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Department Events and Seminars May 2, 2012 Dr. Nancy Bonini has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. The National Academy of Sciences announced the election of its newest members in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a U.S. scientist or engineer. February 7, 2012 Dr. Dan Janzen wins the 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology.
January 11, 2012 Dr. Ted Abel has been elected as a Fellow of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology is the nation's premier professional society in brain, behavior, and psychopharmacology research dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of and facilitating communication about disorders of the brain and behavior in order to advance their prevention and treatment. Their members have been instrumental in developing many of the compounds used today to treat psychiatric disorders. January 9, 2012 Dr. Nancy Bonini has been elected as a Fellow of The American Association for the Advancement of Science. The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Council has elected 503 members as Fellows of AAAS. These individuals are recognized for their contributions to science and technology. The AAAS is an international non-profit organization dedicated to advancing science around the world by serving as an educator, leader, spokesperson and professional association. It is the world's largest general scientific society and the publisher of the well-known scientific journal Science. Interestingly, the AAAS was founded in Philadelphia in 1848 and held its first scientific meeting at Penn. April 12, 2011 Dr. Scott Poethig wins Lindback Award The Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching is Penn's highest teaching honor and given in recognition of distinguished teaching which is characterized as intellectually demanding, unusually coherent, and permanent in its effect. The distinguished teacher has the capability of changing the way in which students view the subject they are studying. . March 10, 2011 Dr. Brian Gregory receives NSF CAREER award The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program is a Foundation-wide activity that offers the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards in support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding research, excellent education and the integration of education and research within the context of the mission of their organizations. Dr. Gregory’s research is directed toward the Global Analysis of RNA-dependent RNA Polymerase Function. March 2, 2011 Dr. Phil Rea’s recent PNAS paper - Arsenic tolerance in Arabidopsis is mediated by two ABCC-type phytochelatin transporters - was awarded the 2010 Cozzarelli prize for the best article in the area of Applied Biological, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences. Papers selected for the Cozzarelli Prize were chosen from more than 3,700 research articles published by PNAS in 2010 and represent the six broadly defined classes under which the National Academy of Sciences is organized. The annual award acknowledges recently published papers that reflect scientific excellence and originality. The award was established in 2005 and named the Cozzarelli Prize in 2007 to honor late PNAS Editor-in-Chief Nicholas R. Cozzarelli. March 2, 2011 Drs. Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth’s recent PNAS paper - Contingent cooperation between wild female baboons - was awarded the 2010 Cozzarelli prize for the best article in the area of Behavioral and Social Sciences. February 14, 2011 Dr. David Roos profiled in Nature Biotechnology . This profile highlights Dr. Roos’s work developing the Eukaryotic Pathogen Genome Database and his reflections on the growth of bioinformatics over the past decade. February 2, 2011
December 2010
Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholars are investigators who are already established and recognized for their substantial contribution of creative and productive research. With the Senior Scholar awards, the Foundation seeks to be complementary to other major funders of research by placing emphasis on projects that might not be supported by the traditional sources because of their perceived novelty or high risk. Dr. Kim’s research will address the Genome Biology of Single Neuron Function and its Modulation with Age. December 2010
Ellison Medical Foundation Senior Scholars are investigators who are already established and recognized for their substantial contribution of creative and productive research. With the Senior Scholar awards, the Foundation seeks to be complementary to other major funders of research by placing emphasis on projects that might not be supported by the traditional sources because of their perceived novelty or high risk. Dr. Berger will initiate a High-throughput investigation of chromatin and epigenetic pathways regulating cellular lifespan. August 26, 2010 Dr. Ted Abel appointed as the Brush Family Professor of Biology. This Chair is a gift from David M. Brush and Karen Clark Brush. Both are alumni of the University and wanted to convey their passion for a liberal arts education by creating the Brush Family Professorship in the School of Arts & Sciences. Mr. Brush remains actively engaged with the University. He is a member of the University's Board of Trustees, an SAS Overseer and a member of the Athletic Board of Overseers. 