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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...
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Neha Pancholi
Feb 14, 2017
Where Are They Now: Margaret Fleetwood
Most students begin graduate school planning to pursue a traditional academic career path. As the years pass, some maintain this desire,...
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cambnewsletter
Feb 6, 2017
Pie a PI Fundraiser
Hello CAMB community, To celebrate Pi day (3.14) this year the CAMB Student Newsletter is hosting a fundraiser for the Children’s...
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Alexandra Stanley
Nov 7, 2016
Your Leader Steve: The Man Behind DSRB
Dr. Stephen DiNardo is the chair of DSRB (Developmental, Stem, & Regenerative Biology), but to the students in DSRB, he is so much more....
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Annie Chen
Nov 7, 2016
Book Review: When Breath Becomes Air
As human beings, we all grapple with the soul-searching question of what makes life meaningful. In his memoir When Breath Becomes Air,...
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Arwa Abbas
Nov 7, 2016
CAMB New Student Orientation Events
The newest CAMB students were welcomed with gusto both from the administration and upperclassmen. A variety of orientation activities...
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Siddharth Kishore
Nov 7, 2016
Where Are They Now? Steve Santoro
Astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle...
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Katherine Palozola
Nov 7, 2016
Overshooting the Bookmark: A Spike in RNA Pol II Binding at Mitotic Exit
As early as the 19th century, Walther Flemming and other biologists knew that a complex of genetic material and proteins—what we now...
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Arwa Abbas and Francesca Tuazon
Nov 7, 2016
Student Groups Promote Diversity in Biomedical Sciences
An inclusive and diverse community is the cornerstone for an adaptable, creative, and sustainable academic center. The Penn community...
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Ellie Tarlow
Nov 7, 2016
Catching Up with the Coordinators: A Behind the Scenes Look at the CAMB Office
When was the last time that you went to the CAMB office? If you can run a PCR faster than you can recall your last visit, it’s time to...
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Iryna Shakhmantsir
Nov 3, 2016
Crash Test for B7-H4 CARs
The University of Pennsylvania is a leader in chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell research and in translating basic research findings...
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Arwa Abbas
Nov 2, 2016
Opening the Portal to Teaching: Jason Diaz
How do you transition from being a graduate student sitting in the audience of a lecture hall to becoming a professor presenting at the...
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Kelsey Johnson
Aug 23, 2016
CAMB students at the Philadelphia Science Festival
The Philadelphia Science Festival is a week-long event hosted by the Franklin Institute that focuses on engaging the public in science...
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Katherine Palozola
Aug 23, 2016
Beginner’s Guide on How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses
More biologists, myself included, are using computational approaches to analyze large data sets and now wrestle withfinding the best...
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Lindsey Weed
Aug 23, 2016
The Penn approach to tackling Zika virus
The first confirmed Zika virus (ZIKV) infections in Brazil were promulgated by the Pan American Health Organization in May 2015. By the...
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Hayley Hanby
Aug 23, 2016
Don’t read a mesenchymal stem cell by its gene expression levels
One of the first successful tissue replacement therapies was artificial skin, developed by Drs. Ioannis Yannas and John Burke in 1979....
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Camille Syrett
Aug 23, 2016
When Tumor Cells Fight Back
The immune system possesses the essential ability to detect and destroy abnormal cells, such as cancer cells. Recently, the critical...
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Siddharth Kishore
Aug 23, 2016
Where Are They Now? Jessica Bryant
There is a noticeable trend in recent times of science graduates pursuing alternative careers in science, to an extent where one might...
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Kelsey Speer
Aug 23, 2016
Teaching experience at Penn
When I came to graduate school, I was excited to learn about both scientific research and science teaching. I specifically chose my...
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Iryna Shakhmantsir
Aug 23, 2016
Where Are They Now? Renske Erion
Crafting a non-academic career path for a typical CAMB graduate student can be a complex balancing act of juggling never-ending hours of...
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Hayley Hanby
Aug 23, 2016
Where Are They Now? Amy DeMicco and Matthew Harms
Amy DeMicco and Matthew Harms—CB and DSRB alumni, respectively—both work for AstraZeneca in Sweden. Amy and Matthew bring interesting...
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Neha Pancholi
Aug 23, 2016
Holy shift! Changes in poop mark disease progression
Animal models of disease are crucial to understanding disease progression in humans. In a recent article published in the American...
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Virzhiniya Feltzin
Aug 23, 2016
A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life
How did life first appear on Earth? What can the origin of life tell us about life’s meaning? In their new book “A Brief History of...
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Katherine Palozola
Aug 23, 2016
Where Are They Now? Aleksandra Nall
Aleksandra (Leksa) Nall was a GGR student in Amita Sehgal’s lab, where she used small molecules to study sleep regulation in Drosophila. ...
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