{"id":17675,"date":"2022-04-21T08:28:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T12:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/?p=17675"},"modified":"2026-01-07T15:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T20:13:00","slug":"congratulations-to-bob-varelas-for-his-promotion-to-professor-of-biochemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/2022\/04\/21\/congratulations-to-bob-varelas-for-his-promotion-to-professor-of-biochemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Bob Varelas on his promotion to Professor of Biochemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Congratulations to<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/profiles\/bob-xaralabos-varelas\/\"><span> Bob Varelas <\/span><\/a>on his promotion to Full Professor of Biochemistry!<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/profiles\/bob-xaralabos-varelas\/bv2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-16775\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/biochemcellbio\/files\/2016\/07\/BV2-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/files\/2016\/07\/BV2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/files\/2016\/07\/BV2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/files\/2016\/07\/BV2-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/files\/2016\/07\/BV2.jpg 559w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><span>Research in the Varelas lab is focused on gaining insight into molecular mechanisms that direct cell fate decisions during animal development, homeostasis, and disease. The lab is particularly interested in understanding the functions of the transcriptional regulators YAP and TAZ (YAP\/TAZ), which are key effectors of Hippo pathway signaling, and uses molecular and genetic approaches to study these factors across various aspects of biology.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to Bob Varelas on his promotion to Full Professor of Biochemistry! Research in the Varelas lab is focused on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[104,100,4657],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17677,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17675\/revisions\/17677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/biochemcellbio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}