Arjun Raj awarded a Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative Human Cell Atlas Grant, “Accelerating tools and technologies for imaging approaches to perform spatial genomics on intact tissues”
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Penn Study Shows How Female Immune Cells Keep Their Second X Chromosome Shut Off
Research led by Rajan Jain and Jonathan Epstein of the Perelman School of Medicine suggests that the three-dimensional organization of DNA in the nucleus determines a cell’s ultimate destiny.
PIK professors Michael Platt and Shelley Berger are embarking on a joint research project focused on how stress affects the brain and behavior.
They discussed their burgeoning collaboration with Knowledge@Warton.
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Hao Wu of the Perelman School of Medicine has received the New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health. With this grant, the Wu lab aims to study the molecular mechanisms governing the environment-epigenome interactions in these cells by developing “oxygen-sensing” epigenome analysis and editing tools.
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Kavitha Sarma, Ph.D. NIH awarded the Director’s New Innovator Award (DP2) for her research on “Epigenetic regulation through the formation and resolution of R loops.”
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Cell Stress Response Sheds Light on Treating Inflammation-related Cancer, Aging
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Barbara Terzic, graduate student from the Zhou lab, awarded an NIH F31 NRSA, “Investigating the role of CDKL5 in the synapse”.
How Brain Develops Before Birth is Tightly Controlled by RNA Modification
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Postdoctoral Fellow, Lisa Vrooman from the Bartolomei Lab, Awarded NIH F32 Fellowship!
‘Investigation of epigenetic and morphological placental abnormalities induced by in vitro fertilization’.