Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

Seale Lab

Past Announcements

[2022-06-10] Dr. Patrick Seale has been promoted to Full Professor, effective July 1, 2022!

[2021-08-01] Angela Weller has joined the Seale lab as Lab Manager!

[2021-04-12] Anthony Angueira and Alex Saker's manuscript on the developmental origins of perivascular adipose tissue (PVAT) has been published at Nature Metabolism.

[2021-03-08] Dr. Josephine Tan has joined the Seale lab as our newest post-doc!

[2020-11-16] Dr. Yang Chen has joined the Seale lab as our newest post-doc!

[2020-09-01] Dr. David Merrick has started his own laboratory as an Assistant Professor at the University of Pennsylvania / IDOM.

[2020-08-04] Anthony Angueira defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Angueira!

[2020-06-12] Dr. Injae Hwang has joined the Seale lab as our newest post-doc!

[2020-06-01] Seoyoung Jun has joined the Seale lab as our newest graduate student!

[2020-01-29] Anthony Angueira's manuscript on the roles of EBF factors in brown adipose has been accepted at Cell Reports.

[2019-11-25] Dr. Karima Drareni has joined the Seale lab as our newest post-doc!

[2019-10-26] Dr. Patrick Seale has been awarded the 2020 Linda Pechenik Montague Investigator Award for mid-career research faculty at the Perelman School of Medicine.

[2019-09-26] Dr. Rachel Stine's Cell Stem Cell paper on the role of Prdm16 in small intestine stem cells has been has been published.

[2019-09-12] Alex Sakers defended his Ph.D. thesis. Congratulations Dr. Sakers!

[2019-08-16] Dr. Rachel Stine's manuscript on the role of Prdm16 in small intestine stem cells has been accepted at Cell Stem Cell.

[2019-06-17] Corey Holman has joined the Seale lab as our newest Ph.D. student!

[2019-05-30] Dr. Wenshan Wang's Cell Metabolism paper describing adipocyte-derived metabolite signals that regulate progenitor cell fate decision has been published.

[2019-04-26] Dr. David Merrick and Alex SakersScience paper on adipose progenitor cells has been published!  A review Perspective accompanies their research article.

[2019-01-31] Dr. David Merrick will be presenting his and Alex Sakers' work on single-cell sequencing identification of adipocyte precursor populations from adult adipose tissue at the Obesity and Adipose Tissue Biology Keystone Symposium in Banff, AB Canada on Feb. 13.

[2019-01-23] Dr. Rachel Stine has received a 2019 GIL Research Recognition and Distinguished Research Award from the American Physiological Society for her research on small intestine stem cells.

[2018-09-06] Dr. Patrick Seale has been awarded the 2019 Richard E. Weitzman Outstanding Early Career Investigator Award by the Endocrine Society.  He was recently interviewed by Philly.com about this award and his research.