{"id":622,"date":"2019-10-10T15:26:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:26:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/?page_id=622"},"modified":"2019-10-10T15:26:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-10T19:26:52","slug":"meet-a-ba-ma-student","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/meet-a-ba-ma-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet a BA\/MA Student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/bmb\/files\/2019\/10\/photo_steven-cincotta1-475x636-475x636.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"475\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-623 alignleft\" \/><\/p>\n<h3>Steven Cincotta<\/h3>\n<h4>Mentor\u2019s Name<\/h4>\n<p><em>Laertis Ikonomou<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Location<\/h4>\n<p><em>Boston University\u2019s Medical Campus Center for Regenerative Medicine<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Title of Project<\/h4>\n<p><em>\u201cStudy of the Effect of Transient Nkx2.1 Expression During Directed Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells to Lung\/Thyroid Progenitor Cells.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Cincotta\u2019s study is focused on the process of turning mouse embryonic stem cells into a special type of cell known as a lung\/thyroid progenitor cell that can give rise to mature cell lineages of both the lung and thyroid. Specifically, working on studying different signals that can be given to these cells during the directed differentiation procedure in order to increase the efficiency of the process. He uses a variety of techniques to characterize the gene expression patterns of our resulting cells, including immunocytochemistry, flow cytometry, and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steven Cincotta Mentor\u2019s Name Laertis Ikonomou Location Boston University\u2019s Medical Campus Center for Regenerative Medicine Title of Project \u201cStudy of the Effect of Transient Nkx2.1 Expression During Directed Differentiation of Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells to Lung\/Thyroid Progenitor Cells.\u201d Cincotta\u2019s study is focused on the process of turning mouse embryonic stem cells into a special type [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15047,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15047"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":624,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/622\/revisions\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/bmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}