Marisa Bartolomei shared her thoughts with the Smithsonian.com on a new advancement in mouse breeding. The headline of the article states, “Scientists Break the Rules of Reproduction by Breeding Mice From Single-Sex Parents” https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/scientists-break-rules-reproduction-breeding-mice-single-sex-parents-180970517/
Marisa Bartolomei, PhD, has been appointed the Perelman Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology. Marisa obtained her PhD degree from John Hopkins University School of Medicine, and completed her postdoctoral fellowship at Princeton University, where she discovered the first imprinted gene. She joined the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at Penn in 1993, and has a secondary appointment in the Department of Genetics. Marisa holds or has held multiple leadership positions at Penn, including Co-Director of the Epigenetics Program […]
Dr. Arndt Siekmann, Associate Professor, recently joined the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Please join us in welcoming him!
Congratulations to Celeste Simon, one of four faculty members from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania that have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine(NAM), one of the nation’s highest honors in biomedicine. https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2018/october/four-penn-faculty-members-elected-to-national-academy-of-medicine
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Dr. Patrick Seale was recently featured in The Philadelphia Inquirer for his groundbreaking work on the relationship between brown fat and white fat and their relationship to obesity. Read the full article here.