We held our annual retreat outdoors at the Tussey Mountain Resort on Oct 17, 2021. After a morning of great discussion in the poster session, we enjoyed lunch followed by the Marshmallow Challenge and a trivia quiz. It was great to see all of us in person again after a long year of virtual meetings.
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Hearty congratulations to Shaun Mahony on his promotion to Associate Professor with tenure! Dr. Mahony has made groundbreaking contributions in the computational mining of genome-wide data for how transcription factors determine cell fate. Dr. Mahony’s promotion will be made official on July 1, 2021.
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Victoria Bonnell won Best Poster Award at the XXX International Molecular Parasitology Meeting held on September 15-19, 2019. The is the second year in a row that Tori, a graduate student in Manuel Llinás’ lab, has been honored with this award.
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Climbing the ladder Schreyer Scholars gain valuable lab experience while helping to develop new DNA plasmids Jeff Rice May 31, 2017 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Turner Pecen didn’t have a lot of lab experience when he came to Penn State as a freshman in 2013. The project he spent much of his college career working…
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Penn State DNA ladders: inexpensive molecular rulers for DNA research Sam Sholtis May 26, 2017 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — New, license-free DNA ladders will allow researchers to estimate the size of fragments of DNA for a fraction of the cost of currently available methods. A research team of undergraduate students led by Penn State Professor…
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Song Tan awarded Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement June 18, 2015 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Song Tan, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology at Penn State, has been selected to receive the 2015 Penn State Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement in the Life and Health Sciences. Established in 1980, the award recognizes scholarly…
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McGinty honored with Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists March 23, 2015 Robert McGinty, a Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow, in the laboratory of Penn State Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Song Tan, has been presented with the Damon Runyon Dale F. Frey Award for Breakthrough Scientists. McGinty is the first Penn State scientist…
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Structural biology: Enzyme–chromatin complex visualized Jürg Müller & Christoph W. Müller Affiliations Corresponding authors Nature 514, 572–573 (30 October 2014). doi:10.1038/514572a Published online 29 October 2014 Article tools PDF Citation Rights & permissions Article metrics The structure of an enzyme that is bound to a nucleosome — a protein complex around which DNA is wrapped —…
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First detailed picture of a cancer-related cell enzyme in action on a chromosome October 29, 2014 A landmark study published in the Oct. 30, print edition of the Nature provides new insight into the function of an enzyme related to the BRCA1 breast cancer protein. The study by a team at Penn State University is the first…
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