{"id":2920,"date":"2025-05-19T11:41:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T15:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/?p=2920"},"modified":"2025-05-19T15:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:06:59","slug":"gpgg-member-spotlight-thomas-featured-in-boston-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/2025\/05\/19\/gpgg-member-spotlight-thomas-featured-in-boston-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"GPGG Student Spotlight: Thomas Featured in Boston Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"177\" data-end=\"457\" class=\"\">We\u2019re excited to share that GPGG student Thomas Liontis, from the Grishok lab, was recently featured in <em data-start=\"253\" data-end=\"270\">Boston Magazine<\/em> for his work with the <strong data-start=\"293\" data-end=\"318\">Boston Worm community<\/strong>, a local group dedicated to fostering public appreciation for science through the study of <em data-start=\"410\" data-end=\"422\">C. elegans<\/em>, a tiny but mighty model organism.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>&#8220;This article is really what the C. elegans community is all about. While some of us are goal-oriented and others curiosity-driven, almost every new discovery or tool development in cell biology, physiology, or generally in science has exponential ramifications in our future,&#8221;<\/em> Thomas comments on the article, underscoring his passion for science and the importance of public engagement.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"936\" class=\"\">Read the full article <a data-start=\"713\" data-end=\"794\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_new\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonmagazine.com\/news\/c-elegans-worms-people-who-love-them\/\">here<\/a> to learn more about how the Boston Worm community is bringing science to life for non-scientists and making <em data-start=\"903\" data-end=\"915\">C. elegans<\/em> cool in the process!<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"691\" data-end=\"936\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/gpgg\/files\/2025\/05\/TL2025-399x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"399\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2927 alignleft\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2025\/05\/TL2025-399x300.png 399w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2025\/05\/TL2025-768x577.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/files\/2025\/05\/TL2025.png 865w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to share that GPGG student Thomas Liontis, from the Grishok lab, was recently featured in Boston Magazine for his work with the Boston Worm community, a local group dedicated to fostering public appreciation for science through the study of C. elegans, a tiny but mighty model organism. &#8220;This article is really what the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23236,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1907],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2920"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2930,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2920\/revisions\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/gpgg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}