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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Grace Usher selected for award at 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society

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 Olivia and Julia – Eberly Undergraduate Researcher grant recipients

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, 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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CEGR 2018 Fall Retreat

#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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1st cohort in newly NIH funded EGR predoctoral training program

Congratulations to the first cohort of participants in the newly funded Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (EGR) predoctoral training program funded by NIH! Victoria Bonnell Roberta Dollinger Catherine Douds Jose Espinola-Lopez Jordan Krebs James Lee TJ Russell Grace Usher  

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ASBMB Symposium 2018

ASBMB Symposoim entitled “Transcription Regulation: Chromatin and RNA polymerase II” October 4th-8th 2018 Dr. Joeseph Reese, Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and member of the Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, is co-organizing the 8th biennial ASBMB symposium entitled; “Transcription Regulation: Chromatin and RNA polymerase II.” The Symposium is to be held in early October…

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Douglas Baumann Recipient 2018 Fred Wedler Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award

April 19th – Douglas Baumann, a recent graduate of Penn State’s Biochemistry, Microbiology and Molecular Biology Program at Penn State, was honored with the 2018 Fred Wedler Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award. Baumann is also a member of Gilmour Lab in the Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (CEGR).  He describes being surprised when he received notice on…

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