{"id":1657,"date":"2024-12-11T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/chg\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2024-12-11T15:13:34","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T20:13:34","slug":"ashley-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/ashley-kirby\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1656\" style=\"width: 277px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1656 lazyload\" title=\"Ashley Kirby\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/chg\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/12\/Ashley_Kirby-267x300.jpg\" alt=\"Ashley Kirby\" width=\"267\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 267px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 267\/300;\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1656\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ashley Kirby<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Graduate Student<\/p>\n<p>Email: aekirby@clemson.edu<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Biosketch<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>I am originally from Gainesville, Georgia. I attended the University of North Georgia, graduating in 2018 with dual bachelor\u2019s degrees in biology and psychology. As an undergraduate, I conducted research investigating molecular recognition and selective uptake of nutritive particles during phagocytosis in <em>Tetrahymena pyriformis<\/em>. After graduation, I worked at UNG as a microbiology lab technician, and later as an academic advisor. Currently, I am a PhD candidate in the department of Genetics and Biochemistry and a member of Dr. Miriam Konkel\u2019s lab, where we study the genomic impact of transposable elements.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Research<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>My research in Dr. Konkel\u2019s lab focuses on SINE-variable number tandem repeat-<em>Alu <\/em>(SVA) elements, an ape-specific family of transposable elements, or \u201cjumping genes,\u201d that mobilize in the genome via a \u201ccopy-and-paste\u201d mechanism and have been implicated in human genetic disorders. The overall goal of my project is to leverage high quality, long-read genomic data and computational approaches to better characterize SVA elements, identify putative source elements generating new insertions, and understand overall SVA evolution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduate Student Email: aekirby@clemson.edu Biosketch I am originally from Gainesville, Georgia. I attended the University of North Georgia, graduating in 2018 with dual bachelor\u2019s degrees in biology and psychology. As an undergraduate, I conducted research investigating molecular recognition and selective uptake of nutritive particles during phagocytosis in Tetrahymena pyriformis. After graduation, I worked at UNG [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":1656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-students"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scienceweb.clemson.edu\/ihg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}