PennPORT

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.

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.

Ashley Woolfork, Ph.D.
Deptartment of Pharmacology
 ashwoo@sas.upenn.edu

Research Topic: 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
 camila.barrioscamacho@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

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.

Joshua Eggold, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology
 joshua.eggold@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: My research focuses on developing new therapies for ovarian cancer using chimeric antigen receptor T cells, specifically looking at ways to target macrophages and other immune components of the tumor microenvironment. 

Helen Schmidt, Ph.D.
Department of Genetics
 schmidth@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: I am using the C. elegans vulva as a model dissect mechanisms controlling cell type specific apical extracellular matrix assembly during epithelial tube formation.

Christopher Panebianco, Ph.D.
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
 Christopher.Panebianco@Pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Mechanobiology of bone development and regeneration.

Nicole Bracci, Ph.D.
Department of Microbiology
 Nicole.Bracci@PennMedicine.UPenn.edu

Research Topic: Host immune responses for coronavirus and flavivirus infections.

Tess Cherlin, Ph.D.
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
 tess.cherlin@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating women’s health and disease using multiomics approaches.

Kimberly Wodzanowski
Department of Microbiology
 kimberly.wodzanowski@pennmedicine.upenn.edu

Research Topic: Investigating inflammasome activation in response to pathogenic bacteria.