{"id":7486,"date":"2022-09-14T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/?p=7486"},"modified":"2022-09-14T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T14:00:11","slug":"x-raying-the-origins-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/2022\/09\/14\/x-raying-the-origins-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"X-raying the origins of life"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/xray-core-lab.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"289\" src=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/xray-core-lab-300x289.png\" alt=\"A photo of Associate Professor Jim Schiffbauer and Assistant Research Professor Tara Selly in their lab.\" class=\"wp-image-7487\" srcset=\"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/xray-core-lab-300x289.png 300w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/xray-core-lab-1024x986.png 1024w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/xray-core-lab-768x739.png 768w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/xray-core-lab-1536x1479.png 1536w, https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/xray-core-lab.png 1884w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Associate Professor Jim Schiffbauer and Assistant Research Professor Tara Selly in their lab.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Mizzou professors are <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2022\/to-a-single-micron-and-beyond\/\">doing fascinating work<\/a> to understand the origins of life \u2013 from a worm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jim Schiffbauer, associate professor, and Tara Selly, assistant research professor, are using the Zeiss micro-CT in the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.missouri.edu\/x-ray-microanalysis\/\">X-Ray Microanalysis Core facility<\/a> to analyze the oldest known gut from a worm that lived more than 550 million years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I visited their lab in the Department of Geological Sciences along with College of Arts &amp; Science Dean Cooper Drury, Associate Dean for Research Tim Glass and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs John Middleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to their research, Profs. Schiffbauer and Selly educate and train students ranging from high schoolers to postdoctoral fellows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m so proud of them and their work, which is a strong example of <a href=\"https:\/\/showme.missouri.edu\/2021\/mizzouforward-aims-to-invest-1-5-billion-to-enhance-research-educational-missions\/\">MizzouForward<\/a>, our $1.5 billion long-term investment strategy to expand and sustain research excellence at MU.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014 Mun<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Mizzou professors are doing fascinating work to understand the origins of life \u2013 from a worm. Jim Schiffbauer, associate professor, and Tara Selly, assistant research professor, are using the Zeiss micro-CT in the X-Ray Microanalysis Core facility to analyze the oldest known gut from a worm that lived more than 550 million years ago. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7486\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/president.missouri.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}