{"id":647,"date":"2023-11-09T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-09T10:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/?page_id=647"},"modified":"2026-01-26T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T14:18:27","slug":"manuel-blank","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/group\/past-group-members\/manuel-blank\/","title":{"rendered":"Manuel Blank"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel \">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/manuel-blank.webp\" alt=\"Manuel Blank\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source class=\"lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/manuel-blank.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Blank\" type=\"image\/jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/233\/2023\/11\/manuel-blank.jpg\" alt=\"Manuel Blank\"><br \/>\n  <\/source><\/source><\/figure>\n<h2>Profile<\/h2>\n<p>Past Member To and From Dates: May \u2013 September 2014<br \/>\nPast Member Current Position: Undergraduate student at the University of Dundee; President at Dundee University Young Researchers Association<\/p>\n<p>Some notable details of my biography are that I was trained as a mechanical engineer in Germany from 2003 to 2006 and began my academic career after that. I took a gap year 3 years later during which I taught English in China. Just after that I came to Dundee where I attended College for an HNC in Applied Sciences. The year after I entered the University of Dundee directly into second year as a Biological Sciences undergraduate student. I recently spent one semester at the National University of Singapore where my curriculum focused mostly on biochemistry and bioinformatics. For my Summer placement, I received a James Black Prize Vacational Scholarship by the College of Life Sciences which enables me to gather practical experience in the Ciulli lab for 10 weeks this summer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Profile Past Member To and From Dates: May \u2013 September 2014 Past Member Current Position: Undergraduate student at the University of Dundee; President at Dundee University Young Researchers Association Some notable details of my biography are that I was trained as a mechanical engineer in Germany from 2003 to 2006 and began my academic career [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":575,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-647","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4483,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/647\/revisions\/4483"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/alessio-ciulli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}