{"id":570,"date":"2016-08-10T15:19:58","date_gmt":"2016-08-10T19:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/?page_id=570"},"modified":"2023-10-04T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:29:38","slug":"thaanyaamarasekara","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/about\/thaanyaamarasekara\/","title":{"rendered":"PEOPLE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Thaanya-Amarasekara.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-1630\" src=\"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Thaanya-Amarasekara-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Thaanya-Amarasekara-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Thaanya-Amarasekara-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Thaanya-Amarasekara-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Thaanya-Amarasekara-1536x1024.png 1536w, https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Thaanya-Amarasekara-2048x1365.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Thaanya Amarasekara<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>Graduate Student | Ohio State Biochemistry Program<\/h3>\n<p>I obtained my bachelor\u2019s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2021 from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>My undergraduate research: Use of CadC from Bacillus species isolated from an industrial effluent for biosensor construction and elucidation of possible metal tolerance mechanism of cad operon.<\/p>\n<p>After graduating, I worked as a teaching assistant in the same university until I joined OSU in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>In the Jackman lab, I am looking at the substrate preferences of two Thg1 like proteins (TLPs); Aca TLP2 and Did TLP4 by using 3\u2019 to 5\u2019 extension assay and high-throughput small-RNA sequencing approaches.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the lab I enjoy spending time with my family and friends, watching movies and cooking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thaanya Amarasekara Graduate Student | Ohio State Biochemistry Program I obtained my bachelor\u2019s degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 2021 from University of Colombo, Sri Lanka. My undergraduate research: Use of CadC from Bacillus species isolated from an industrial effluent for biosensor construction and elucidation of possible metal tolerance mechanism of cad operon. After [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":356,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-570","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1631,"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/570\/revisions\/1631"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.cbc.osu.edu\/jackman.14\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}