Where Are They Now: Skye Gehrin
Dr. Skye Geherin describes herself as a scientific translator. The CAMB (Microbiology, Virology, and Parasitology) 2014 alumna and former...
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Lindsey Weed
Nov 27, 2018
A New Experimental System for Investigating Tumor Heterogeneity Reveals Biomarkers to Predict Immuno
When we consider the future of cancer treatment, chemotherapy pales in comparison to immunotherapy. Unlike chemotherapy, which stops or...
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Arwa Abbas
Aug 25, 2018
Disseminating Your Dissertation: CAMB Student Publications
After spending months or years designing, performing and polishing a research project, it seems unjust to distill it down to a few...
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Kanika Jain
Aug 25, 2018
Penn Center for Innovation
With the constantly advancing technology landscape, it is now a necessity for researchers to evolve as well informed and trained...
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Lindsey Weed
Aug 25, 2018
Tet1: A Regulator of DNA Methylation and Imprinting During Development
Stemming from a relatively recent explosion of research, the epigenetic regulation of gene expression is now appreciated as an important...
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Hannah Kolev
Aug 25, 2018
Welcoming New-CAMB-ers: A Faculty Profile on Melike Lakadamyali, Ph.D.
Dr. Melike Lakadamyali joined the Penn community in early 2017 after moving her lab from the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona...
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Huanjia Zhang
Aug 25, 2018
Helen Davies: An Infectious Passion for Teaching, 50 years and Counting
Every Friday morning, Helen C. Davies, a 93-year-old Professor of Microbiology at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine,...
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Somdutta Mukherjee
Aug 25, 2018
Experiences and Advice from Successful Women in Science
Women in science face many obstacles throughout their careers. While the proportion of women earning PhDs in the sciences has increased...
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Siddharth Kishore
May 28, 2018
Penn Pathfinders: Guiding PhD students to Achieve their Career Goals
Finding the right career can be a difficult and often times stressful decision for PhD students, especially given the relative lack of...
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Ewa Stypulkowski
May 28, 2018
A pi(e) for a P.I.
Faculty from left to right (top photo): Valder Arruda, Craig Bassing, Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Jean Bennett, Paul Bates, Brian Keith, Dan...
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Clarissa Rous
May 28, 2018
Gradient-seq: Seeking Better Insight into Chromatin States
Many of us remember being taught a simplified doctrine on histone modifications: certain marks tend to appear on transcriptionally...
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Camille Syrett
May 28, 2018
Focusing in on Novel Gene Therapies for Optic Neuritis
The ability to target abnormal genes by introducing functional copies through gene therapy holds extreme promise for the treatment of...
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Iryna Shakhmantsir
Mar 1, 2018
No Alternatives to Proper Inner Ear Development
Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a common sensory deficit, which affects 1 in 500 newborns, and can arise from etiologically diverse...
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Ewa Stypulkowski
Mar 1, 2018
Welcoming New-CAMB-ers: A Faculty Profile on Shawn C. Little, PhD.
“Why get up in the morning and fight for grant money and all this? We get to see things that no human has seen before and learn stuff...
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Sylvia Stankov
Mar 1, 2018
Where Are They Now: Samantha Falk
Dr. Samantha Falk, CAMB (G&E) 2016 alumnus and former student of Dr. Ben Black, loves her new job. She learns about cutting-edge science,...
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Annie Chen
Mar 1, 2018
Mitotic Transcription may Help Maintain Cell Identity
The human body has over 200 different cell types, and gene regulation is key to establishing and maintaining cell identity. During...
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Somdutta Mukherjee
Mar 1, 2018
Getting to Know Your Friendly Neighborhood BGSA
The Biomedical Graduate Student Association (BGSA) is a student run group that represents the interests of graduate students from all...
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cambnewsletter
Mar 1, 2018
Pie a PI Fundraiser
Greetings CAMB, To celebrate Pi day (3/14) the CAMB Student Newsletter is hosting our second annual ‘Pie a PI’ fundraiser for the...
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Arwa Abbas and Camille Syrett
Nov 28, 2017
Letters from an Editor
Researchers range from indifferent to disparaging in their impressions of journal editors. These stereotypes may stem from social media...
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Camille Syrett
Nov 28, 2017
Lots and Lots of Axolotls
With its captivating wide-mouthed smile and prominent feathery headdress of gills, it is easy to adore the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)....
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Kanika Jain
Nov 28, 2017
Stromal Virions Add Another Dimension to the Tumor Microenvironment
Cancer research has seen a steady shift towards ‘tumor microenvironment’ driven hypotheses. Tumor cells exploit their environment to fuel...
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Clarissa Rous
Nov 28, 2017
Uncovering the Leishmania-cal Plot of Dysbiosis and Inflammation
In a run-down shack town, a fly drinks from a standing pool of water and unknowingly ingests unicellular protozoans of the genus...
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Jessica Phan
Nov 28, 2017
A Discussion on Mental Health: Pursuing Higher Education with Higher Support
It is no mystery that the path of higher education is a difficult task. For graduate students in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program,...
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Lindsey Weed
Aug 27, 2017
Connecting Neuronal Dots: Linking Metabolism to Synaptic Restructuring in Memory Formation
Hippocampal memory formation requires neuroplasticity, which is produced by the orchestrated expression of neuronal genes through...
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