{"id":93845,"date":"2023-07-26T14:49:49","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/?p=93845"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:49:49","slug":"from-the-brink-they-fell-in-love-with-each-other-then-with-the-same-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/2023\/07\/26\/from-the-brink-they-fell-in-love-with-each-other-then-with-the-same-science\/","title":{"rendered":"From The Brink: &#8220;They Fell in Love with Each Other, Then with the Same Science&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"head\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=91947&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They Fell in Love with Each Other, Then with the Same Science&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong>The Brink; July 18, 2023<\/h4>\n<figure id=\"attachment_93844\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-93844\" style=\"width: 552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gms\/files\/2023\/07\/Ruslan-Afasizhev-and-Inna-Afasizheva-leadin-636x425.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"362\" class=\"wp-image-93844\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/07\/Ruslan-Afasizhev-and-Inna-Afasizheva-leadin-636x425.jpeg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/07\/Ruslan-Afasizhev-and-Inna-Afasizheva-leadin-1024x684.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/07\/Ruslan-Afasizhev-and-Inna-Afasizheva-leadin-768x513.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/07\/Ruslan-Afasizhev-and-Inna-Afasizheva-leadin-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/files\/2023\/07\/Ruslan-Afasizhev-and-Inna-Afasizheva-leadin.jpeg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-93844\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruslan Afasizhev (left) and Inna Afasizheva. Photo from The Brink.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span><em>The Brink<\/em> recently featured GMS faculty mentors Ruslan Afasizhev and Inna Afasizheva in an article detailing the married couple&#8217;s journey to Boston University and shared love for small RNA biology.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Afa<\/span><span>sizhev is\u00a0also BU Henry M. Goldman School of Dental Medicine professor of molecular and cell biology,\u00a0and Afasizheva is a SDM associate professor of molecular and cell biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Together, they have studied and published dozens of papers on the mechanics of mitochondrial DNA and RNA in\u00a0<em>Trypanosoma brucei<\/em>, a single-celled, disease-causing parasite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/articles\/2023\/ruslan-afasizhev-inna-afasizheva-trypanosoma-brucei\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span>Read more about their journey and research at <em>The Brink<\/em> here!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They Fell in Love with Each Other, Then with the Same Science&#8221; The Brink; July 18, 2023 The Brink recently featured GMS faculty mentors Ruslan Afasizhev and Inna Afasizheva in an article detailing the married couple&#8217;s journey to Boston University and shared love for small RNA biology.\u00a0 Afasizhev is\u00a0also BU Henry M. Goldman School of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20706,"featured_media":93844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1535,795,7154],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20706"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93848,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93845\/revisions\/93848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}