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PCGI congratulates Dr. Tianpeng Zhang on his new position as Assistant Professor at UVA Medical School!

We enjoyed a great lineup of talks yesterday for our PCGI Annual Scientific Retreat at the Penn Museum Penn Museum. Huge thanks to our speakers, especially keynote speaker Don Cleveland (UCSD), and faculty keynote speaker Xue Sherry Gao Xue Sherry Gao!

We’re thrilled for PCGI Co-Director Dr. Ben Black to be on the shortlist for the @falling_walls Foundation #FallingWalls #ScienceBreakthrough of the Year 2024 award. Read more here: falling-walls.com/ben-black-revo…

Congrats to the Bernstein Lab in PCGI for their pub in Nature Communications!

Congratulations to Ben Black (UPenn Dept of Biochem & Biophys/ Penn Center for Genome Integrity/ Penn Epigenetics) on being named to the shortlist for Falling Walls #ScienceBreakthrough of the Year 2024! tinyurl.com/yxez7zva Learn more about Dr. Black & his research➡️ tinyurl.com/4u3fsc34

Grad students and postdocs!! Please join us at the 2025 Gordon Research Conferences GRS on Mammalian DNA Repair on Feb 1-2 with Gaëlle Legube lab Chromatin Repair as our keynote speaker! Talks selected from submitted abstracts Register here: grc.org/mammalian-dna-…

We’re proud to share a member of the PCGI, Kohli Lab postdoc Dr. Noa Erlitzki, has been named a Doctors For America 2024/25 Copello Health Advocacy Fellow. Congrats, Noa! Kohli Lab Noa Erlitzki Doctors for America

Congratulations to PCGI Core Faculty member Andrew Modzelewski for his Packard Fellowship Award!

We thoroughly enjoyed talks yesterday at our PCGI mini symposium on “Double-stranded RNA recognition & signaling”, a special thanks to speakers Qin Li Qin Li, Katalin Susztak Katalin Susztak, Jie Chen Jie Chen (Greenberg Lab) and Hyojeong Abby Hwang (Liu Lab)!

The second Thanksgiving science dish we’re serving up is here, excited to share our new work on sex chromosome homologous proteins DDX3X and DDX3Y, titled “RNA helicases DDX3X and DDX3Y form nanometer-scale RNA-protein clusters that support catalytic activity” in Current Biology!

Congratulations to PCGI Core member Kathy Liu on her recent papers on DDX3X RNA helicase in Nature Communications and Current Biology!

Check out fascinating new work from PCGI leadership Ben Black and Mike Lampson on the role of sequence dependent satellite DNA shape and packaging in female meiosis. nature.com/articles/s4158…

We enjoyed a great round of talks by Alberto Ciccia (Columbia), Lee Zou (Duke), Dr. Agnel Sfeir (MSKCC), and Ranjit Bindra,MD/PhD (Yale), plus our trainees Arindam Datta and Azrin Jamalruddin at yesterday’s PCGI Mini Symposium on "Targeting the Damage Response"

We are excited to report work from PCGI Director Roger Greenberg together with Elton Zeqiraj and Joe Salvino on the discovery of BIRSC deubiquitinating enzyme inhibitors for inflammatory indications rdcu.be/edRwF.

Enjoyed a terrific round of talks yesterday by Drs. Paula Cohen (Cornell), Scott Keeney (MSKCC) & Srinivas Viswanathan Srinivas Viswanathan, with trainees Damian Dudka & Cara Brand for our PCGI Mini Symposium on Sex Chromosomes and Meiosis

Had a fantastic round of talks yesterday thanks to guest speakers Drs. Yukiko Yamashita (MIT), Zuzana Tothova (Broad Institute), & Tony Huang (NYU), with Drs. Hongjun Song (Neuroscience Song and Ming Labs), Daria Babushok (Med/Pediatrics Daria Babushok Lab), & Hiroki Akizawa (Plachta Lab)

Session topic was “Pressures to genome integrity during development & regeneration." This PCGI Mini Symposium was our last this year, we'd like to thank everyone who participated & attended for a wonderful series. We'll post what comes next to our website: med.upenn.edu/pcgi/upcoming-…

We are thrilled to announce PCGI Core Faculty Member Dr. Dennis Discher has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences American Academy of Arts & Sciences, please join us in sending him a huge congratulations! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/five-penn…