News | December 17, 2020 Santa came early!! We home have @berger_lab atta cephalotes colonies!!!! #ants #ant #antman #science #scicomm Read more
News | December 14, 2020 Many of these amazing researchers are part of the Epigenetics Institute! We Love the collaborative and cross-functional nature of Penn. Engineering and Medicine Researchers Collaborate on Studies of Genome Folding in Health and DiseaseRead more
News | November 6, 2020 Interested in learning more about the interactions between metabolism and epigenetics? Check out our perspective written by Gabor Egervari and Karl Glastad in Science Magazine. https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6517/660Read more
News | October 26, 2020 A lovely video from Being Patient on epigenetics and Alzheimer’s disease with our former post-doc Raffaella Nativio, now at Imperial College in London: Decoding the Epigenetics of Alzheimer’s | Brain Talks | Being Patient Al… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu11L7L6SSQ&feature=youtu.beRead more
News | October 15, 2020 A great feature on our post-doc Khoa Tran, co-founder of JKX Comics in the Penn Gazette. Khoa describes his passion project of using comics to help with science education! Read more
News | October 9, 2020 Cool write-up on our unique project with the Liberty Science Center on leaf cutter ants! Another great Berger Lab collaboration led by Michael Gilbert, Cristina Brady, and Balint Kacsoh! Read more
News | September 28, 2020 Online today: our paper demonstrating Sirt1 is downregulated by autophagy in senescence and aging by Caiyue Xu and Lu Wang in @NatureCellBio. Exciting mechanism/potential strategy to promote productive aging. Read more
News | September 28, 2020 Check out our latest work on epigenetic alterations in Alzheimer’s disease by Raffaella Nativio, out now in @NatureGenet. A fantastic, multi-omic, collaborative effort utilizing human tissues and fruit fly models @PennEpiInst @PennCDB@PennGenetics@PennBiology Read more
News | September 23, 2020 Join us for our next symposium on Tuesday 10/6 for “Senescence and aging: chromatin gone awry” Chaired by @senergystic! Speakers Drs. Shelley Berger, Isabel Beerman, John Sedivy, and Alejandro Ocampo! Read more
News | September 15, 2020 #CHSLEPICH20 kicked off this morning! Shelley presented some of the lab’s work utilizing multiple systems to study epigenetic mechanisms regulating stress pathways. We are sad to miss seeing everyone in person, but we are looking forward to a great week of talks! Read more