26 August 2010 Dr. Nancy Bonini's work featured in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Recent work conducted in Dr. Nancy Bonini's lab suggests that alterations in a region of the ataxin-2 protein play a role in susceptibility of individuals to the adult-onset motor-neuron disease Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). This work was a wide-ranging collaborative effort among nine labs at Penn plus collaborators in Germany and notable for melding the use of powerful genetic tools in yeast and fly models with patient data to gain insight into human disease pathogenesis. The paper describing this work and an accompanying News and Views commentary was published in Nature. 3 August 2010 Dr. Nancy Bonini appears on the Charlie Rose Show. Nancy Bonini appeared on the Charlie Rose Show on July 22, 2010 in a roundtable discussion hosted by Charlie Rose and Eric Kandel. This PBS program is part of the Brain Series and considered aspects of the "Disordered Brain." This PBS program is available for streaming from several websites including the Charlie Rose Show and Bloomberg Television. 15 June 2010Dr. Dan Janzen's work featured in the New York Times. Recent work by Drs Dan Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs suggest that the pigmentation patterns displayed by a great number of tropical caterpillars and pupae mimic the eye patterns seen on natural predators (e.g., snakes) of insect-eating birds. These displays of "counterfeit predator eyes" on caterpillars help dissuade the birds from eating these immature forms of insects. This widespread mimicry is thought to be evolutionarily generated and sustained by the survival behavior of a large array of insect-eating birds. The paper describing this work was published in PNAS .
21 April 2010Dr. Junhyong Kim awarded Guggenheim Fellowship for 2010 for his work on Genome-scale higher order evolution.Guggenheim Fellowships are American grants that have been awarded annually since 1925 by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the arts." 19 April 2010Erin Wiley has been awarded the Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students by the School of Arts and Sciences .Erin has been recognized as an outstanding teaching assistant in the department's Ecology and Introductory Biology courses. Numerous students and colleagues cited her preparation, professionalism, and breadth of knowledge in these courses in nominating her for this award. Students particularly praised Erin's fair and compassionate teaching style and her availability for questions and discussion outside the classroom. Congratulations, Erin! The Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching by Graduate Students is presented annually to graduate students in the arts and sciences in recognition of their contributions to undergraduate teaching. This award seeks to recognize teaching that is intellectually rigorous, exceptionally coherent, and that has considerable impact upon students. Recipients of the Dean's Award are expected to embody unusually high standards of integrity, fairness and commitment to learning. 07 April 2010 Dr. Brian Keith has been awarded the Provost's Award for Teaching Excellence by Non-Standing Faculty.Brian is an Adjunct Professor in both the Department of Biology in the School of Arts and Sciences and in Department of Cancer Biology in the School of Medicine. In addition, he is a Senior Research Investigator in Department of Cancer Biology, the Director of Education in the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute and a member of the University Scholars Council. The Lindback and Provost's Awards are given in recognition of distinguished teaching which is characterized as intellectually demanding, unusually coherent, and permanent in its effect. The distinguished teacher has the capability of changing the way in which students view the subject they are studying. The distinguished teacher provides the basis for students to look with critical and informed perception at the fundamentals of a discipline, and she/he relates that discipline to other disciplines and to the worldview of the student. The distinguished teacher is accessible to students and open to new ideas, but also expresses his/her own views with articulate and informed understanding of an academic field. The distinguished teacher is fair, free from prejudice, and single-minded in the pursuit of truth.
25 February 2010Dr. David Roos has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology.Seventy-eight microbiologists have been elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology . Fellows of the Academy are elected annually through a highly selective, peer-review process, based on their records of scientific achievement and original contributions that have advanced microbiology. The Academy is the honorific leadership group within the American Society for Microbiology - the world's oldest and largest life science organization. The mission of the Academy is to recognize scientists for outstanding contributions to microbiology and provide microbiological expertise in the service of science and the public. 22 January 2010Dr. Josh Plotkin featured in Science magazine.Our own Josh Plotkin was one of several featured young investigators in a recent Quantitative Biomedical Careers article in Science magazine.
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