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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Congratulations to Manuel Llinás on being named the Ernest C. Pollard Professor in Biotechnology in recognition of his outstanding research contributions, teaching and service. More information can be found in the press release.
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Congratulations to Shaun Mahony on his 2022-23 Daniel R. Tershak Memorial Teaching Award! This award for teaching excellence was made to Dr. Mahony for his outstanding instruction of bioinformatics and computational biology courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
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Congratulations to Tori Bonnell on her Penn State Graduate Student Excellence in Mentoring Award! Tori was cited for her exemplary mentoring of undergraduates, graduate students and postdocs. Tori also conducts K-1 outreach through the Graduate Women in Science organization.
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We are thrilled to share the news that Marina Feric will join the CEGR faculty in Jan 2023. Dr. Feric is interested in biomolecular condensates in health and disease. Her investigation of mitochondrial genome assembly via phase separation in Tom Mistelli’s lab at the NCI suggests principles for phase separation in genome organization. Dr. Feric…
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