{"id":12346,"date":"2020-10-26T12:03:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=12346"},"modified":"2026-03-17T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:44:27","slug":"mark-xia","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/people\/profiles\/mark-xia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Xia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Class Year<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Class of 2027<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Where are you from?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nnajing, China<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What is your favorite Biology or BMB course?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BI206<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What kind of research have you done?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m investigating the mechanisms and regulation of mitochondrial RNA processing in Trypanosoma brucei, which is responsible for causing the African sleeping sickness, over at the BU medical campus.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>How did you get your research position?<\/b><b><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I read about my principal investigator&#8217;s research online at the BU Department of Infectious Diseases, so I emailed her and expressed my utmost interest in her project and wished to work with her.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What extracurricular activities are you involved in?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Clinical volunteering, where I worked in an allergy and immunology clinic, I will also be starting to volunteer at the Boston Medical Center. I am also volunteering at a homeless shelter serving the homeless breakfast and lunch.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What is your favorite dining spot on or around campus?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Warren dining hall<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What is your favorite BU memory?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Splash and squeezing into the T every morning to class<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What\u2019s one BU tip you wish you knew sooner?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>go to office hours !!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>What are your post-graduation plans?<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>applying to medical schools<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16062,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12346"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21218,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/12346\/revisions\/21218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}