Haoyang Jiang’s paper published on-line in Genes and Development

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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Feiyue Lu, a 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 4th-8th

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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Penn State Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Alumni named to Top Young Scientist list and one of the recipients of the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Prestigious Fellowship Awards

July 25, 2017 – J. Brooks Crickard, Ph.D. was named to the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation’s Top Young Scientist List in a report from the Foundation on July 14, 2017. The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, named Crickard as one of the 18 new Damon Runyon Fellows at its spring Fellowship Award Committee…

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Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Grants Prestigious Fellowship Awards to 18 Top Young Scientists

July 14, 2017 Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation Grants Prestigious Fellowship Awards to 18 Top Young Scientists Grants totaling nearly $4.16M give early career investigators independence to pursue novel ideas New York, NY (July 15, 2017) – The Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on supporting innovative early career researchers, named 18…

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Seven Penn State Researchers named AAAS Fellows

Seven Penn State Researchers named AAAS Fellows By A’ndrea Elyse Messer November 30, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Seven Penn State faculty members have been named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the organization announced November 23, 2015. The 2015 Fellows are Leonard S. Jefferson, Evan Pugh University Professor in Physiology;…

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