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Marisa Bartolomei and Celeste Simon elected to the national academy of sciences, joining three other CDB faculty members
Marisa Bartolomei and Celeste Simon have been elected into the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Cell and Developmental Biology now has five NAS members, all of whom are women. Please read this article for more information on their research and […]
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Ken Zaret Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Ken Zaret, Ph.D., has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Ken is known for discovering the first “pioneer factor”, which are transcription factors that can directly bind condensed chromatin. The concept of a pioneer factor, as formulated by Ken, is that only a small subset of […]
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Shelley Berger & Celeste Simon Elected As Fellows of the AACR Academy Class of 2021
The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) today announced its newly elected class of Fellows of the AACR Academy, and it includes Shelley Berger and Celeste Simon. Congratulations! The mission of the AACR Academy is to recognize and honor distinguished scientists whose scientific contributions have propelled significant innovation and progress against […]
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Rajan Jain receives 2021 Seldin~Smith Award for Pioneering Research
The American Society for Clinical Investigation (ASCI) is pleased to announce Rajan Jain, MD, as the recipient of the 2021 Donald Seldin~Holly Smith Award for Pioneering Research. Dr. Jain will receive an unrestricted award of $30,000 to advance his academic efforts and will deliver a scientific talk at the 2022 […]
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Mustafa Mir joins the CDB faculty as Assistant Professor
Dr. Mir’s laboratory will develop and apply new imaging technologies, including light-sheet microscopy to understand and manipulate the interplay between nuclear organization, transcriptional regulation, and gene expression patterns during cell-fate determination in developing embryos. He isespecially interested in the interactions between disordered regions of proteins and their role in nuclear organization. Read his recent comments […]
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2020 CDB Holiday Video
Happy holidays from Cell and Developmental Biology! The 2020 CDB Holiday Video is available for you to view here.
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Nicholas Plachta appointed as William Richards Gordon President’s Distinguished Professor in Genetics
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Nicolas Plachta, PhD, as the William Richards Gordon President’s Distinguished Professor in Genetics in the Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, a new professorship supported by George A. Weiss, C’65, Penn Medicine Trustee and Trustee Emeritus of the University. Please read more […]
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How Epigenetics Could Turn Things Around For Alzheimer’s Disease
Shelly Berger is studying how genes are turned on and off in the brain, and how different patterns of gene activation could be related to Alzheimer’s disease. Her research is highlighted in this Forbes magazine article.
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Keratins are asymmetrically inherited fate determinants in the mammalian embryo
Lim HYG, Alvarez YD, Gasnier M, Wang Y, Tetlak P, Bissiere S, Wang H, Biro M, Plachta N. Keratins are asymmetrically inherited fate determinants in the mammalian embryo. Nature. 2020 Sep;585(7825):404-409. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2647-4. Epub 2020 Aug 26. PMID: 32848249. Please find a link to the article here.