{"id":997,"date":"2020-03-05T15:44:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T22:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/?page_id=997"},"modified":"2021-12-10T14:11:44","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T21:11:44","slug":"christiana-frost","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/lab-members\/christiana-frost\/","title":{"rendered":"Christiana Frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-998 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"173\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-scaled.jpg 1441w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-169x300.jpg 169w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-576x1024.jpg 576w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-768x1365.jpg 768w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-864x1536.jpg 864w, https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2020\/03\/IMG_20200305_142759-1152x2048.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 173px) 100vw, 173px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MSc Student<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Masters thesis involves work on the endocrine system of early vertebrates, specifically of the Pacific hagfish (<i>Eptatretus stoutii<\/i>).\u00a0 I am interested in characterizing the stress steroid profile of this hagfish by identifying their primary stress steroid through stress tests and analytical chemistry approaches.\u00a0 My research also delves into the examination of the steroid synthesis pathway of this organism.\u00a0 I will examine stress steroid synthesis enzymes using a phylogenetic approach, isolate tissues to determine the steroidal tissue, and examine binding kinetics of the corticosteroid receptor of hagfishes.\u00a0 This research will help broaden the understanding of the hagfish endocrine system and its placement in the tree of life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSc Student My Masters thesis involves work on the endocrine system of early vertebrates, specifically of the Pacific hagfish (Eptatretus stoutii).\u00a0 I am interested in characterizing the stress steroid profile of this hagfish by identifying their primary stress steroid through stress tests and analytical chemistry approaches.\u00a0 My research also delves&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/lab-members\/christiana-frost\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"parent":128,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-997","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=997"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/997\/revisions\/1231"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/goss\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}