Congratulations to Prof. Amy Ikui on her recent publication titled “Cdc6 is sequentially regulated by PP2A-Cdc55, Cdc14, and Sic1 for origin licensing in S. cerevisiae” published in eLiFe Journal (https://elifesciences.org/articles/74437). Prof. Ikui’s laboratory studies DNA replication and cell division using S. cerevisae as a model system, with the goal of understanding the molecular mechanism of cell growth control. She aims to understand how cell cycle misregulation is linked to genome instability, which is relevant to tumorigenesis and cancer in higher eukaryotes. Also involved in this work is Dr. Jasmin Philip – a graduate student at the CUNY Graduate Center who successfully defended her Ph.D. in Biochemistry. For those interested in Prof. Ikui’s work please visit her webpage: https://amyikuilab.com.
