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Giririjan research June 2019

Latest Research

New Research from the Girirajan Lab "A machine-learning approach for accurate detection of copy-number variants from exome sequencing"

New research from the Cameron Lab, "More than efficacy revealed by single cell analysis of antiviral therapeutics"

New research from the Reese Lab, "Unjamming the genome after DNA Damage"

The Szpara Lab has collaborated with The University of Turku to research comparison of HSV-1 strains circulating in Finland demonstrates the uncoupling of whole-genome relatedness and phenotypic outcomes of viral infection

The Boal group, and the Balskus lab (Harvard University) have solved the first structure of an iron-dependent N-N bond-forming enzyme, SznF.

The Zhang Lab, has developed a new method, using fluorescence, to detect potentially disease-causing forms of proteins as they unravel due to stress or mutations.

Student Highlights

Cuyler Luck earns John Sr. and Kimlyn Patishnock Grand Prize at Undergraduate Research Exhibition

BMB Department shows strong representation at the Spring 2019 Undergraduate Research Exhibition

Andrew Renda earns Best Poster Award at the FUSION Nucleic Acids Conference

Grace Usher selected for the Student Research Achievement Award at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society.

Congratulations to Frank Pugh’s Undergraduate student researchers on receiving Eberly College of Science’s Office of Science Engagement award!

Victoria Bonnell awarded Best Poster Award at the XXIX International Molecular Parasitology Meeting

Erin McCarthy selected as the recipient of the2018 Richard L. and Norma L. McCarl Scholarship

Undergraduate Researcher, Anna Brogan, takes part in Eberly College of Science Poster Exhibition

News and Events

Xin Zhang honored as Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

For just the second time in Penn State history, all four University candidates to the Goldwater Scholarship program were named as awardees, with three being BMB majors and all four conduct research in BMB labs.

Squire Booker elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences

BMB Department celebrates employee years of service

The Pennsylvania State University was selected by the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation as 1 of 12 institutions to receive a 2019 Beckman Scholars Program Award.

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