{"id":4480,"date":"2018-05-31T15:47:39","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T19:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/ebuckhor\/?page_id=4480"},"modified":"2018-09-26T16:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T20:43:24","slug":"nsf-funding-for-williams","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/along-the-walk\/nsf-funding-for-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"NSF Funding for Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College Research Associate Professor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/internet2.trincoll.edu\/facProfiles\/Default.aspx?fid=1004449\">Terri Williams<\/a>\u00a0recently was awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the embryonic development of\u00a0<em>Tribolium<\/em>, better known as the flour beetle. Williams <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trincoll.edu\/NewsEvents\/NewsArticles\/Pages\/WilliamsNSF.aspx\">received an NSF grant in 2013<\/a>\u00a0to study segmentation in arthropods\u2014a diverse group of animals that includes flies, shrimp, crabs, and spiders\u2014whose basic body plan consists of several repeated segments.<\/p>\n<p>Williams will study the\u00a0<em>Tribolium<\/em>\u2019s \u201csegmentation clock,\u201d which refers to the oscillating expression of genes that drive segment formation in the embryo. In her past research, Williams and her students found that the <em>Tribolium<\/em> segmentation clock oscillated at varying rates. The discovery of this anomaly underlies her latest research project, \u201cRegulation of the\u00a0<em>Tribolium\u00a0<\/em>Segmentation Clock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This NSF grant was provided to Williams in collaboration with Lisa Nagy, a professor at the University of Arizona. A portion of the funding will be used to give Trinity students the opportunity to go to Arizona to conduct summer research.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 677px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/files\/2018\/09\/Nicole-Duan-18-Sara-Khalil-15-Terri-Williams-crop-horiz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4531\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/files\/2018\/09\/Nicole-Duan-18-Sara-Khalil-15-Terri-Williams-crop-horiz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"667\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Trinity College Research Associate Professor Terri Williams, right, joins Nicole Duan \u201918 and Sara Khalil \u201915 in fall 2017 at a symposium where Duan presented a poster.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Williams, a Trinity faculty member since 2010, focuses on providing each of her students with individual attention and comprehensive training when she works with them on research projects. Nicole Duan \u201918 has been working with Williams since her sophomore year. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t train all of her students the same way. She makes adjustments according to how each student works in the lab,\u201d Duan said of Williams. \u201cFor me, every time I accomplish something, she gives me more responsibility. I feel like I have learned a lot over time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trinity College Research Associate Professor\u00a0Terri Williams\u00a0recently was awarded a three-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to investigate the embryonic development of\u00a0Tribolium, better known as the flour beetle. Williams received an NSF grant in 2013\u00a0to study segmentation in arthropods\u2014a diverse group of animals that includes flies, shrimp, crabs, and spiders\u2014whose basic body plan &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/along-the-walk\/nsf-funding-for-williams\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;NSF Funding for Williams&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"parent":1466,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5031,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4480\/revisions\/5031"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/reporter-spring2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}