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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.

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).

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.

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.

Rebecca Clements, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
 rebecca.clements@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: My research focuses on understanding complex immune responses to pathogens at the maternal-fetal interface.

Linamarie Miller, Ph.D.
Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
 Linamarie.Miller@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Molecular mechanisms of RNA binding for the prion-like domain containing protein TDP-43.

Kayleigh O'Keeffe, Ph.D.
Department of Biology
 kokeeffe@sas.upenn.edu

Research Topic: I am investigating the evolutionary ecology of ticks and tick-borne pathogens, specifically exploring the population dynamics of ticks in New York to see how they relate to spread of tick-borne pathogens. 

Ashley Woolfork, Ph.D.
Deptartment of Pharmacology
 ashley.woolfork@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Project and Progress: I use desorption electrospray ionization mass spectrometry imaging (DESI-MSI) as a tool to predict COVID specific genes from pre and post infection serum samples of asymptomatic and symptomatic patients.

Camila Barrios-Camacho, Ph.D.
Department of Neuroscience

Research Topic: My project explores how the intracellular domain (ICD) of the Frazzled/DCC receptor functions as a non-canonical transcription factor to shape gene regulatory networks underlying midline axonal crossing in Drosophila melanogaster.