Lojain will be spending her summer performing research in the Green lab as a member of Siteman Cancer Center’s Diversity in Cancer Research Program (DiCR). We are excited to have her in lab full-time where she will be working on exciting DNA and RNA editing projects in the lab. Glad to have her in the lab with us this summer!

With all of our recent accomplishments, the Green lab braved the open waters of Post-Dispatch lake with the help of Forest Park’s Boathouse to celebrate the amazing work done in recent months. We had a blast taking paddle boats out on the water, and were well behaved throughout our journey. No paddlers thought we were actually playing bumper boats (Jess). Please enjoy photos from our most recent expedition

Congratulations David! Following in the footsteps of his second favorite lab member (RAD), David has been accepted into the Cancer Biology graduate program at Washington University’s School of Medicine. We are excited for him to stay in the WashU family and hopes he visits here at the Green Lab as he starts the next steps in his career!

Join us in congratulating our very own Rachel DeWeerd on being selected to receive a 2023 National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship for a budding biochemistry project in the lab. We are so proud of this accomplishment!

We joined investigators from across the globe in Palms Springs, CA for the 4th annual International Conference on Base Editing Enzymes and Applications - Deaminet 2023…

Please join us in congratulating Rachel DeWeerd on acing her qualifying exam (QE). The lab put up some fun decorations during her exam as we had zero doubts she would not be passing. In typical Rachel fashion, she was immediately setting up an experiment in tissue culture following passing her QE. We are very proud of all her hard work and preparation, and are excited to see this project progress. Congrats again Rachel!

This past week, the Green lab decided to swap our traditional green for the color blue as the St. Louis Blues faced off against the Carolina Hurricanes at the annual Hockey Fights Cancer night. It was many of our lab members’s first Blues hockey game, and we had a blast cheering on the home team. Unfortunately, our cheers were insufficient with helping our team secure the victory as the St. Louis Blues feel to the Hurricanes with a final score of 4-6.

Join us in congratulating Jess on becoming one of the first ever students in Cancer Biology program history to successfully propose their thesis. We are immensely proud of your hard work and are eager to see the results of your project.

We are delighted to announce and welcome the Green Lab’s newest member, Thi Tran. She is joining the lab after graduating from Truman State University this past May where she earned a degree in Biology. Thi will develop her skills at the bench while simultaneous acting as our very own resident bioinformatician. We are excited to have Thi join the lab!

It is a bittersweet time in the Green Lab as we say our goodbyes to our research extraordinaire Ava Hansen as she begins her medical studies. She has been with the lab for the past three years, beginning her career as an undergraduate researcher and transitioning into a research technician as a post-bacc. She became an invaluable member of the Green Lab driving multiple projects and providing immense value to our culture. We are deeply saddened to see her leave, but are beyond excited for her journey in becoming an amazing medical doctor at the Drexel University College of Medicine. We are all wishing Ava the absolute best as she commences the next phase of her life. She will always have a home in the Green Lab. Thank you Ava.

We are excited to share the news that Rachel DeWeerd has decided to rejoin the Green Lab as a graduate student in the Cancer Biology department. Please join us in welcoming Rachel back to the lab!

Check out our newest publication here !

Our fantastic research dream team, Ava and David, presented their current work on how loss of the SMC5/6 complex sensitizes leukemia cells to APOBEC3A activity at the Siteman Cancer Center Research Symposium poster session….

Riding our trusting steeds (the Metro) the Green lab went on an outing to Mastermind Escape Room in St. Louis and took on the fun “Castle” themed escape room! With supreme ingenuity and creativity…

The Green lab’s latest publication can be found in EMBO reports. Congratulations to everyone that contributed to this project in which a novel interaction between the CCT chaperonin complex and APOBEC3A was identified.