{"id":287,"date":"2010-09-27T15:36:27","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T15:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/?p=287"},"modified":"2023-09-26T14:30:29","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T14:30:29","slug":"dr-jared-heffron-04-returns-to-h-sc-biology-department-to-give-research-seminar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/2010\/09\/27\/dr-jared-heffron-04-returns-to-h-sc-biology-department-to-give-research-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Jared Heffron ’04 Returns to H-SC Biology Department to Give Research Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday September 23, Dr. Jared Heffron visited the Hampden-Sydney College Biology Department to give\u00a0a seminar entitled “Reawakening Anthrax Spores” which focused on his recent research involving the pathogenic bacterium Bacillus antrhracis<\/em>.\u00a0 Dr. Heffron graduated from H-SC in 2004 with Honors in Biology and recently earned his Ph.D. in Microbiology at Virginia Tech.\u00a0 Dr. Heffron delivered an exciting, enthusiastic talk about his research on B. anthracis<\/em>, particularly as it related to the role of the SleB protein in germination of bacterial endospores into active microorganisms.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Heffron’s\u00a0research has led to several publications in peer-reviewed journals, and he recently received a National Academy of Science Research Associate Fellowship to continue his work as a postdoctoral fellow in the Bacteriology Division of the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, where he will be working toward the generation of a combined vaccine against Bacillus anthracis<\/em> and Yersinia pestis<\/em>, the causative agent of Bubonic plague.\u00a0 Dr. Heffron was also quick to point out in his talk just how well he had been prepared as a scientist, a writer, and a speaker during his time at H-SC.\u00a0 He is living proof that as the saying goes, “You really can do anything with a degree from Hampden-Sydney!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday September 23, Dr. Jared Heffron visited the Hampden-Sydney College Biology Department to give\u00a0a seminar entitled “Reawakening Anthrax Spores” which focused on his recent research involving the pathogenic bacterium Bacillus antrhracis.\u00a0 Dr. Heffron graduated from H-SC in 2004 with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2257,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/2257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.hsc.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}