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  • Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 15:00

    Class of 62, John Morgan Building

    Steve Jacobsen, PhD
    UCLA
    “Genetics of gene silencing in Arabidopsis”

The next frontier in the genome sciences will be developing technology that captures novel quantitative biological measurements ... more about genomics

Congratulations to Alison Feder (BA, Mathematics) and Kevin Sun (BAS, Bioengineering)! Both alumni of the PGFI UIRP intern program were nominated for this award by faculty in their respective schools for their impressive scholarly accomplishments during their Penn undergraduate careers.

Nancy Bonini’s contributions to understanding the molecular mechanisms of human neurodegenerative diseases were recognized by the National Academy of Sciences with her election to NAS membership in May 2012. Dr. Bonini is Lucille B. Williams Professor of Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences and an investigator for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

Garret FitzGerald, chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Director of the Institute for Translational Medicine & Therapeutics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, is among the 44 newly elected Fellows and eight newly elected Foreign Members to the Royal Society.

Thomas Curran, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, PI at Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and deputy scientific director at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, was one of five professors from Penn to be elected to the 2012 class of members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and of the Royal Society.

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Based at the University of Pennsylvania, Penn Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI) is a university-wide institute dedicated to the advancement of the interdisciplinary field of genomics research. PGFI fosters collaborations and scientific exchange across biology, veterinary medicine, pharmacology, medicine, genetics, microbiology, engineering, physics, chemistry and psychology. Our mission...