Congratulations to Doris Wagner on this honor!Dean Steven Fluharty announced the appointment of Doris Wagner as the Robert I. Williams Term Professor of Biology. The appointment recognizes Dr. Wagner’s “distinguished scholarship and outstanding service to the Department and School of Arts and…
Dr. Doris Wagner, Robert I. Williams Term Professor of Biology, receives the 2019 Fellow of ASPB (American Society of Plant Biologists) Award. The honors will be presented at the Plant Biology 2019 meeting (August 3-7, 2019), in San Jose, California.
Dr. Wagner’s research is focused on the…
Dr. Doris Wagner has been promoted to Professor of Biology.
Biology department Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) workshops provide the opportunity for graduate students and postdocs to discuss a variety of teaching topics and pedagogy with faculty in our department. These workshops encourage participants to reflect on teaching and to enhance their…
John Wagner (senior lecturer), Linda Robinson (intro-biology lab organizer), and Kai Kelly (Penn sophomore) recently attend an NSF-funded Research Coordination Network in Undergraduate Biology Education workshop in Naperville, IL on the Yeast ORFan Gene Project. Together they will be working to…
Cell-based biosensors hold the promise of on-demand signal integration, sensing, and response in complex and otherwise inaccessible environments. One key challenge is identifying specific DNA sequences in environmental samples that can be highly complex and chemically impure, making sequencing…
