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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The CEGR is composed of ten laboratories with over 70 students and staff. We aim to provide a conducive learning environment for making cutting edge discoveries on fundamental mechanisms of eukaryotic gene regulation. Most labs share common space to promote a community of interactions. Academic Environment The research interests of all CEGR members are focused on…
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Timothy Kunz honored as the recipient of the 2017 Fred Wedler Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation Award July 10, 2017 – Timothy Kunz, a recent graduate of Penn State’s Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Program, was honored as the recipient of the 2017 Fred Wedler Outstanding Undergraduate Dissertation Award. Kunz received notification on April 26, 2017. Each year,…
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How to make a motor neuron Mechanisms underlying direct programming of stem cells could eventually lead to cell-replacement therapies Sam Sholtis December 8, 2016 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A team of scientists has uncovered details of the cellular mechanisms that control the direct programming of stem cells into motor neurons. The scientists analyzed changes that…
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November 28, 2016 – Lila is a third year graduate student in Dr. Shaun Mahony’s lab. This week she presented her work aimed at 3-D genome reconstruction from kilo base-pair resolution Hi-C data. The knowledge of a three-dimensional chromatin structure is important for studying many biological processes at the molecular level such as transcription regulation,…
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2016 CEGR Fall Retreat Every year, the PIs leading the labs in The Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (CEGR) invite their staff and families to a Fall retreat. Our faculty host a Center-wide activity outside of normal collaborative lab work and the Megameeting on Tuesdays. This year’s event will be hosted at the Civil Engineering Lodge on Lake…
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2015 CEGR Fall Retreat Every year, the PIs leading the labs in The Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (CEGR) invite their staff and families to a Fall retreat. Our faculty host a Center-wide activity outside of normal collaborative lab work and the Megameeting on Tuesdays. This year’s event will be hosted at Shaver’s Creek on Friday, October 16th…
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The principal investigators for the Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation, specifically Dr. Mahony, Dr. Bai, Dr. Wang, Dr. Gilmour, Dr. Reese, Dr. Pugh, Dr. Hardison, Dr. Llinas, Dr. Showalter, and Dr. Tan, all collaborate to have a Fall outing. They provide for this event each Fall in order to have the newer graduate students, new…
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Opening Reception On October 5, 2009, the Penn State Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation opened its doors in newly renovated space on the 4th floor of North Frear Laboratory. To mark this occasion, renown biochemist Dr. Ali Shilatifard from the Stowers Institute for Medical Research delivered a special lecture on “Lessons Learned from Yeast about…
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