Burgers named Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry
Peter M.J. Burgers, PhD, has been named the Marvin A. Brennecke Professor of Biological Chemistry at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
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News highlights for January 13, 2011
The New Republic Jeff Smith: A rising political star until the FBI started asking about his past 1/13/2011 Missouri State Senator Jeff Smith, a thirty-something academic turned politician, was the brightest young star in the Missouri Democratic Party until a campaign violation upended his career and sent him to jail. As a Washington University political […]
Deep genomics: Scientists probe the epigenome
A Washington University in St. Louis team is participating in the modENCODE project, a massive ongoing effort to map all the elements in model organisms that affect whether genes are silenced or expressed. The work supports the more complex ENCODE project, which is tasked to map the same elements in the human genome. While the genome is the same in every cell, each cell type expresses a different set of genes. In people, moreover, roughly 95 percent of the genome is silenced. Together the projects will “put flesh on the bones” of the Human Genome Project, says team leader Sarah C.R. Elgin.
News highlights for January 12, 2011
Bloomberg Businessweek Obama in Arizona means moment to alter an image of ‘detachment’ 01/12/2011 In Arizona today, President Barack Obama will confront a moment of national pain that presents him with a chance to establish a new bond with the American people. Obama “has to walk a careful line in which he’s not accusing, but […]
Raymond L. Barber, project manager in facilities, 68
Raymond L. Barber, project manager in Facilities, Planning & Management since 1992, died unexpectedly Dec. 26, 2011, in Urbana, Ill. He was 68. Barber managed or was involved in many important Danforth Campus building projects during his time at WUSTL, including the Knight Center, Whitaker Hall and the installation of a glass dome on the Anheuser-Busch Hall courtyard.
WUSTL to honor legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
“The Past is Alive … The Work is Not Yet Done” is the theme of Washington University in St. Louis’ 24th annual celebration honoring Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 17, in Graham Chapel on the Danforth Campus. Events will aslo take place at the School of Medicine, the Brown School and the School of Law.
News highlights for January 11, 2011
CQ Today Politicians plan strategies aimed at changing filibuster rules in Congress 1/05/2011 In an attempt to avoid a knock-down partisan battle over proposals to overcome Senate filibusters with a simple majority vote, Democrats proposed changes Wednesday that would take more-modest steps to reduce the minority’s power to slow or block Senate action. “They are […]
New method takes snapshots of proteins as they fold
Using a sophisticated version of the stroboscopic photography a pioneering photographer used in 1877 to prove that a horse takes all four hooves off the ground when it gallops, Michael L. Gross, PhD, professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences and of medicine and immunology in the School of Medicine, catches proteins in the act of folding.
Hunter, professor emeritus of developmental biology, 94
F. Edmund Hunter Jr., professor emeritus of developmental biology, died Sunday, Jan. 2, 2011, of natural causes in St. Louis. He was 94.
One year after Haiti earthquake, Brown School public health expert Iannotti continues work on the ground
On Jan. 12, 2010, Lora Iannotti, PhD, nutrition and public health expert at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis, was in Leogane, a seaside town 18 miles west of Port au Prince, Haiti, working with local officials on improving the health of Haitian children. That’s when a catastrophic 7.0 earthquake struck the poverty-stricken country. Its epicenter, Leogane. Iannotti survived, but some 230,000 perished. Haiti was devastated; an estimated 3 million were affected by the earthquake in a country already known as the poorest in the Western hemisphere. Since last January, Iannotti, assistant professor at the Brown School, has returned to Haiti a number of times to continue her work on undernutrition and disease prevention in young children. She is back in Haiti again, one year later.