{"id":1707,"date":"2022-02-23T16:33:32","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2022-02-23T16:33:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-23T16:33:34","slug":"student-spotlight-ben-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/news\/student-spotlight-ben-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Spotlight: Ben Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
We asked Master’s of Microbial Biotechnology (MMB) student Ben Jones a few questions to get to know him better!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Science explains things that would otherwise be magic: making gas from thin air, valuable pharmaceuticals in egg whites, or selectively destroying cancer cells in a complex living environment. It is amazing. Teachers from high school and college showed me revelation after revelation regarding the applications of science. A favorite quote of mine is from Dr. Gang Hua: ‘Biotechnology gives life more.'”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Bioproduction, or using microbes to produce molecules\/compounds, is my favorite application of biotech. Manipulating microbes often gives us efficient and sustainable products: biopesticides that have lower toxicity profiles, wide ranges of secondary metabolites like citric acid in ‘fake’ OJ, or native plant extracts like artemisinin (an important antimalarial).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“In order:
1. climate change remission
2. counteracting antibiotic resistance
3. water security”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The students involved in the program! Everyone has each other’s back and does a great job supporting fellow students. There’s real solidarity here! Shout out to Billy Marx, current 2nd year MMB!”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We went to Hanging Rock State Park and camped for 1 night (2 days). We hiked all around the trails, including the main points of interest (hanging rock and the lake). It was extremely cold, but everyone took it like champions. The weather was clear, so the views during the day were sublime. I think huddling by the fire literally and figuratively brought us together: many funny stories were exchanged, and the stars were staggeringly beautiful.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Being able to say ‘Go Pack!’ without being mean, and the free expression tunnel.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I want to be involved in business development for biotechnology companies, and perhaps even found a company one day”<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I went to the University of Georgia in Athens, GA for my undergraduate degree. I was into research and did a fair amount in 3 labs. These different labs focused on ruminant microbiology, biocatalysts and genomics.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n “For fun I like to either be out in nature on backpacking trips and hiking, or doing some urban appreciation by shredding on my rollerblades.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n We asked 2nd year MMB student Ben Jones a few questions about himself and his time in the program to get to know him better!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":1711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","category-students","category-uncategorized"],"displayCategory":null,"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1717,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/units.cals.ncsu.edu\/master-of-microbial-biotechnology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What is your favorite part of being a student at NC State?<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
What would you like to do once you graduate? <\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Where were you before coming to NC State? <\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Tell us about you: What do you do for fun?<\/strong><\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n