{"id":350,"date":"2019-01-15T14:59:35","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T21:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/?p=350"},"modified":"2019-01-15T15:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T22:00:05","slug":"mel-higgins-receives-the-founders-award-from-the-american-chemical-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/2019\/01\/15\/mel-higgins-receives-the-founders-award-from-the-american-chemical-society\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel Higgins receives the Founders Award from the ACS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-351 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/files\/2019\/01\/DSC_9261-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/files\/2019\/01\/DSC_9261-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/files\/2019\/01\/DSC_9261-768x509.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/files\/2019\/01\/DSC_9261-1024x678.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/files\/2019\/01\/DSC_9261-620x411.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>UBC Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow Mel Higgins received the 2019 Founders Award from the American Chemical Society Biological Chemistry Division. This award was established in memory of William P. Jencks\u2019 contributions to mechanistic enzymology and is given to an outstanding PhD student or postdoctoral fellow in biological chemistry.<\/p>\n<p>Mel presented her award lecture \u201cCharacterization of a heme-dependent N-N bond forming enzyme\u201d at the Winter Enzymes Conference in New Orleans in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UBC Chemistry Postdoctoral Fellow Mel Higgins received the 2019 Founders Award from the American Chemical Society Biological Chemistry Division. This award was established in memory of William P. Jencks\u2019 contributions to mechanistic enzymology and is given to an outstanding PhD student or postdoctoral fellow in biological chemistry. Mel presented her award lecture \u201cCharacterization of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":353,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ksryan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}