Honors and Awards:
Fellow, American Society of Cell Biology
Pew Scholar in Biomedical Sciences
American Heart Association Established Investigator
Biology Department Teaching Award (2008)
Dr. Wei Guo and Dr. Joshua Plotkin have been promoted to the rank of Professor of Biology. Dr. Guo is a cell biologist studying the molecular mechanisms of exocytosis. Dr. Plotkin uses mathematical modeling, statistical inference, computation, and experimentation to study questions about…
PHILADELPHIA — Penn Medicine and The Wistar Institute have been awarded a prestigious $11.7 million Specialized Programs of Research Excellence, or SPORE, grant from the National Cancer Institute. The five-year award will fund three new melanoma research projects that translate…
Hosted by Dr. Wei Guo
Home institution: Biomedical Engineering, University of Dartmouth
During development, an embryo must undergo many structural changes in order to form specific body plan and organ structures. In my laboratory, we seek to understand how genetic inputs for tissue patterning are…
During the month of August we got to share a lot of great news about our faculty on social media, that we wanted to share here!
Erol Akcay has been promoted to Associate professor with Tenure,
Brent Helliker has been promoted to Full Professor,
Corlett Wood has joined our department as a new…
The active Brownian particle (ABP) model describes a microswimmer, synthetic or living, whose direction of swimming is a Brownian motion. The swimming is due to a propulsion force, and the fluctuations are often assumed thermal in origin. We present a model where the …
In a collaborative interdisciplinary study, Michael Mitchell of the School of Engineering and Applied Science, Wei Guo of the School of Arts & Sciences, and Drew Weissman of the Perelman School of Medicine show that solid tumors can block drug-delivery mechanisms with a “forcefield-like” effect…
