Today is the 5th anniversary of the lab! Thankful for the home I've found at Penn State and the people I've found it with. Happy new year!

Congrats to Janine Kwapis, Paul Berg Early Career Professor in the Biological Sciences and assistant professor of biology, for receiving the 2024 McKnight Brain Research Foundation Innovator Award in Cognitive Aging and Memory Loss!

Now published! Read our newest story! doi.org/10.1038/s41467…

Super excited to announce today's issue of ACS Bio & Med Chem Au. Please check out our editorial featuring the 2024 Rising Stars in Biological, Medicinal, and Pharmaceutical Chemistry!! #openaccess ACS Publications Bio & Med Chem Content Afsaneh Lavasanifar pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac…

In a time as this— I am deeply thankful to be blessed with this honor. As a scientist and educator, the NSF CAREER award allows me to integrate the very core of who I am as a scientist and educator. Forever grateful to past and present members of the The McReynolds Lab! for helping

Remembering David Mangelsdorf, PhD, a 2025 Endocrine Society Laureate Award recipient and a much loved leader in the world of endocrine science. Sharing the Dec. 2024 cover story where he discussed his research with his co-recipient Steven Kliewer, PhD: endocrinenews.endocrine.org/sobering-scien…

I'm excited to share that Penn State Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation at PSU is conducting a faculty search this year! It's a fantastic place to work with excellent colleagues, highly talented trainees, interdisciplinary science, and lots of support! Applications are due by October 1st.