{"id":529,"date":"2011-05-20T13:37:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T17:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/?p=529"},"modified":"2011-05-20T13:37:51","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T17:37:51","slug":"nimbios-gra-wins-dissertation-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/20\/nimbios-gra-wins-dissertation-award\/","title":{"rendered":"NIMBioS GRA Wins Dissertation Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 115px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/personnel\/gras\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"  \" title=\"Premal Shah\" src=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/images\/gras\/shah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"105\" height=\"140\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Premal Shah<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/personnel\/gras\" target=\"_blank\">NIMBioS GRA Premal Shah<\/a> has received the Jim Tanner award for outstanding dissertation from UT&#8217;s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Shah graduated this semester with a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has been working in the lab of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tiem.utk.edu\/~mikeg\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Gilchrist<\/a>, who is also a NIMBioS Senior Personnel member. Shah&#8217;s dissertation research focused on developing models of protein  translation and studying how various selective forces drive the  evolution of codon usage bias. One of Shah&#8217;s dissertation chapters, coauthored with Gilchrist, is in press at PNAS. Shah&#8217;s next gig is as postdoctoral fellow in the lab of <a href=\"http:\/\/mathbio.sas.upenn.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Joshua Plotkin<\/a> at the University of Pennsylvania, starting in June. Congratulations Dr. Shah!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIMBioS GRA Premal Shah has received the Jim Tanner award for outstanding dissertation from UT&#8217;s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Shah graduated this semester with a Ph.D. in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. He has been working in the lab &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/20\/nimbios-gra-wins-dissertation-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,32],"tags":[99,109],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legacy.nimbios.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}