{"id":799,"date":"2025-09-18T11:38:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/?p=799"},"modified":"2025-09-18T11:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T18:38:04","slug":"amelie-andreas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2025\/09\/18\/amelie-andreas\/","title":{"rendered":"#71: Bags of Chemistry with Amelie Andreas &#8217;24, Biochem and Molecular Biology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"579\" height=\"651\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/09\/Amelie-Andreas-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/09\/Amelie-Andreas-photo.jpg 579w, https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/files\/2025\/09\/Amelie-Andreas-photo-267x300.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 579px) 100vw, 579px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Amelie started out in the biology department at Reed because she wanted to study bacteria and living things, but then she got a chance to start learning from the biochemists on the faculty. They helped her build the bridge from chemistry to life, which led her to switch her major from biology to biochemistry and molecular biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amelie was also the second student producer for Burn Your Draft, working with us from 2021\u201322, and it was a delight to get to talk to her. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reed community members can read Amelie&#8217;s thesis, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rdc.reed.edu\/i\/9e05e465-0d21-4fb0-9de1-e6d4d2bf1349\">MntR: The Mastermind of Manganese Ion Homeostasis<\/a>\u201d online in the Electronic Theses Archive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/soundcloud%253Atracks%253A2169603564&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true\"><\/iframe><div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\" title=\"Burn Your Draft\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">Burn Your Draft<\/a> \u00b7 <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/burnyourdraft\/amelie-andreas\" title=\"#71: Bags of Chemistry with Amelie Andreas &#x27;24, Biochem and Molecular Biology\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\">#71: Bags of Chemistry with Amelie Andreas &#x27;24, Biochem and Molecular Biology<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amelie started out in the biology department at Reed because she wanted to study bacteria and living things, but then she got a chance to start learning from the biochemists on the faculty. They helped her build the bridge from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/2025\/09\/18\/amelie-andreas\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[46,45],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast-episode","tag-biochemistry","tag-biology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":807,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.reed.edu\/burn-your-draft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}