Linda Zhou, a grad student in the Phillips-Cremins lab, wins the Saul Winegrad award for 2021 best thesis for Penn GCB. Congratulations Linda!
Anna Kiseleva, postdoc in the Epstein lab, is the recipient of an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship for her grant entitled Hdac3 loss induces changes in the chromatin organization leading to cardiac failure associated with a high-fat diet. Congratulations Anna!
Wonho Kim, postdoc in the Jain lab, is the recipient of an AHA Postdoctoral Fellowship for his grant entitled BRD4-mediated genome folding in smooth muscle cell differentiation. Congratulations Wonho!
Paula Agudelo Garcia (postdoc in the Berger lab, grant co-mentored by E. John Wherry) is the recipient of an NRSA F32 Fellowship to study how metabolism regulates the epigenetic landscape in T cell exhaustion. Congratulations!
Kiara Rodriguez-Acevedo, who attended the SUIP program last summer in the Korb lab and will be joining Penn as a CAMB graduate student this fall, was awarded the NSF graduate research fellowship. Congratulations Kiara!
Dr. Michael Guo, postdoctoral research fellow in the Cremins lab, is awarded an NIH R25 physician-scientist research fellowship. Congratulations!
Gabor Egervari, a postdoc in the Berger lab, is the recipient of a K99/R00 transition award from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study how alcohol affects epigenetic-metabolic regulation in the brain. Congratulations!
Balint Kacsoh, a postdoc in the Berger lab, took second place in the Annual Biomedical Postdoctoral Symposium poster presentation contest. Congratulations Balint!
The January 2021 edition of the Canadian Journal of Zoology features a photo of a leaf cutter ant taken by Balint Kacsoh, a postdoc in the Berger lab, on the cover. Congratulations Balint!
Marco Carpenter, a postdoctoral fellow who will be joining the Heller lab in June 2021, received a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship for Academic Diversity at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Welcome and congratulations!