{"id":8691,"date":"2015-06-10T11:54:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2015-06-10T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:54:09","slug":"caplin-89-summer-research-led-to-science-career","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/2015\/06\/10\/caplin-89-summer-research-led-to-science-career\/","title":{"rendered":"Caplin \u201989 \u2013 summer research led to science career"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/06\/brian-caplin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8692\" alt=\"brian caplin\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/06\/brian-caplin-300x285.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/06\/brian-caplin-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/06\/brian-caplin.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>Brian Caplin PhD \u201989<\/strong>\u00a0 \u201cstumbled into scientific research while on his way to medical school and a career as an ophthalmologist. In the summer between his junior and senior year at Wabash College, he worked in his professor\u2019s lab, researching the genetics of an algae.\u201d\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/utahbusiness.com\/articles\/view\/on_the_job_1\">Click here<\/a> to read more about where his campus summer research has led in his career path.<\/p>\n<p>Brian is founder and Chief Science Officer at <a href=\"http:\/\/fluoresentric.com\/\">Fluoresentric, Inc.<\/a>, a company that develops new techniques and processes, including \u201cXCR. \u201c\u00a0 After Wabash, Brian earned a PhD at Indiana University School of Medicine, Biochemistry and molecular biology and then studied molecular genetics at Ohio State University.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo courtesy of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Fluoresentric, Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Caplin PhD \u201989\u00a0 \u201cstumbled into scientific research while on his way to medical school and a career as an ophthalmologist. In the summer between his junior and senior year at Wabash [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/06\/brian-caplin.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8693,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/8693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/alumninews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}