Doug Epstein
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Professor of Genetics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania hearing loss, brain development, gene regulation
Penn Genetics is excited to host Harmit Malik who will be giving the Bernard Cohen Memorial Lecture today.
Jehuda Lindenblatt wanted the writer Taffy Brodesser-Akner to tell his story of survival for years. In finally doing so, she reckons with how many people in her generation push away thoughts of the Holocaust to cope, only to find themselves dealing with them anyway.
The Holocaust Story I Said I Wouldn’t Write
For years, my friend’s father asked me to recount his childhood escape from the Nazis. Why did it take me this long?
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Breaking News: Mark Carney, a banker, will replace Justin Trudeau as Canada’s Liberal Party leader and the country’s prime minister. The party chose him to take on President Trump amid a generational crisis in Canada’s relationship with the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/w...
Understanding the real costs of research
Facilities and Administrative (F&A) Costs Explainer
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Philadelphia Stand Up For Science! #standupforscience2025 Friday, March 7 · 11am - 1pm Philadelphia City Hall standupforscience2025.org
Happy International Cochlear Implant Day! Over the years we’ve shared so so many stories from families and individuals who are able to benefit from this life-changing technology (which we helped fund in the 1970s and '80s)! Cheers to these miracle ears! #cochlearimplants #keeplistening
"Pioneering gene therapy offers hope for restoring hearing in patients with genetic hearing loss. With 155 genes linked to hearing loss and new discoveries every day, navigating this complex genetic landscape presents a monumental challenge.” From: hearinghealthmatters.org/hearing-news...
Ear Science Institute Australia Leads Biobank Initiative to Advance Genetic Therapies and Personalized Treatment for Hearing Loss | Hearing Health & Technology Matters
Ear Science Institute Australia will develop a WA-headquartered Australasian first biobank to advance genetic therapies for childhood and adult hearing loss. The Australasian Hearing Registry and Biob...
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Our mentor Casey Brown, apart from being an extraordinary scientist, was a brilliant teacher who loved everything genetics. In his honor, some of the world's leading experts came together to create the 'Casey Brown Lecture Series' on human genetics 1/ shorturl.at/eCm7S
Casey Brown Lecture Series - YouTube
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New paper alert! @cambupenn G&E student @ngaboreden in the @blobellab on: LDB1 establishes multi-enhancer networks to regulate gene expression
LDB1 establishes multi-enhancer networks to regulate gene expression - PubMed
How specific enhancer-promoter pairing is established remains mostly unclear. Besides the CTCF/cohesin machinery, few nuclear factors have been studied for a direct role in physically connecting…
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How can some vertebrates naturally recover from deafness? In work in PNAS, Tuo Shi finds that enhancers for sensory genes remain open but silent in sister cells of zebrafish and lizards, allowing these to make new inner ear sensory hair cells upon damage. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Following a suggestion from @benecal.bsky.social I will refer to these threads as "skeetorials" and will use this gif logo. Today's skeetorial is about the NIH Director's New Innovator Award with three different heroes (all in government). 1/n
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Our study with @ericjoyce.bsky.social led by Jailynn Harke is out. We show that allelic configurations at the Shh locus are predominately compact in the mouse forebrain, and that long range E-P interactions rely on transcription dependent and independent mechanisms. www.cell.com/molecular-ce...
Multiple allelic configurations govern long-range Shh enhancer-promoter communication in the embryonic forebrain
Harke et al. use sequential DNA-FISH to achieve single-allele resolution of the Sonic hedgehog (Shh) regulatory domain in the mouse forebrain. They show that multiple allelic configurations occur inde...
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