{"id":12638,"date":"2018-05-14T10:25:43","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T17:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/?post_type=award&#038;p=12638"},"modified":"2019-08-12T10:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-12T17:20:07","slug":"exploring-bacterial-genomes-in-the-deep-biosphere","status":"publish","type":"award","link":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/award\/exploring-bacterial-genomes-in-the-deep-biosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring bacterial genomes in the deep biosphere"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"l-main l-content\">\n<p>I was very excited to hear that I received the C-DEBI grant, because I had nothing but wonderful experiences during my C-DEBI summer internship at USC in 2016. Receiving the grant has enabled me to continue doing research and maintain a presence within the C-DEBI community, which has opened doors to numerous opportunities. Jen Biddle at the University of Delaware worked with me to help fund my internship in her lab. I had my first experience with grant proposal writing and collaborating with a professor from another university. It was a great privilege to work along side Jen and her students. Bioinformatics comprised only a very small portion of that internship at USC so when Jen offered me the opportunity to learn more about that field I jumped at the chance. I have never previously worked with metagenomics and I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Bins, scripts, and completeness, these are all terms that I had no idea what they meant before this internship. I was able to work on samples collected from the Costa Rica Margin. The skills I learned throughout the internship have allowed me to determine what I would like to do for my Master\u2019s Degree. I am very pleased to say that I will be a graduate student at the University of Delaware this summer and I will have Jen as my advisor. I am very excited to continue on this journey and I look forward to more opportunities with C-DEBI.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"w-image\">\n<div class=\"w-image-h\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Christina-Baughan-600x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" \/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wpb_text_column caption\">\n<div class=\"wpb_wrapper\">\n<p>Christina Baughan at the Biddle lab, University of Delaware.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":[],"award_type":[14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards\/12638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/awards"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/award"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"award_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darkenergybiosphere.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/award_type?post=12638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}