{"id":54,"date":"2014-03-16T12:21:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=54"},"modified":"2014-05-11T07:06:40","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T11:06:40","slug":"students-seek-antibodies-among-the-alpacas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2014\/students-seek-antibodies-among-the-alpacas\/","title":{"rendered":"Students Seek Antibodies Among the Alpacas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of lab animals, alpacas don't usually spring to mind. They tend to conjure up images of socks and sweaters. But Geisel's Mark Spaller and his students have started to focus on this small South American cousin of the camel as an important part of their antibody protein studies.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/now.dartmouth.edu\/2014\/02\/dartmouth-students-seek-antibodies-among-the-alpacas\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_55\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-55\" style=\"width: 378px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/alpaca-group-590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-55  \" src=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/alpaca-group-590-590x360.jpg\" alt=\"Mark Spaller-Alpaca Group\" width=\"378\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-55\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On board for the alpaca study visit were (from the left) Tessa Streeter \u201914, graduate student Nicholas Warren, Yu (Bill) Tang \u201917, Taylor Watson \u201916, and Gabriella (Bria) Grangard \u201916. (Photo by Mark Spaller)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur recent visit to the Cas-Cad-Nac alpaca farm showcases how our labs can support serious undergraduate research, and on a larger scale than many labs typically do,\u201d says Spaller.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/now.dartmouth.edu\/2014\/02\/dartmouth-students-seek-antibodies-among-the-alpacas\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full story at Dartmouth Now...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you think of lab animals, alpacas don&#8217;t usually spring to mind. But Geisel&#8217;s Mark Spaller and his students have started to focus on this small South American cousin of the camel as an important part of their antibody protein studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[64,253],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-research","tag-mark-spaller","tag-undergraduates","post_format-post-format-aside","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2014\/03\/alpaca-group-590.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":988,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions\/988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}