A Mexico City native, Terrones has been a professor at Penn State for 13 years
Cervone will serve as president for the next two years.
The lab uses a combination of human genomics, computational biology, and functional studies, using Drosophila and human cell lines, to understand the risks caused by genetic mutations and to grasp how gene disruption leads to altered neurodevelopment.
Hosted by the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Silicon Valley meets Happy valley in a week chalked full of notable speakers, workshops, networking events, and think tanks.
Penn State will play a big role in planetary research after a research team was selected by NASA to construct a revolutionary new detection instrument.
Dr. Christopher Uhl teaches BiSci 003, but it's not your typical environmental science course. “One of the things that’s hard to grasp about BiSci is that we’ve been conditioned to think so little of our own ability to learn,” Dr. Uhl said.