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Jan 20, 2013

Nine Huck Institutes faculty members featured in Discovery U videos

Peter Hudson, Scott Selleck, David Hughes, Melissa Rolls, Paula Droege, Tracy Langkilde, Phil Bevilacqua, Stephen Schaeffer, and Robert Paulson talk about research that's driving scientific discovery at Penn State.

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Dec 04, 2012

Sarah Assmann invited to write Coulter Review paper for the International Journal of Plant Sciences

This inaugural Coulter Review article is scheduled for publication in the January 2013 issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences.

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Nov 11, 2012

Scott Showalter receives the inaugural Eastern Analytical Society New Faculty Award in NMR Spectroscopy

The award recognizes outstanding contributions by new faculty to the development of the field of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy.

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Jun 25, 2012

Penn State is awarded a $5.8 million grant to expand its Galaxy biomedical analysis software

Anton Nekrutenko of the Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics, with co-developer James Taylor of Emory University, will continue to build new functionality into the Galaxy resource.

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Jun 20, 2012

Crowdbreaks tracks disease trends through social media

The Salathe research group in the Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics and the HealthMap team at Boston Children's Hospital collaborate to crowd-source disease surveillance using aggregated Twitter feeds, user-driven data refinement, and machine-learning algorithms.

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Jun 04, 2012

A strategy is discovered to activate genes that suppress cancer

A team of researchers led by Yanming Wang of the Huck Institutes' Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation and Gong Chen of the Department of Chemistry has found that by inhibiting the PAD4 enzyme they can reactivate tumor-suppressing genes to destroy cancerous cells.

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May 07, 2012

Philip C. Bevilacqua is awarded the C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching

Dr. Bevilacqua, a professor of chemistry at Penn State and co-director of the Huck Institutes' Center for RNA Molecular Biology, has been honored by the Eberly College of Science Alumni Society with the 2012 C.I. Noll Award for Excellence in Teaching.

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Mar 01, 2012

College of Medicine researchers featured in recent media

Huck Institutes faculty members Wafik El-Deiry, James Broach and Xuemei Huang have each been featured in recent Penn State publications.

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Dec 18, 2011

Huck Institutes' faculty member overturns nearly half a century of erroneous science

Dr. Donald Bryant and his research team discover genes coding for complete TCA cycle in cyanobacteria

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Nov 08, 2011

Huck Institutes' faculty member recognized in international interdisciplinary publications

Recent papers in Nature feature the collaborative interdisciplinary work of international scientists and Penn State professor Beth Shapiro

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