{"id":11483,"date":"2026-10-13T14:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/?p=11483"},"modified":"2026-10-13T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T18:32:50","slug":"mgrinstaff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/10\/13\/mgrinstaff\/","title":{"rendered":"Optimizing self-assembling coiled-coil protein production for hydrogel development"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\">Mentors<\/h3>\n\n\t<ul class=\"profile-listing profile-format-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced has-title post-5887 profile type-profile status-publish hentry departments-bme departments-chem departments-mse-dept departments-med affiliation-faculty program-year-yr-2023 program-year-186 profile-field-reu\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/mark-grinstaff\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"profile-photo profile-photo-advanced\"><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2025\/09\/GRINSTAFF_HS-008-1200x1200-1-e1763996613675-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Mark Grinstaff<\/h6>\n\t\t<p class=\"profile-title profile-title-advanced\">William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor (BME, Chemistry, MSE, MED)<\/p>\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t\t\t\n<li class=\"profile-item profile-item-advanced post-11474 profile type-profile status-publish hentry affiliation-graduate-student\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/profile\/victoria-lozano-escarra\/\" class=\"profile-link profile-link-advanced\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 class=\"profile-name profile-name-advanced\">Victoria Lozano Escarra<\/h6>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\n\t\n<\/li>\n\t\t\t<\/ul>\n\t\n<div class=\" bu-callout alignright\"><\/p>\n<h3>Research Participant<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Program: INM REU<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/photonics-programs\/files\/2026\/09\/20260729-REU-NTU-Headshots-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5958 alignnone\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-root=\"1\"><b>Kamryn Higa<\/b><\/span>, Research Experiences for Undergraduates.<br \/>\n<a href='https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/2026\/10\/05\/kamryn-higa\/' class='button button'>Learn More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mentors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11497,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11483\/revisions\/11497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/photonics-programs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}