Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation alum, Bede Portz Ph.D., wins $200,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the BrightFocus Foundation to study RNA phase transitions in neurodegenerative disease. Click here to learn about Dr. Portz and a summary of his research!
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Let us congratulate Scott Showalter Ph.D., of the Eberly College of Science, was promoted to full professor as of July 1st!! Scott is a Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Penn State University.
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Please join us in congratulating the following community member for their outstanding contributions to our educational mission. Tori Bonnell, from Dr. Llinas’ Lab is the 2019 recipient of the Paul M. Althouse Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award!! Each year the department recognizes the outstanding teaching of a BMMB graduate assistant by presenting the Althouse Teaching…
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Congratulations to Rob McGinty, alumnus of Song Tan’s lab, on his Pew Scholar and Searle Scholar new investigator awards!
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Congratulations to Ryan Santilli, Yoshitaka Shibata and John Williamson III in Song Tan’s lab for winning the “University Fellowships and Phi Kappa Phi Peter T. Luckie Award for Outstanding Research by a Junior” at the 2019 Penn State Undergraduate Exhibition held April 17, 2019.
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Congratulations to Graduate student Haoyang Jiang from the Reese lab. His paper entitled “Ccr4-Not maintains genomic integrity by controlling the ubiquitylation and degradation of arrested RNAPII” on the role of Ccr4-Not is removing RNAPII from DNA lesions came out on-line in Genes and Development April 4th. http://genesdev.cshlp.org/content/early/2019/04/02/gad.322453.118.short?rss=1 Read the news article here.
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Grace Usher was just selected for the Student Research Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society. She won the student poster award in the Intrinsically Disordered Protein category for her poster “Characteristics of the Binding Interaction Between SPOP and Pdx1.” Pdx1 is a transcription factor that is essential for control of pancreatic beta cell…
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Congratulations to Frank Pugh’s Undergraduate student researchers on receiving Eberly College of Science’s Office of Science Engagement award! http://scienceengagement.psu.edu/undergraduate-research/ Julia is a Sophomore at Penn State majoring in Biochemistry. Julia is new to Pughlab and still exploring the world of epigenetics to determine her future research. Olivia is a Junior at Penn State majoring in…
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Feiyue Lu wins poster award at at the 2018 ASBMB Symposium on Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin and RNA Polymerase II Feiyue Lu, an MCIBS graduate student in Dave Gilmour’s lab, won the BBA-Gene Regulatory Mechanisms Poster Award at the 2018 ASBMB Symposium on Transcriptional Regulation by Chromatin and RNA Polymerase II held in Snowbird UT October…
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#CEGRRetreat2018 is a success again this year. Check out the photos of the great talks and posters that were presented! Looking forward to an excellent year of science collaborations. Great kickoff! Fall 2018 CEGR Retreat! Getting to know the new members of the labs in the Center, and meeting faculty in other labs. Talks from the…
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