{"id":11135,"date":"2012-06-05T15:20:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T19:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/?p=11135"},"modified":"2013-09-05T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T20:55:55","slug":"x-ray-crystallography-demonstration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/2012\/06\/05\/x-ray-crystallography-demonstration\/","title":{"rendered":"High School Students Learn About X-Ray Crystallography"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Dr.
Dr. Jeff Bacon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Professor<\/a>
Professor Karen Allen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Professor Karen Allen<\/a> and Dr. Jeff Bacon, staff crystallographer of the Chemical Instrumentation Center<\/a> (CIC), demonstrated the power of X-ray crystallography to local area high school students as part of an American Crystallographic Association<\/a> (ACA) outreach program.\u00a0 The scientists hosted two groups.\u00a0 In March, 12 students from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School<\/a> and their teacher, Aaron Mathieu visited; and in May, 15 students from Prospect Hill Academy<\/a> and their teacher, Katie Boiteau visited. Both groups had grown their own crystals of lysozyme, prepared in their school laboratory or at CityLab<\/a>, a fully equipped biotechnology laboratory in the BU School of Medicine that is available to Middle and High School students, educators, and other groups.<\/p>\n

Each group learned about the history and theory of X-ray crystallography in the determination of protein structure from Professor Karen Allen<\/a>, one of the world’s leading crystallographers. \u00a0 After a one-hour classroom discussion, the students brought their crystal samples to the CIC’s X-ray laboratory for a practical demonstration of the experiment with Dr. Bacon. The students examined their crystals under a microscope, and one crystal from each group was mounted on the instrument for a unit cell determination.<\/p>\n

\"Prof.
Prof. Karen Allen lectures on the basics of X-ray crystallography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Interested students have been invited to the ACA’s annual meeting, to be held in Boston at the end of July, where they will have the opportunity to present a poster and to learn more about structural biology. The program is an outreach activity of the ACA Young Scientists’ Special Interest Group<\/a>, and was supported by a donation of crystallization supplies from Hampton Research<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additional photos can be seen on the BU Chemistry Flickr site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Students
Students are shown the X-ray instrument by Dr. Jeff Bacon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Students<\/a>
Students who visited along with their teacher Aaron Mathieu (far right), Dr. Bacon and Prof. Allen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor Karen Allen and Dr. Jeff Bacon, staff crystallographer of the Chemical Instrumentation Center (CIC), demonstrated the power of X-ray crystallography to local area high school students as part of an American Crystallographic Association (ACA) outreach program.\u00a0 The scientists hosted two groups.\u00a0 In March, 12 students from Acton-Boxborough Regional High School and their teacher, Aaron […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1497,1846,997,9110,9120],"tags":[9124,9219,5288,1357,945],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11135"}],"version-history":[{"count":32,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12849,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11135\/revisions\/12849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/chemistry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}