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Where Are They Now: Wenny Lin

“What do you want to do with your PhD?” Both dreaded and inescapable, this question seems to crop up at every gathering of family, old...

Lexy Stanley and Somdutta Mukherjee

Aug 27, 2017

Scientific Conference Survival Guide

Going to a scientific conference can be exciting and informative, but also stressful and overwhelming. Since conferences are vital...

Camille Syrett

Aug 27, 2017

Faculty Profile

Welcoming New-CAMB-ers: A Faculty Profile on Andrew E. Vaughan, Ph.D

As a graduate student in the lab of gene therapy pioneer Dr. Dusty Miller at the Fred Hutchison Cancer Research Center, Andy was at the...

Lexy Stanley

Aug 27, 2017

EBF2 Puts the “Brown” in Brown Fat

Fat has a bad reputation for its negative contribution to a host of diseases such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and obesity....

Gleb Bazilevsky

Aug 27, 2017

Where Are They Now: David Garbe

Outreach programs are essential for sparking young students’ interest in scientific research. Spreading the knowledge, importance, and...

Updates on Graduate Student Unionization

Gleb Bazilevsky

Jul 8, 2017

Updates on Graduate Student Unionization

Part I. GET-UP Constitutional Referendum The last GET-UP general meeting of the Spring semester was held on May 9, 2017. The meeting...

Iryna Shakhmantsir

May 20, 2017

Collaborative Sciences are the Wave of the Future: A Profile on Center for Engineering Mechanobiolog

The NSF-funded Center for Engineering Mechanobiology is a new science and technology center (STC) at Penn launched this past fall. STCs...

Gleb Bazilevsky

May 20, 2017

Graduate Student Unionization and CAMB: Perspectives on the Collective Bargaining Movement

Since March of this year graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania have come to hear the truth about the state of their work...

Katherine Palozola

May 20, 2017

Where Are They Now: Karla Leavens

Traditionally, the format of the Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) consists of two years of medical school, approximately four...

I’m the Boss: The Role of Transcription Factors in Motor Neuron Growth and Targeting

Lexy Stanley

May 20, 2017

I’m the Boss: The Role of Transcription Factors in Motor Neuron Growth and Targeting

Transcription factors mediate many essential processes. The role of transcription factors in mediating neuronal growth, function, and...

Bite me! Developing a potent Zika virus vaccine at Penn

Neha Pancholi

May 19, 2017

Bite me! Developing a potent Zika virus vaccine at Penn

In the midst of a global health emergency, many look to researchers and health care providers to develop and administer treatments or...

Where Are They Now: Jamie Lemon and Alexandra Bryson: Clinical Microbiology Fellows

Annie Chen

May 19, 2017

Where Are They Now: Jamie Lemon and Alexandra Bryson: Clinical Microbiology Fellows

Clinical microbiology is the application of research for the prevention, direct diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases. Clinical...

Arwa Abbas and Annie Chen

Apr 25, 2017

Addressing Implicit Bias in Academia

While many insist that science is a meritocracy, this is often not the experience for certain populations. Who is viewed as the “best...

Arwa Abbas, Katherine Palozola, and Neha Pancholi

Apr 3, 2017

Sweet as Pie

The CAMB Student Newsletter is about more than celebrating the scientific accomplishments of our students – we are about uniting the CAMB...

Iryna Shakhmantsir

Feb 14, 2017

Why 2016 Wasn’t So Bad in CAMB

You may have been actively trying to erase all traces of 2016 from your memory, but the CAMB Student Newsletter would like to remind you...

Lindsey Weed

Feb 14, 2017

Riding Through the Winter

Winter is once again upon us, but that doesn’t mean that you have to retire your bike while you await the arrival of spring. A few...

Partial Cross-Protection of Canine Influenza Vaccines

Annie Chen

Feb 14, 2017

Partial Cross-Protection of Canine Influenza Vaccines

Influenza A viruses, the causative agent of the annual flu, infect birds and some mammals. The viruses are categorized into different...

Francesca Tuazon

Feb 14, 2017

Broadening the Penn Medicine Community: A Profile on Vice Dean Eve Higginbotham and the Office of I

Launched in August 2013, the Office of Inclusion and Diversity is a relatively new addition to Penn Medicine that supports, evaluates,...

Lexy Stanley

Feb 14, 2017

Where Are They Now: Geoffrey Hannigan

Is the “traditional postdoc” actually traditional? Most graduate students who want to pursue the academic route aim to complete a...

Getting to Know Your Program Chair: Valder Arruda, GTV

Lindsey Weed

Feb 14, 2017

Faculty Profile

Getting to Know Your Program Chair: Valder Arruda, GTV

Dr. Valder Arruda began his career in Sao Paulo, Brazil as a clinician specializing in hematology and hemotherapy. His first job was to...

En Sweet: The Subtleties of Glucose Utilization and Compensation

Gleb Bazilevsky

Feb 14, 2017

En Sweet: The Subtleties of Glucose Utilization and Compensation

Metabolic flexibility and rewiring is a distinctive feature of the cellular stress response and oncogenesis. The staggering breadth of...

Neha Pancholi

Feb 14, 2017