{"id":4956,"date":"2019-04-10T11:49:05","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/?post_type=campus_story&#038;p=4956"},"modified":"2019-04-10T11:49:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:49:05","slug":"marinette-campus-professor-researches-possible-link-between-environmental-exposure-to-algae-and-alzheimers","status":"publish","type":"campus_story","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/story\/marinette-campus-professor-researches-possible-link-between-environmental-exposure-to-algae-and-alzheimers\/","title":{"rendered":"Marinette Campus professor researches possible link between environmental exposure to algae and Alzheimer\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4958\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4958\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/03\/GRB_3_Marinettecampus_Renee-Richer-Photo-04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4958\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin-new\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/378\/2019\/03\/GRB_3_Marinettecampus_Renee-Richer-Photo-04-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of UW-Green Bay, Marinette Campus Professor Renee Richer, who is conducting research in Qatar which may someday help to prevent diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s. \" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4958\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UW-Green Bay, Marinette Campus Professor Renee Richer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>UW-Green Bay, Marinette Campus <a href=\"https:\/\/news.uwgb.edu\/featured\/leading-learning\/02\/21\/marinette-campus-professor-researches-possible-link-between-environmental-exposure-to-algae-and-alzheimers\/\">Professor Renee Richer\u2019s research in Qatar<\/a> may someday help to prevent diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s. Richer is studying neurotoxins found in algae blooms that seem to link a certain neurotoxin (called BMAA) to ALS, Parkinson\u2019s, and Alzheimer\u2019s. In another study, she is collaborating with Green Bay and Marinette campus faculty, as well as undergraduate researchers, to see how <a href=\"http:\/\/news.uwgb.edu\/featured\/go-green\/02\/21\/green-bay-and-marinette-campuses-team-up-to-study-chromium-6-in-drinking-water\/\">blue-green algae might be useful as a biological water filter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UW-Green Bay, Marinette Campus Professor Renee Richer\u2019s research in Qatar may someday help to prevent diseases like Alzheimer\u2019s and Parkinson\u2019s. Richer is studying neurotoxins found in algae blooms that seem to link a certain neurotoxin (called BMAA) to ALS, Parkinson\u2019s, and Alzheimer\u2019s. In another study, she is collaborating with Green Bay and Marinette campus faculty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":4958,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","institution":[111],"story_category":[],"class_list":["post-4956","campus_story","type-campus_story","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","institution-uw-green-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story\/4956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/campus_story"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/campus_story"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"institution","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/institution?post=4956"},{"taxonomy":"story_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/all-in-wisconsin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/story_category?post=4956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}