Assistant Professor at @UPenn VetMed.Searle Scholar, Beckman Investigator. Development, reproduction, retrotransposons and gene editing. #Stem #FirstGen #BLM
Philadelphia, PA
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Dear Friends! Please VOTE-4-KATIE! My grad student Katie Toohill made it to the ProteinTech "Rising Research Award" final round! It would mean a lot to me and the lab if you voted for her (once a day!!) tinyurl.com/dzwmmr2e
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Happy 4th of July! 馃嚭馃嚫馃馃Ж馃巼. Here is televant Ben Franklin Maxim: "In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria." Stay safe out there today!
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I had a wonderful time at the Beckman Symposium! It's amazing to see the worlds best and brightest scientists in one place! Incredible work as always, @BeckmanFnd! Check out my "Beckman Bling" 馃専
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WE ARE HIRING (Postdoc Position)! Please share this with anyone who might be interested. Philly and UPENN are waiting for you!
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Two of my favorite but hard to study topics (TEs and smallRNAs). Andrea Schorn is brave enough to gracefully tackle them both head on! 馃 #cshlTE24
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Impressive as always, @KathleenHBurns gave a mind-blowing talk telling us what LINE-1 is doing in our genome! 馃К馃く #cshl2024
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I鈥檓 honored and grateful to be part of the #PackardFellows class of 2024!馃悂馃К馃敩馃帀馃槶With the help of the Packard Foundation鈥檚 funding, I look forward to researching new ways to study retrotransposon reactivation in development and disease @pennvet @PennCDB packard.org/2024fellows
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Not one but TWO grad students became PhD Candidates in the Modz Lab, wahoo!! @CAMBUpenn @pennvet @PennCDB @penn
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We assistant professors need to stick together! Had a great time @PennCDB retreat! Looking forward to everyone new and exciting research! @MustafaMir16 @JuanAlvarezDom @MorrisBLab @pennvet @Penn
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Had a blast at the Searle Scholars Symposium this week! 馃挜 Met with some brilliant scientists and hung out with the Searle family.馃敩 We even met an ancient celebrity @FieldMuseum! 馃
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Great end to a great year with the lab! Holiday party and white elephant gift exchange with @CSConn_PhD at Louie Louie was a ton of fun! Looking forward to what we hope to accomplish in 2024. Happy New Years everyone! 馃悩 馃コ 馃嵕馃巻 @pennvet @CAMBUpenn @PennCDB
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The ModzLab had a great time at the @BMBGGUPENN retreat at @SkytopLodge! Thanks for the invite and memories @KristenWLynch1 & @BB_UPenn !
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Behold! The rarest gummi of them all, the gummi Venus de Milo. Carved by gummi artisans who work exclusively in the medium of gummi!
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Had an amazing time at the 2023 Beckman Symposium! Met with so many talented scientists including the other ten BYIs! We also finally solved Schrodingers Cat Paradox! SPOILER: it's both?? 馃悎 @BeckmanFnd
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Finally got the lab out of the lab! Little hike on the Wissahickon trail. We even found an affordable place for the grad students to live! Includes roommate who is beary considerate! 馃惢
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Amazing thesis defense out of the @JonEpsteinLab! 10/10! Keep both eyes (and heart cells) on @DevBioAcademic! 馃憗馃憗 馃挅馃К I'm looking forward to following his career! @PennCDB and embarrassed @jonepstein1
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@Anders_S_Hansen just gave a Mind/Genome bending talk today at UPenn. His team lets us look at 3D Genome organization at 100x resolution than ever before! 馃く. We need to keep an eye on the Hansen lab for more awesome discoveries!! @MustafaMir16 @MIT @Penn @CHOP_CCGM
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A little gift for the lab! The bargain is that I will supply unlimited coffee/tea but the price is a mini meeting in my office per cup. 鈽曪笍 馃嵉.
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Free Ice Cream day at the BioPond should be a national holiday! 馃構 Special thanks to the planet's hardest working ice cream scooper! 馃崷 馃殮 @PennCDB @PennMedicine @pennvet
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About 15minutes before the start of the Broad Street 10 mile "fun" run!! About 5 minutes before a nice storm, too! 馃尒馃尓鈽勶笍 #BroadStreetRun #ibx10run
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...and the award for Best Talk at #TriRepro2023 goes to... @robin_skory !! 馃憦 great work and beautiful images! @cohen_lab @CornellRepro (@ColinConine 馃摳 馃挘)
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Really fun reunion and dinner with Sylivia Lee and Bob Weiss during @CSConn_PhD and my visit to @cornellvet @CornellRepro !! Invite us back anytime!!
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I know your pain! This was our pipe headache. We had to take out some of the flooring (from 1701) and dig up the patio. #centuryhomes
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Driving through Philly is indistinguishable from driving through the hardware aisle at the @HomeDepot.
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Darn, the hottest new STEM toy is out of stock! Now what will I get my niece for her birthday, a Rubix cube? Those only summon frustration...
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We only got a handful of brave Trick or Treaters last night. 馃巸 It could be due to the rain but I worry our bouncer might have taken their job too seriously.
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Evolutionary Mismatch?! Great co-evolution talk from BOTH @levine_lab and Cara Brand! @PennSAS @PennSASSOI #stuckonrepeat @ScienceStowers
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Very cool dual-speaker talk about Centromere-Drive 馃К馃弾 by @damian_dudka and Mike Lampson from @PennSAS @PennSASSOI here at #stuckonrepeat @ScienceStowers
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It wasn't even cold, but my hotel room had this antique fireplace! I could resist. 馃敟 馃敟 馃敟 #stuckonrepeat @ScienceStowers
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Truly innovative dual-talk about centromere innovation from the lab of @HarmitMalik. Impressive Covid-Project by @PravruthaRaman, an inspiration to us all! @ScienceStowers #StuckOnRepeat
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Another fascinating story from the Feschotte Lab! The keynote was a tag team presentation about Zebrafish 馃馃悷Transposons 馃К by @CedricFeschotte and Sylvia Chang from @CornellMBG here at #SRC2022 #StuckOnRepeat @ScienceStowers @Stowers_SRC
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