Biology is fundamental to our changing world. The 21st century challenge for our students, our scholars, and the greater society is to understand our place in this changing world and to create fundamental knowledge for informed policies, economies, and social structure.
Upcoming Events
Mutualisms to scale: how ant-plant mutualisms increase diversity and impact the carbon cycle
Mutually beneficial interactions between species (i.e., mutualisms) are well known drivers of (co)evolution and of changes in the structure of ecological interaction networks, but the effects of mutualisms…
Graduate Student Talks
talk abstracts & zoom link to come
The generation of neuronal diversity
In the Drosophila optic lobes, ~200 types of neurons that are organized in 800 columns process inputs from 800 unit-eyes. Our lab asks how this variety of neurons is generated during development, how they generate…
News
SAS Presents Dynamite!
Dec. 10, 2020
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August Annoucements
Aug. 31, 2020
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2020 Virtual Summer Academies @Penn
Jul. 31, 2020
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David S. Roos on the future of COVID-19
The E. Otis Kendall Professor of Biology and infectious disease specialist discusses the virus, its variants, and vaccines in a Q&A.
Dr. Abdus-Saboor Named as 2021 Sloan Research Fellow
The fellowship recognizes extraordinary U.S. and Canadian researchers whose creativity, innovation, and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of scientific leaders.
First ever ‘pioneer’ factor found in plants enables cells to change their fate
To start the process of unpacking tightly bundled genetic material, plants depend on the LEAFY pioneer protein, according to work led by biologist Doris Wagner.
Parkinson’s disease risk and severity is tied to the activity of a channel in cells’ ‘recycling centers’
Genetic variations associated with both increases and reductions in risk of the neurodegenerative disease alter the action of ion channels within cellular organelles called lysosomes, a new Penn study finds.
Climate change doesn’t spare the smallest
Changing conditions have taken a toll on insects in the tropics, according to research by School of Arts & Sciences biologists Daniel Janzen and Winnie Hallwachs. But education and science offer a path forward, they say.
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