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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,...

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...

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...

Overshooting the Bookmark: A Spike in RNA Pol II Binding at Mitotic Exit

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...

Student Groups Promote Diversity in Biomedical Sciences

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...

Catching Up with the Coordinators: A Behind the Scenes Look at the CAMB Office

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...

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...

Opening the Portal to Teaching: Jason Diaz

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...

CAMB students at the Philadelphia Science Festival

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...

Beginner’s Guide on How to Keep a Lab Notebook for Bioinformatic Analyses

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...

The Penn approach to tackling Zika virus

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...

Don’t read a mesenchymal stem cell by its gene expression levels

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...

Where Are They Now? Amy DeMicco and Matthew Harms

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...

Holy shift! Changes in poop mark disease progression

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...

A Brief History of Creation: Science and the Search for the Origin of Life

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...

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. ...

Francesca Tuazon

Aug 23, 2016

Faculty Profile

Welcoming New-CAMB-ers: A Faculty Profile on Matthew Good, Ph.D

Matthew Good, Ph.D., is a recently appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Cell and Development Biology at the Perelman School...

The fluidity of the roles of epigenetic regulators

Gleb Bazilevsky

Apr 26, 2016