We warmly welcome Janine Kwapis as a member of the CEGR faculty. Dr. Kwapis studies gene regulatory mechanisms in long-term memory combining in vivo and in vitro approaches including mouse behavior, next-generation sequencing, confocal imaging and in vivo virus-base manipulations. Dr. Kwapis is the Paul Berg Early Career Professor and an Associate Professor of Biology.
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We are excited to welcome Manyu (Mandy) Du to the CEGR faculty as of February 2025. Dr. Du studies the molecular mechanism of transcription and 3D genome organization using cutting-edge technologies including single-molecule super-resolution live-cell imaging and advanced lattice light sheet imaging. Her postdoctoral research with Dr. Ibrahim Cisse at the Max Planck Institute of…
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Hearty congratulations to Shaun Mahony on being named Eberly Distinguished Senior Scholar in Genomics! You can learn more about Shaun’s research at the Mahony Lab web site.
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We are thrilled to share the news that Lu (Lucy) Bai has been selected as the Verne M. Willaman Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology! Dr. Bai has made tremendous contributions to our understanding of how chromatin influences gene regulation and she and her lab have developed important new techniques for deciphering the mechanisms of…
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Our NIH Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (EGR) Predoctoral Training Program has been renewed for 5 years. The $1.7 million program, led by Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Joseph Reese, will support up to 28 students and is funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), with…
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Hearty congratulations to Scott Showalter on being named the Assistant Dean for Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs in the Penn State Eberly College of Science! Scott previously served as Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Chemistry, where he worked to establish the Graduate Student Association and to introduce professional development opportunities into the training…
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Congratulations to Scott Showalter on his 2024 Milton S. Eisenhower Award for Distinguished Teaching! This highest teaching award at Penn State recognizes individuals with a career-long commitment to teaching excellence and is named after the 13th president of Penn State and the brother of U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower.
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Congratulations to Alan Brown on his award of the GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Graduate Fellowship from the Penn State Eberly College of Science in partnership with the College of Medicine and the Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences for the 2024-2025 academic year! Alan is jointly mentored by Manuel Lllinás and Shaun Mahony.
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Congratulations to Joe Reese on being named Distinguished Professor of Penn State for his outstanding academic contributions including research, teaching and mentoring!
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The Penn State Huck Institutes Genomics Research Incubator run by Cheryl Keller provides access to specialized and custom genomics and epigenomics assays including ATAC, CUT&RUN and CUT&Tag sequencing and chromatin conformation assays. More information can be found in the Genomic Research Incubator web site and in this press release.
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