The CEGR is composed of ten laboratories with over 70 students and staff. We aim to provide a conducive learning environment for making cutting edge discoveries
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Check out this preprint showcasing a collaborative project between three CEGR labs (@BaiLab_PSU, @mahonylab, and Tan lab) studying the sequence features dictating the binding specificity of the FOXA1 pioneer factor in human cancer cells.
13 Nov 2023
Preprint now available: we investigated the binding specificity of pioneer factor FoxA1 by developing a high throughput synthetic approach ChIP-ISO.
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/…
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Congratulations to Ross Hardison @rosshardison on his retirement!! Thanks to all who came to celebrate and share warm wishes and cake with Ross. 🍾🎉🥳
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After a morning loaded with exciting research talks, attendees enjoyed a lovely luncheon meeting our speakers and an extremely competitive round of movie trivia. Congrats Table 25 on your win! #PennStateChromatin23
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“We Are” happy to be back together at Penn State for the first time since 2019! Thank you to Geeta Narlikar for an incredible start to our summer symposium. Who did you mingle with at our welcome reception? Let us know! Pictures highly encouraged 🥳 #PennStateChromatin23
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Less than 15 minutes until go-time! Thank you to everyone for braving the stormy weather to get here in time for our keynote address and welcome reception. We are looking forward to hearing from Geeta Narlikar for our Robert T. Simpson Plenary Lecture soon! #PennStateChromatin23
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Today is the day! Check-in is now open until 6:45 P.M. in Heritage Hall of the HUB. We can’t wait to see you there! Use #PennStateChromatin23 throughout the symposium to share your experiences 🧬👩🏻🔬🧫.
Register now! The Penn State Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (CEGR) is hosting our 39th Summer Symposium on gene regulation and chromatin biology from August 6-9, 2023 at our University Park campus. Deadline for Registration and Abstracts: July 15th symposium.psu.edu.
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Congrats to one of our NIH-funded eukaryotic gene regulation trainees @hmboyd97 (from the lab of @J9Kwapis) on publishing a review article about her work!
24 Jul 2023
So excited to share my recent review! Keep an eye out for more @FrickKaryn and @J9Kwapis lab collaborations in the future👀Big thanks to @PennStateBio and @cegrPSU for their support.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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Register now! The Penn State Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (CEGR) is hosting our 39th Summer Symposium on gene regulation and chromatin biology from August 6-9, 2023 at our University Park campus. Deadline for Registration and Abstracts: July 15th symposium.psu.edu.
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Our registration and abstract submission deadline is quickly approaching. Be sure to sign up by this Saturday, July 15th!
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The Penn State Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (CEGR) is hosting our 39th Summer Symposium on gene regulation and chromatin biology from August 6-9, 2023 at our University Park campus. Deadline for Short Talks and Early Bird Registration: June 1st: symposium.psu.edu.
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To make it possible for multiple members of a lab to attend, we are keeping registration fees really low ($100 for graduate students, $150 for postdocs for early bird registrations by June 1). We offer a limited number of scholarships for undergrad and grad students.
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Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation at PSU retweeted
15 May 2023
Check out our latest review about the many ways of using synthetic DNA libraries to study gene regulation! This review was led by grad student @hekleinschmidt
tinyurl.com/2s3hfzv6
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Congratulations to our own Dr. Lu Bai (@BaiLab_PSU) for being promoted to Full Professor, and to Dr. Santhosh Girirajan (@girirajan16) for being named the new interim BMB department head! We had a lovely gathering this afternoon to celebrate! 🎉🍾🍰
9 May 2023
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9 May 2023
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An awesome collaboration has finally been published in @MolecularCell where we dissected pioneering capabilities of a transcription factor. I contributed with #cryoEM studies. Go @cegrPSU and Tan Lab, @BaiLab_PSU, @lab_poirier!
authors.elsevier.com/c/1gqSV…
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Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation at PSU retweeted
29 Mar 2023
Online Now: Basic helix-loop-helix pioneer factors interact with the histone octamer to invade nucleosomes and generate nucleosome-depleted regions dlvr.it/SlgWNL
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A research article featuring two CEGR labs (@BaiLab_PSU and the Tan lab) became available online in @MolecularCell today! Check it out!
29 Mar 2023
Check out our latest collaborative work in @MolecularCell with @lab_poirier and Song Tan of @cegrPSU! We suggest a dissociation rate compensation mechanism for nucleosome invasion
cell.com/molecular-cell/full…
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The Penn State Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation (CEGR) is hosting our 39th Summer Symposium on gene regulation and chromatin biology from August 6-9, 2023 at our University Park campus. Registration is open NOW: symposium.psu.edu.
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Thank you to our organizers @valendraica @BaiLab_PSU @feric_marina @mahonylab Joe Reese, Song Tan, Erin Thomas, and Zhonghua Gao, and our hosting university @penn_state @PSUScience @PSUresearch @BMB_PSU
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