{"id":2917,"date":"2023-08-21T07:04:51","date_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/2023\/08\/21\/skylar-wright-wins-first-place-for-best-oral-presentation-at-the-2023-graduate-student-research-day-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-21T07:04:51","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T11:04:51","slug":"skylar-wright-wins-first-place-for-best-oral-presentation-at-the-2023-graduate-student-research-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/2023\/08\/21\/skylar-wright-wins-first-place-for-best-oral-presentation-at-the-2023-graduate-student-research-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Skylar Wright wins first place for best oral presentation at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-2917\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-2917-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-2917-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2917-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><p><span>Congratulations\u00a0<\/span>to Graduate Student Skylar Wright for receiving first place for best oral presentation at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Day. Skylar is a member of Dr. Vijay Rathinam\u2019s laboratory, and her project focuses on understanding how pyroptosis--an inflammatory form of cell death--is able to cause death in unstimulated bystander cells and contribute to widespread inflammation during bacterial infections.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div id=\"pgc-2917-0-1\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-2917-0-1-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_widget_sp_image widget_sp_image panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"1\" ><h3 class=\"widget-title\"> <\/h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" height=\"200\" alt=\"Skylar Wright, Dr. Vijay Rathinam\" class=\"attachment-full\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/67\/2023\/08\/Skylar-350-x250.gif\" \/><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations\u00a0to Graduate Student Skylar Wright for receiving first place for best oral presentation at the 2023 Graduate Student Research Day. Skylar is a member of Dr. Vijay Rathinam\u2019s laboratory, and her project focuses on understanding how pyroptosis&#8211;an inflammatory form of cell death&#8211;is able to cause death in unstimulated bystander cells and contribute to widespread inflammation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1662,"featured_media":2915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-30 02:43:23","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/immunology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}