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Marisa Bartolomei Shares her thoughts On a New Advancement in Mouse Breeding
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/
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Marisa Bartolomei Receives Endowed Professorship
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 […]
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Welcome, Arndt Siekmann!
Dr. Arndt Siekmann, Associate Professor, recently joined the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology. Please join us in welcoming him!
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Celeste Simon Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
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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IRE1α RNase-dependent lipid homeostasis promotes survival in Myc-transformed cancers
Xie H, Tang CH, Song JH, Mancuso A, Del Valle JR, Cao J, Xiang Y, Dang CV, Lan R, Sanchez DJ, Keith B, Hu CC, Simon MC. J Clin Invest. 2018 Apr 2;128(4):1300-1316. doi: 10.1172/JCI95864. Epub 2018 Feb 26. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29381485
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Regulatory element in fibrin triggers tension-activated transition from catch to slip bonds
Litvinov RI, Kononova O, Zhmurov A, Marx KA, Barsegov V, Thirumalai D, Weisel JW. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Aug 21;115(34):8575-8580. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1802576115. Epub 2018 Aug 7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30087181
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A Cyfip2-Dependent Excitatory Interneuron Pathway Establishes the Innate Startle Threshold
Marsden KC, Jain RA, Wolman MA, Echeverry FA, Nelson JC, Hayer KE, Miltenberg B, Pereda AE, Granato M. Cell Rep. 2018 Apr 17;23(3):878-887. doi: 10.1016/j.celrep.2018.03.095. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29669291
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Controllable protein phase separation and modular recruitment to form responsive membraneless organelles
Schuster BS, Reed EH, Parthasarathy R, Jahnke CN, Caldwell RM, Bermudez JG, Ramage H, Good MC, Hammer DA. Nat Commun. 2018 Jul 30;9(1):2985. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-05403-1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6065366/
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Dysregulation of the epigenetic landscape of normal aging in Alzheimer’s disease.
Nativio R, Donahue G, Berson A, Lan Y, Amlie-Wolf A, Tuzer F, Toledo JB, Gosai SJ, Gregory BD, Torres C, Trojanowski JQ, Wang LS, Johnson FB, Bonini NM, Berger SL. Nat Neurosci. 2018 Apr;21(4):497-505. doi: 10.1038/s41593-018-0101-9. Epub 2018 Mar 5. Erratum in: Nat Neurosci. 2018 Mar 19;:. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29556027