\n

Name:\u00a0<\/strong>Lydia Brown<\/p>\n

Major:<\/strong>\u00a0Biology<\/p>\n

Classification:<\/strong>\u00a0Junior<\/p>\n

Hometown:<\/strong>\u00a0Tuscon, AZ<\/p>\n

Mentor:<\/strong>\u00a0Dr. Rebecca Hunter, Biology<\/p>\n

What I Study:<\/strong>\u00a0This summer I joined the Hunter research lab, which is a molecular systematics lab. This is a field that uses DNA to determine the relationships of organisms. We are currently working on a project to determine what the evolutionary relationships are between different types of brittle stars- a groups of marine invertebrates similar to star fish. Ultimately, we are trying to figure out if brittle stars that look similar and\/or live in similar environments are more closely related then those without these shared characteristics.<\/p>\n

Why I do research:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0While I have always been interested in doing research, when I first started my main motivation for doing research was because I knew it could help my medical school application. However, as I became more involved this motivation changed. While, I do not always get the results I want (which is very frustrating), I enjoy research because it challenges me everyday. I love being able come up with different possibilities and ideas to try to implement. Plus I am amazed at all the technology possible through science and enjoy learning about all the potential that scientific research has on society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While, I do not always get the results I want (which is very frustrating), I enjoy research because it challenges me everyday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9214,"featured_media":376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76751,76729],"tags":[2477,76738,76729],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature","category-student-researcher","tag-biology","tag-spur","tag-student-researcher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/uresearch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}