{"id":1443,"date":"2025-11-11T21:25:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2026-10-24T01:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T01:44:32","slug":"david-defends-his-phd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/david-defends-his-phd\/","title":{"rendered":"David defends his PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His first paper just came out in mBio &#8211; look for another soon on phage resistance in Rhizobium and plasmid fusion and fission. Woo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1444\" srcset=\"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-100x133.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-150x200.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-200x267.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-300x400.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-450x600.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-600x800.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-900x1200.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/local\/heath\/uploads\/2025\/12\/IMG_8401-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption>I&#8217;m not crying &#8211; you&#8217;re crying. Note that the Peruvian Fixer carries saddlebags that contain plasmids and viruses on his alpaca.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His first paper just came out in mBio &#8211; look for another soon on phage resistance &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/david-defends-his-phd\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">David defends his PhD<\/span> Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/app.sib.illinois.edu\/heath\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}