PennPORT

Sara Roberson, Ph.D.
Department of Cell Developmental Biology
 sarob@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: The mechanisms that underlie aging of a stem cell niche of the Drosophilia testis 

Lisa Bottalico, Ph.D.
Department of Pharmacology
 bottlisa@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the effect of environmental exposures on circadian metabolism. 

Kaitlin Laws, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
 klaws@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Defining the Molecular Determinants of Drosophila Motor Neuron maintenance.

Lyndsay Avery, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
  averyl@email.chop.edu

Research Topic: Understand the effects of mutual moesin protein on the function of the immune system.

Andrew Matamoros, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
 matamorosa@email.chop.edu

Research Topic: I am using a drosophila in vivo injury model to study nerve regeneration using a two-photon and confocal microscope.

John Drazan, Ph.D.
Department of Orthopedic Research
 john.drazan2@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: The development of mobile, low-cost biomechanics equipment to study the development of musculoskeletal pathology in active youth and adult sport players within the community.

Kristian Saied-Santiago, Ph.D.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
 ksaied@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Identifying molecular pathways required for optic nerve regeneration in vivo.

Ray Saunders, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of Pathobiology
 rks@vet.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Developing and characterizing methods for delivery of Trefoil factors 2 and 3 to the gastrointestinal tract.

Joseph Zinski, Ph.D.
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology
 jzinski@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: I aim to determine how the dynamics of transcriptional bursting are affected by histone post-translational modifications (eg. acetylation, methylation).

Kathryn Hacker, Ph.D.
Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics
 kathryn.hacker@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: I am investigating the efficacy of public policy interventions and surveillance practices for controlling arthropod populations of public health significance in complex urban environments.

Dave Marzan, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
 dave.marzan@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: I aim to better understand the functional consequences of HDLS mutations and to develop a microglia replacement system for the treatment of neurological disease.

Viridiana Herrera, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
 viridiana.herrera@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: I aim to understand the interactions between Aurora B, components of the chromosome passenger complex, and centromeric chromatin.

Angel Solis, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
 angel.solis@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: To identify novel regulators of immunity in the intestinal microbiome.

Jasmine Alexander-Floyd, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
 alexanja@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: To investigate how diverse lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures are recognized by macrophages and activate the human non-canonical inflammasome pathway.

Patrick Cherubin, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
 patrick.cherubin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: To understand and elucidate key interactions between viruses and their host cells as a basis for therapeutic and prophylactic strategies.

Edward Waddell, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience
 edward.waddell@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: I will be using Drosiphila melanogaster to investigate the mechanisms regulating neuronal morphogenesis.

Aimee Farria, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biology
 Aimee.Farria@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating the metabolism-epigenetics link in pancreatic cancer.

Steven Foltz, Ph.D.
Department of Systems Pharmacology and Translational Therapeutics
 steven.foltz@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Pediatric cancer genomics and metadata prediction from publicly-available gene expression compendia.

Erica Gorenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
 erica.gorenberg@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Identification of factors affecting yeast disaggregase and chaperone protein function.

Jasmine Peake, Ph.D.
Department of Cancer Biology
 peakej@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Utilizing methods of replication fork retrieval to understand responses to ATRi-PARPi treatment.

Alex Harris, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
 alex.harris@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Understanding the microbiome is key to understanding the health of any population, and I am particularly interested in approaching this topic from a metabolic perspective.