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Manpreet and Marie and the cover of Biochemistry

The crystals that Manpreet and Marie grew led to some exciting findings associated with a biochemical pathway. The rest, as they say, led to the cover of Biochemistry! See the Newsworthy page for more.

Meet the new Project CRYSTAL students!

We are excited to welcome Gwen, Malaika, Melissa, and Sarah to the lab for the year. Students began the year on Monday, August 29th with their first meeting. Click here to meet the new students, and be sure to check the Learn Along with Young Scientists page to see what the students are doing each week!

 

 

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4/11 Edgewood College Student Research Conference

Manpreet and Marie at Edgewood College, April 2011

In April, Manpreet and Marie presented their research at a poster session at Edgewood College's research conference. They explained what they had learned over the course of the past two years as members of Project CRYSTAL, and talked about being listed as authors on a paper published in a peer-reviewed science journal! Congratulations!

 

1/11 Poster showing

A poster showing the work completed with Project CRYSTAL year one was presented at the 22nd Enzyme Mechanisms Conference meeting in Florida.

10/10 – 12/10 Biochemistry cover

The cover of Biochemistry

For three months (October-December 2010) the cover of the American Chemical Society's peer-reviewed journal Biochemistry featured crystals grown by Marie and Manpreet. The results from the crystals that they grew were very exciting for the laboratory. According to Professor Holden: "We had no idea that this C-methyltransferase contained a zinc ion, but there it was in the electron density map. We had no idea that the middle and C-terminal domains would be structurally similar, but yes they were, thereby suggesting that this methyltransferase arose via gene duplication! And in the 20 some odd years that I have been working on enzymes involved in carbohydrate metabolism, I have never seen a nucleotide-linked keto sugar bound in an active site." View the link to the cover here.

 

8/2/10 C & E News story

Manpreet with the crystals that she helped grow

Chemical and Engineering News (C&EN) published a story about Manpreet's and Marie's work in a recent paper published in Biochemistry.

5/10 NSF Exemplary Projects

The NSF chose Project CRYSTAL as one of its examples of Exemplary Projects for National Lab Day (May 12th). Click here to check it out.

1/10 NSF Broader Impact Highlight

Project CRYSTAL is an example of a successful broader impact

The National Science Foundation (NSF) highlighted Project CRYSTAL due to the interesting educational and outreach activities involved in the broader impact portion of this program. See the brochure to the right.

12/09 NSTA article

The National Science Teachers Association published an article on Project CRYSTAL in the December 2009 NSTA Reports. Click here to read the article.

12/09 Wisconsin Week article

Project CRYSTAL was featured in a news article from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Click here to read about it.

 

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