THE CAMB STUDENT NEWSLETTER

Dr. Skye Geherin describes herself as a scientific translator. The CAMB (Microbiology, Virology, and Parasitology) 2014 alumna and former...

When we consider the future of cancer treatment, chemotherapy pales in comparison to immunotherapy. Unlike chemotherapy, which stops or...

After spending months or years designing, performing and polishing a research project, it seems unjust to distill it down to a few...

With the constantly advancing technology landscape, it is now a necessity for researchers to evolve as well informed and trained...

Stemming from a relatively recent explosion of research, the epigenetic regulation of gene expression is now appreciated as an important...

Dr. Melike Lakadamyali joined the Penn community in early 2017 after moving her lab from the Institute of Photonic Sciences in Barcelona...

Every Friday morning, Helen C. Davies, a 93-year-old Professor of Microbiology at University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine,...

Women in science face many obstacles throughout their careers. While the proportion of women earning PhDs in the sciences has increased...

Finding the right career can be a difficult and often times stressful decision for PhD students, especially given the relative lack of...

Faculty from left to right (top photo): Valder Arruda, Craig Bassing, Kelly Jordan-Sciutto, Jean Bennett, Paul Bates, Brian Keith, Dan...

Many of us remember being taught a simplified doctrine on histone modifications: certain marks tend to appear on transcriptionally...

The ability to target abnormal genes by introducing functional copies through gene therapy holds extreme promise for the treatment of...

Sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) is a common sensory deficit, which affects 1 in 500 newborns, and can arise from etiologically diverse...

“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...

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,...

The human body has over 200 different cell types, and gene regulation is key to establishing and maintaining cell identity. During...

The Biomedical Graduate Student Association (BGSA) is a student run group that represents the interests of graduate students from all...

Researchers range from indifferent to disparaging in their impressions of journal editors. These stereotypes may stem from social media...

With its captivating wide-mouthed smile and prominent feathery headdress of gills, it is easy to adore the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum)....

Cancer research has seen a steady shift towards ‘tumor microenvironment’ driven hypotheses. Tumor cells exploit their environment to fuel...

In a run-down shack town, a fly drinks from a standing pool of water and unknowingly ingests unicellular protozoans of the genus...

It is no mystery that the path of higher education is a difficult task. For graduate students in the Biomedical Graduate Studies program,...

Hippocampal memory formation requires neuroplasticity, which is produced by the orchestrated expression of neuronal genes through...