Penn Biology

Penn Biology is having a Biology Major open house this Friday from 10am - 12pm. Come check it out!

Scientists Found the Potential Off Button for Stopping Chronic Pain In the face of something that threatens survival, a certain group of neurons can produce a molecule that acts as a painkiller.

This Thursday, Penn Biology is excited to host Dr Ling Li from

for this week's seminar, "From Arabidopsis to crops: a molecular tool to increase protein content and broad disease resistance."
Watch for free via Zoom in the link. Oct 30, 12 PM EST

https://www.bio.upenn.edu/events/2025/10/30/arabidopsis-crops-molecular-tool-increase-protein-content-and-broad-disease

The Penn Biology undergraduate event on Friday was a hit... as were the Dunkin' Donuts!

A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain | Penn Today J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from reaching the rest of the brain. Their findings could help clinicians better understand chronic pain a...

This Thursday! Penn Biology social on Oct 16 from 3-5pm in the NBS building.

The Penn Biology department is excited to have Dr Kevin Corbett from UC San Diego visit to give this week's seminar talk, Ubiquitination pathways in bacterial immunity, on Thur, Feb 27 at 12pm EST. Read more and watch via Zoom in the link.
https://www.bio.upenn.edu/events/2025/02/27/ubiquitination-pathways-bacterial-immunity