Press Releases – Penn Epigenetics

19Nov

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Elizabeth A Heller receives grant from SynGAP Research Fund

Dr. Elizabeth Heller was recently awarded a research grant award from the SynGAP Research Fund to support her lab’s work in epigenetic regulation of SynGAP1-related intellectual disability. With the SynGAP Research Fund’s award to support a postdoctoral fellow in the lab, Dr. Heller and her team will work to uncover druggable targets that could be used to develop a treatment for this rare genetic disorder. Congratulations, Dr. Heller, and many thanks to the team at the SynGAP Research Fund!

Learn more about the SynGAP Research Fund here.

22Jul

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Register Now for the EMBL Neuroepigenetics Workshop

EMBL is hosting a virtual workshop on Neuroepigenetics: From Cells to Behaviour and Disease. The event is co-organized by Roberto Bonasio and you can register online here.

7May

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Golnaz Vahedi is part of a team of researchers that received a grant

Golnaz Vahedi is part of a team of researchers that received a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to investigate the impacts of childhood obesity on immune function.

Read a press release from Penn Medicine News here.

14Feb

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Vahedi Lab press release on the role of chromatin misfolding

Check out this press release from Penn Medicine News on a new paper published by the Vahedi lab on the role of chromatin misfolding in Type 1 Diabetes!

14Nov

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Work from the Berger lab on the epigenetics of social behavior in ants was recently featured

Work from the Berger lab on the epigenetics of social behavior in ants was recently featured in Penn Medicine News, the Scientist, and Science News. Congratulations to everyone involved!

1Nov

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Ben Black’s lab on advances in human artificial chromosome development

From Black Lab:

The Scientist recently featured coverage of a paper from Ben Black’s lab on advances in human artificial chromosome development. Read the article here – congratulations to everyone involved!

24Oct

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A new study published in Nature from the Berger lab

A new study published in Nature from the Berger lab explores how acetate, a byproduct of alcohol breakdown, changes the epigenetic environment of the brain. Read more here. Elizabeth Heller and Ben Garcia are also authors on the paper. Congratulations to everyone involved!

13Sep

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An article in Penn Today highlights the Penn Academy for Reproductive Sciences (PARS)

An article in Penn Today highlights the Penn Academy for Reproductive Sciences (PARS), a high school program geared at teaching high school girls about fertility, epigenetics, and other areas of reproductive health. Marisa Bartolomei leads the program, along with Jamie Shuda. The program is a joint effort between the Penn Epigenetics Institute and the Penn Institute of Regenerative Medicine and is funded by the NIH. Hearty congratulations to Marisa for being part of such an impactful program!

3Sep

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