Friday, July 24, 2009

Qi Xiao (YSP 2007) and Dr. Edwin Anthony's research on the cover of Molecular Cell



Former YSP Summer Focus participant, Qi Xiao (Summer 2007) and his mentor, Dr. Edwin Anthony (lab of Dr. Tom Ellenberger) recently had a paper published in Molecular Cell:
Antony E, Tomko EJ, Xiao Q, Krejci L, Lohman TM, Ellenberger T. Srs2 disassembles Rad51 filaments by a protein-protein interaction triggering ATP turnover and dissociation of Rad51 from DNA. Molecular Cell. 2009;35(1):105-115.

Please visit this link to read more about this paper and their research:
http://mednews.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/14373.html

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

YSP Summer Programs


This summer we welcomed 14 high school students and 6 high school science teachers as participants in our 2009 YSP Summer Programs:

Summer Focus Participants -
Iqra Bhatti - Roosevelt High School
Mary Chivetta - Visitation Academy
Joey Jackson - St. Charles High School
DeShaun King - East St. Louis High School
Akeem Muhammad - East St. Louis High School
Hannah Oppenheim - Parkway East High School
Aalia Rahman - Gateway High School
Charles Roy - Gateway High School
Celine St. Pierre - Metro High School
Rajiv Tarigopola - Parkway West High School
Assata Thompson - Metro High School
Kaalan Travis - Carnahan High School
Megan Wood - Washington High School
Stephenie Williams - Clyde C. Miller Career Academy

Teacher Researcher and Partnership Program -
David Allchurch - Central VPA High School
Kevin Dorn - Soldan High School
Stephanie Enrico - Roosevelt High School
Andrew Goodin - Soldan High School
Michelle Phillips - Vashon High School
Kerry Zimmerman - Metro High School

Thursday, July 9, 2009

2009 YSP Teacher and Researcher Partnership Program




Dr. Edwin Antony (Ellenberger lab) and science teacher David Allchurch, Central VPA High School, are participants in the Teacher and Research Program (TRP), a branch of the Young Scientist Program at Washington University. David is investigating how the Srs2 helicase (a protein involved in regulating the Homologous Recombination DNA Repair Pathway) unwinds DNA. Qi Xiao, a former YSP student working this summer in the Ellenberger lab, was instrumental in uncovering the mechanism of how Srs2 negatively regulates Homologous Recombination (Antony et al, Mol Cell, 2009), and is currently working on solving crystal structures of the Srs2-Rad51 protein complex.