Past trainees of CEGR reunite at the Summer Symposium on chromatin and Transcription. From left to right Bede Portz (Gilmour), Arnob Dutta (Reese), Tom Owen-Hughes (Workman), Brooks Crickard (Reese), Rob McGinty (Tan), Ho Sung Rhee (Pugh), Jian Li (Gilmour).
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Joseph Reese Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and member of the Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation was appointed as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Current Opinion in Genetics and Development. The journal publishes timely reviews and opinions on articles published within the past two years on the topics of cancer genomics, genome architecture and expression, molecular…
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CEGR faculty member Scott Showalter has been awarded two new grants to support gene regulation research at Penn State. Dr. Showalter has received a new grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop 13 C direct-detect nuclear magnetic resonance experiments that will define the impact of protein phosphorylation and methylation on structure and interactions…
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The Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation will host the 38th Penn State Summer Symposium in Molecular Biology on the topic of “Chromatin and the Epigenetic Regulation of Transcription” from July 30 to August 2, 2019.
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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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