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Dr. Maria Tătulea-Codrean, University of Cambridge
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Dr. Avery Montie, Boston University
It’s too late to Mitigate: Resilience & Adaptation in plants
Dr. Joanne Chory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies
The 2024 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Sciences is presented to Joanne Chory for her research combining genetic, biochemical & genome-wide analyses to elucidate how plants respond to light, & for inspiring…
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Jessica Wojick selected for Penn Grad Talks
Feb. 20, 2024
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May. 26, 2021
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BEN Talks 2024 comes to Palo Alto and Santa Monica
At two events, Penn Arts & Sciences faculty discuss resilience in the age of climate change.Deconstructing the structural elements of a lesser-known microbe
Research led by Mecky Pohlschröder of the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts & Sciences has uncovered key insights into the molecular machinery that determines archaea’s morphology. The findings were published in the journal Nature Communications.Jess Wojick wins the "Natural Sciences" category for Penn Grad Talks
Penn Grad Talks is a day of TED Talk-style presentations by Penn Arts & Sciences graduate students representing the Humanities, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Professional Master’s prog
OMNIA shines a spotlight on the "Plant Group" in the Biology Dept
Within the Department of Biology, the self-described “plant group” is employing cutting-edge techniques to explore everything from cancer and developmental biology to how agricultural crops might withstand a changing climate.Erol Akçay and Marco Smolla publish research about social networks
Erol Akçay and Marco Smolla wanted to understand how social networks and cumulative culture—the breadth of and proficiency in socially learned skills—co-evolve. They published their findings in Evolutionary Human Sciences.