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Professor of Biology in Arts & Sciences
Expertise: school science programs
Bio:
A highly respected developmental biologist, Sarah C.R. Elgin has spearheaded a drive in St. Louis to share the Washington University science faculty expertise with area elementary and secondary school science programs. She organized the Washington University/University City Science Education Partnership in 1989. This brought the expertise of many Washington University scientists to elementary and secondary schools to bolster the science being taught. She secured large grants from NSF and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to develop curricula and teach innovative and 'hands-on' lessons to young people to ensure a new generation of scientists. This includes continual funding from HHMI for outreach and undergraduate education programs since 1992.
WUSTL Contact Information:
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| Address: | One Brookings Drive
Campus Box 1229
St. Louis, MO 63130
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Education:
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B.A. in Chemistry at Pomona College
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Ph.D. in Biochemistry at California Institute of Technology
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Mass production
Biologist offers WUSTL program as way to incorporate genomics into curricula
July 31,
2007 -- The next generation of consumers will be the true beneficiaries of the promise of genomics. But how will they make informed choices in a world resplendent with genomics products, including tools to predict disease and the engineered drugs to treat those diseases?
The answer, says Sarah C.R. Elgin, Ph.D., WUSTL professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, is more genetics and genomics at every level of American education.
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Little tykes
Biologists find pathway to gene silencing
Sept. 7,
2006 --
Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have made an important breakthrough in understanding a pathway plant cells take to silence unwanted or extra genes using short bits of RNA. Basically, they have made it possible to see where, and how, the events in the pathway unfold within the cell, and seeing is believing, as the old saying goes. Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., Washington University professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and his collaborators have described the roles that eight proteins in Arabidopsis plants play in a pathway that brings about DNA methylation, an epigenetic function that involves a chemical modification of cytosine, one of the four chemical subunits of DNA. More...
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Take it easy
Epigenetics viewed as soft inheritance
Aug. 3,
2006 --
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| Richards has observed the inheritance of epigenetic factors in plants. |
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Eric Richards, Ph.D., professor of biology at Washington University in St. Louis, writing in the May issue of Nature Reviews Genetics, analyzes recent and past research in epigenetics and the history of evolution and proposes that epigenetics should be considered a form of soft inheritance, citing examples in both the plant and mammalian kingdoms.
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The big sleep
Protein found that silences genes
May 4,
2006 --
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| Olga Pontes & Craig Pikaard |
| The protein HDA6 shows up as a red stain in this Arabidopsis leaf cell nucleus. |
A team of researchers, including biologists at Washington University in St. Louis, has discovered the key role one protein plays in a major turn-off — in this case, the turning off of thousands of nearly identical genes in a hybrid plant. Studying the phenomenon of nucleolar dominance, in which one parental set of ribosomal genes in a hybrid is silenced, Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., Washington University professor of biology in Arts & Sciences and colleagues have identified the protein HDA6 as an important player in the silencing. More...
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No teacher left behind
Teachers work to meet no Child Left Behind demands
Sept. 15,
2004 --
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| Photo by David Kilper |
| St. Louis teachers gather at WUSTL to compare notes. |
At Washington University in St. Louis, teachers from five school districts are working with science and math education faculty in an effort designed to align curriculum to the NCLB standards and to improve instruction. Their work is supported by $6.5 million from the National Science Foundation, through funding from NCLB.
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