{"id":1179,"date":"2016-09-23T11:40:48","date_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/?p=1179"},"modified":"2016-09-23T11:45:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-23T15:45:57","slug":"brandon-crowe-defends-his-phd-thesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/2016\/09\/23\/brandon-crowe-defends-his-phd-thesis\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Crowe defends his PhD thesis!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Crowe, BS <em>Magna Cum Laude<\/em>, defends his thesis in the Ohio State Biochemistry Program, &#8220;Protein-Protein and Protein-Nucleic Acids Interactions Important for Catalytic Activity and Recruitment of Viral Genomes to Host Chromatin&#8221;, to earn a PhD from the Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations Brandon!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1180\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1180\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1180\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/2016\/09\/23\/brandon-crowe-defends-his-phd-thesis\/img_0983\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?fit=3072%2C2304&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3072,2304\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;3.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot A560&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1249995490&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;11.759&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;80&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Brandon Crowe, PhD 2016\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Brandon Looks Forward&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?fit=710%2C533&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"wp-image-1180 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?resize=710%2C533&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Brandon Looks Forward\" width=\"710\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?w=1420&amp;ssl=1 1420w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/IMG_0983.jpg?w=2130&amp;ssl=1 2130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 710px) 100vw, 710px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1180\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brandon Looks Forward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Crowe, BS Magna Cum Laude, defends his thesis in the Ohio State Biochemistry Program, &#8220;Protein-Protein and Protein-Nucleic Acids Interactions Important for Catalytic Activity and Recruitment of Viral Genomes to Host Chromatin&#8221;, to earn a PhD from the Ohio State<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7sxod-j1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1364,"url":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/foster.281\/2017\/09\/08\/eric-danhart-defends-his-phd-thesis\/","url_meta":{"origin":1179,"position":0},"title":"Eric Danhart defends his PhD thesis!","author":"Mark Foster","date":"September 8, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Congratulations Eric! 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