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Latest Research

Dr. Susan Hafenstein part of research team studying how Virus' may jump species through 'rock-and-roll' motion with receptors

Dr. Manuel Llinás collaborates with team of international researchers to develop a new tool in the fight against malaria

Dr. Paul Cremer, alongside researchers from Penn State and Astra Zeneca, takes part in investigating how certain drug solutions separate, which can reduce their stability and shelf life

Dr. Tim Miyashiro leads research team investigating genetic redundancy and how it aids competition among bacteria in symbiosis with squid

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"

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

The BMB Department welcomes Dr. Emily Weinert to the faculty

The BMB Department welcomes Dr. Jan van Riggelen to the faculty

Xin Zhang honored as Pew Scholar in the Biomedical Sciences

BMB Seminar Series

October 3, 2019 - “Long-distance gene regulation in budding yeast,” presented by Manyu Du, Penn State University. The presentation is scheduled for 11:30 A.M. in 501 Wartik Laboratory.

October 7, 2019 - “New Paradigms is Microtubule Biology: Information Encoding and Lattice Dynamics,” presented by Antonina Roll-Mecak, National Institutes of Health. The presentation is scheduled for 4:00 P.M. in 112 Borland Laboratory.

October 10, 2019 - The BMMB Graduate Seminar Presents: Hengye Chen and his research on "Systematic investigation of the coordination between nucleosome-displacing factors and chromatin remodelers". The presentation is scheduled for 12:05 P.M. in 201 Thomas Building.

Faculty Job Postings

Director of the Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation at Penn State

Faculty Positions in Eukaryotic Gene Regulation at Penn State

Faculty Positions in Microbiology at Penn State