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
News | September 14, 2020 Check out some of the exciting research our postdoc Gabor Egervari did on chromatin accessibility and heroin addiction during his doctoral studies in the @HurdLab @SinaiBrain! Read more
News | September 11, 2020 We had a lovely time this afternoon celebrating our postdoc Raffaella Nativio before she moves to London to start her independent lab Imperial College. Raffaella will be dearly missed, but we look forward to the fantastic research she will do in neuroepigentics!!! Read more