{"id":12687,"date":"2022-08-15T09:03:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/?p=12687"},"modified":"2022-08-15T09:03:18","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T13:03:18","slug":"elizabethtown-college-school-of-science-adds-teaching-and-research-postdoctoral-associate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2022\/08\/15\/elizabethtown-college-school-of-science-adds-teaching-and-research-postdoctoral-associate\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabethtown College School of Science Adds Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Associate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr. Grant Walby
Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Associate<\/p><\/div>\n

Elizabethtown College\u2019s School of Science recently welcomed Dr. Grant Walby to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as the School\u2019s first-ever Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Associate.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Walby’s project is supported by AC Baugher Professor of Chemistry Dr. James MacKay’s <\/span>National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant,<\/span><\/a> “Nucleobase-Modified PNA for <\/span>Sequence Selective Triple-Helical Recognition of Non-Coding RNA.”\u00a0 As a team member on this <\/span>international collaborative project,<\/span><\/a> Dr. Walby will be developing new tools for biotechnology that allow for the sequence-specific recognition of ribonucleic acids – a major biochemical player in biology that affects virus transmission, gene regulation, and other crucial biological processes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

He will also be teaching courses in the department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and supervising undergraduate research. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis position offers the unique opportunity for me and other members of our campus community to mentor a young scientist and future faculty member,\u201d MacKay said. \u201cI\u2019m especially grateful to the NSF for funding, and the support from Elizabethtown College administration to make this opportunity possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Walby comes to Etown following a Graduate Research Assistant position at the University of Texas at Austin w<\/span>here he recently completed his dissertation under the direction of <\/span>Dr. Stephen F. Martin<\/span> in the area of synthetic organic chemistry and drug design. He earned his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry with a specialization in synthesis from UT Austin in May 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to join Etown and to be able to work on such an exciting project,\u201d Dr. Walby said. \u201cI look forward to working with everyone both in and out of the classroom and am grateful to both the College and the NSF for this experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Interested in studying Chemistry at Etown? The in-depth program includes foundational and advanced coursework in the five traditional subdisciplines in chemistry: analytical, biochemistry, inorganic, organic and physical.\u00a0Learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College\u2019s School of Science recently welcomed Dr. Grant Walby to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry as the School\u2019s first-ever Teaching and Research Postdoctoral Associate.\u00a0 Dr. Walby’s project is supported by AC Baugher Professor of Chemistry Dr. James MacKay’s National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant, “Nucleobase-Modified PNA for Sequence Selective Triple-Helical Recognition of Non-Coding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":12688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1126,1123,642,197,1350],"class_list":["post-12687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","tag-biochemistry","tag-chemistry","tag-department-of-chemistry","tag-elizabethtown-college","tag-etown","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/140"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12687"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12697,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12687\/revisions\/12697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}