{"id":90,"date":"2019-06-27T22:57:38","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T02:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/?p=90"},"modified":"2019-07-01T15:49:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T19:49:38","slug":"its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/2019\/06\/27\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s beginning to look a lot like&#8230;Japan!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>BY Georgia Babb<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IRESUVM Participant<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong>It has been about two weeks since arriving in Yonezawa\u2026although it feels like I\u2019ve been here a month. Yoshida-sensei, our gracious host, has brought the IRES group to many beautiful places and many more restaurants. Here are just a few of the amazing things I have experienced so far\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627222921-1-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-97\" width=\"366\" height=\"496\" \/><figcaption>My favorite picture from the Kamo Aquarium which is most well-known for the extensive jellyfish collection.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627222944-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627222944-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627222944-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627222944-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627222944-451x300.jpg 451w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627222944.jpg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>This is one of the many different colored ponds we saw at&nbsp;Goshikinuma (Five Colored) Lakes in the Bandai Asahi National Park.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/1561688870716-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" width=\"390\" height=\"527\" \/><figcaption>Here is me in the lab transferring the pre-gel solution into the mold. Once this solution is treated with UV light it can be placed in water to make a hydrogel.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/files\/2019\/06\/20190627223003-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-96\" width=\"397\" height=\"536\" \/><figcaption>Here is me holding the final hydrogel up, very nervously\u2026this was purely to show that it was completely transparent. Thank you to Sazzadur Rahman for showing me this technique.&nbsp;<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>There hasn\u2019t been a moment I don\u2019t feel welcome here and not a single night where I can\u2019t find someone to go to dinner with. Whether it\u2019s in the lab or out on the town, there is no shortage of things to do. I\u2019m very excited to see what the next 6 weeks have in store!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY Georgia Babb IRESUVM Participant &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;It has been about two weeks since arriving in Yonezawa\u2026although it feels like I\u2019ve been here a month. Yoshida-sensei, our gracious host, has brought the IRES group to many beautiful places and many more restaurants. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/2019\/06\/27\/its-beginning-to-look-a-lot-like-japan\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5644,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/mfuris\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}