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Biophysics summer school in Crete
Photograph of Cretian landscape overlooking a body of water.

This summer, Eleni Katifori and Arnold Mathijssen of the School of Arts & Sciences organized a weeklong summer program in Crete where students from Penn and other institutions could network about topics and ideas in active biophysics research.

(image: Courtesy of Eleni Katifori)

Biophysics summer school in Crete

Eleni Katifori and Arnold Mathijssen spent a week in Crete, introducing students from Penn and other institutes to various topics and ideas in active biophysics research.
A link between memory and appetite in the brain to explain obesity
rendering of a brain and its different sections highlighted as different colors.

Image: iStock/Floaria Bicher

A link between memory and appetite in the brain to explain obesity

Penn Medicine researchers have found the hippocampal subnetwork, located within the memory center of the brain, is more dysregulated in patients with higher body mass indexes, leading to an inability to control or regulate eating habits.

Kelsey Geesler

Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos
students studying the galapagos, sitting on waterfront

(On homepage) On a Penn Global Research Institutes outing to Tortuga Bay, students and Penn Global’s Laurie Jensen sit on rocks in a lava field overlooking a hypersaline pool.

(Image: Michael Weisberg)

Social ecology and community work in the Galápagos

Undergraduate and graduate students spent two months on San Cristóbal Island this summer, doing research on antibacterial resistance, vectors of disease, climate change adaptation, and the impact of climate change on mental health.
Searching for resilience in our reefs
Sea anemone larvae and a pipette.

Sea anemone larvae is exposed to various high temperatures, and its growth and development is studied.

(Image: Brooke Sietinsons)

Searching for resilience in our reefs

Some corals survive hotter temperatures better than others. In the lab of biologist Katie Barott, School of Arts & Sciences second-year students Alex Piven and Angela Ye have spent the summer trying to understand why.

From Omnia

Chasing the mysteries of microbiome communication in our bodies
Maayan Levy and Christoph Thaiss.

Perelman School of Medicine’s Maayan Levy, and Christoph Thaiss.

(Image: Courtesy of Penn Medicine News)

Chasing the mysteries of microbiome communication in our bodies

Penn Medicine’s Maayan Levy and Christoph Thaiss, both assistant professors of microbiology, pursue an understanding of the the microbiome, the entirety of microbial organisms associated with the human body, and its relation to fundamental bodily systems.

Kelsey Geesler

A museum of ‘electrifying frankness’ weighs dialing it down
The New York Times

A museum of ‘electrifying frankness’ weighs dialing it down

Dean Richardson of the School of Veterinary Medicine says that biology is a marvel, better understood if people recognize that its complexities must inevitably lead to some “errors.”

Scientists turn to human ancestors’ DNA in search for new antibiotics
Smithsonian Magazine

Scientists turn to human ancestors’ DNA in search for new antibiotics

A study co-authored by César de la Fuente of the School of Engineering & Applied Science recreated molecules from ancient humans that could be potential candidates for antimicrobial treatments.