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! 🇺🇸🦅🧨🎇. 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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Ditto!
Happy Holidays from the Conn Lab!
Welcoming new Senior Research Specialist, Dr. Ali Khawar and joint (youngest) lab member with @TheModzLab Hayes Modz Conn :)
Excited for lots of growth in 2026!
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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" 🌟
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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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Congrats! I'm digging this "Celebrity Cribs" idea of everyone showing what their office looks like. That couch is so cool!
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There’s Only One Kind Of Flowering Plant Found In The Ocean, And It’s Beautiful iflscience.com/theres-only-o…
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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! 🫡 #cshlTE24
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Impressive as always, @KathleenHBurns gave a mind-blowing talk telling us what LINE-1 is doing in our genome! 🧬🤯 #cshl2024
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I’m honored and grateful to be part of the #PackardFellows class of 2024!🐁🧬🔬🎉😭With the help of the Packard Foundation’s 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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I say go for it. I recently learned sharks have a repetitive element I am really interested in studying, so we might become a shark lab. 🦈🔬
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I'm still dreaming of this delicacy. Thanks for a great visit, Phil! @Ohnolog
Shared this gourmet footlong with some amazing company this past week. @SantiagoFrangos @TheModzLab @YunDing_Lab Thanks to Upenn Bio for having me out to talk about self-organization in killifish.
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Always exciting stuff! My development class never has a shortage of journal club papers thanks to you and the lab!
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