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Latest Research

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

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

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.

BMB SEMINAR SERIES

April 23, 2019 (Marker Lecture) - "Spatial Organization of Chromatin in the Interphase Nucleus", presented by Susan M. Gasser from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (Switzerland). The presentation begins at 1:45 p.m. in 104 Thomas Building.

April 30, 2019 (Stone Lecture) - "The Enemy Within – Immune and Autoimmune Responses to Cytosolic DNA", presented by Zhijian 'James' Chen from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. The presentation begins at 3:00 p.m. in 112 Buckout Laboratory.