Penn Center for Genome Integrity
@PennGenomeInteg
PCGI's mission is to integrate cutting-edge research in basic and clinical sciences to advance our understanding of genome integrity.
We are thrilled to announce PCGI Core Faculty Member Dr. Dennis Discher has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences @americanacad, please join us in sending him a huge congratulations! penntoday.upenn.edu/news/five-penn…
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-…
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 @UPenn_SongMing), Daria Babushok (Med/Pediatrics @BabushokLab), & Hiroki Akizawa (Plachta Lab)
Enjoyed a terrific round of talks yesterday by Drs. Paula Cohen (Cornell), Scott Keeney (MSKCC) & Srinivas Viswanathan @srviswanathan, with trainees @damian_dudka & Cara Brand for our PCGI Mini Symposium on Sex Chromosomes and Meiosis
We are excited to report work from PCGI Director @RogerRogergr together with Elton Zeqiraj and Joe Salvino on the discovery of BIRSC deubiquitinating enzyme inhibitors for inflammatory indications rdcu.be/edRwF.
Please see our discovery of first-in-class BRISC deubiquitylating enzyme inhibitors rdcu.be/edRwF. A great journey with Elton Zeqiraj, Francesca Chandler, Joe Salvino. High-throughput screens, cryo-EM structure and ontarget activity to reduce inflammatory signals.
We enjoyed a great round of talks by @CicciaAlberto (Columbia), @LeeZou8 (Duke), Dr. Agnel Sfeir (MSKCC), and @ranjitbindra (Yale), plus our trainees @arindam_datta1 and Azrin Jamalruddin at yesterday’s PCGI Mini Symposium on "Targeting the Damage Response"
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…
Congratulations to PCGI Core member Kathy Liu on her recent papers on DDX3X RNA helicase in Nature Communications and Current Biology!
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, we're serving up some science! Thrilled to share our new work on sex chromosome homologous proteins DDX3X and DDX3Y, — now published in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…
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!
We thoroughly enjoyed talks yesterday at our PCGI mini symposium on “Double-stranded RNA recognition & signaling”, a special thanks to speakers Qin Li @QinA2I, Katalin Susztak @KSusztak, Jie Chen @JieChen_Z (Greenberg Lab) and Hyojeong Abby Hwang (Liu Lab)!
Congratulations to PCGI Core Faculty member Andrew Modzelewski for his Packard Fellowship Award!
I’m honored and grateful to be part of the #PackardFellows class of 2024!🐁🧬🔬🎉😭With the help of the Packard Foundation’s funding, I look forward to researching new ways to study retrotransposon reactivation in development and disease @pennvet @PennCDB packard.org/2024fellows
Grad students and postdocs!! Please join us at the 2025 @GordonConf GRS on Mammalian DNA Repair on Feb 1-2 with @LabLegube 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! @KohliLab @NoaErlitzki @drsforamerica
Congratulations to Ben Black (@BB_UPenn/ @PennGenomeInteg/ @PennEpiInst) 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
Congrats to the Bernstein Lab in PCGI for their pub in @NatureComms!
Excited for our pub. in Nature Communications, Human Shu complex promotes RAD51 activity by modulating RPA dynamics on ssDNA, Congrats to @science_SRH @BenVanHouten2 @cheesin_chelsea @maria_spies @matt_schaich et al nature.com/articles/s4146…
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…
We are excited to unveil the shortlist for the #FallingWalls #ScienceBreakthrough of the Year 2024! Congratulations to these exceptional individuals who have made it to this exciting stage. 👏 Discover the winners: bit.ly/3Xas2N7
We enjoyed a great lineup of talks yesterday for our PCGI Annual Scientific Retreat at the Penn Museum @pennmuseum. Huge thanks to our speakers, especially keynote speaker Don Cleveland (UCSD), and faculty keynote speaker Xue Sherry Gao @XueSherryGao!
PCGI congratulates Dr. Tianpeng Zhang on his new position as Assistant Professor at UVA Medical School!
I’m thrilled to share that I will be joining Department of Radiation Oncoloy (and BMG) @UVA as AP this August. The Zhang Lab will study genome integrity maintenance within repetitive genome regions. I am grateful to the mentorship from postdoctoral supervisor@RogerRogergr and