' Medusa' shaped droplets containing liquid crystal molecules
Droplets containing chain-like liquid crystal molecules are spherical at high temperatures, according to findings by University of Pennsylvania researchers. If the chains inside the droplets are of varying lengths, they transform into "pollen," "flowers," "coral," and "Medusa" shapes when the ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - May 27, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
Flower and coral shaped droplets containing liquid crystal molecules
A study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania shows how droplets containing chain-like liquid crystal molecules transform into complex shapes when the temperature drops. Among the shapes researchers created were these flowers (center) and corals. The researchers controlled the shapes by ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - May 27, 2020 Category: Science Source Type: video
NINR Director's Lecture: At the Intersection of Self-Management and Symptom Science
NINR Director's Lecture
Barbara Riegel, PhD, RN, FPCNA, FHFSA, FAHA, FAAN is a professor of gerontology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing and co-director of the International Center for Self-Care Research.
Dr. Riegel ’ s research interests are in self-care, which includes treatment adherence, condition monitoring, and self-management of symptoms. Dr. Riegel began studying these issues early in her career while a clinical researcher in an acute care setting when hospitals were just beginning to recognize that heart failure was a primary reason for hospital readmissions. She has developed theory and self-...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 14, 2020 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Rational Combinatorial Approaches to Immune Checkpoint Blockade
CCR Grand Rounds
F. Stephen Hodi, M.D., is the Director of the Melanoma Center and the Center for Immuno-Oncology at Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He received his MD degree from Cornell University Medical College in 1992. Dr. Hodi completed his postdoctoral training in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Medical Oncology training at Dana-Farber cancer Institute where he joined the faculty in 1995. His research focuses on gene therapy, the development of immune therapies, and first-in-human studies for malignant melanoma...
Source: Videocast - All Events - February 20, 2019 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Defining mechanisms of pathogenesis in cutaneous leishmaniasis to develop new approaches to therapy
IIG Seminar
Phil Scott received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1980 where he studied immunoregulatory mechanisms in experimental cutaneous leishmaniasis, and from there went to Dr. Alan Sher ’ s laboratory at NIH where he defined the role of CD4+ Th1 and Th2 cells in controlling leishmaniasis. He left NIH in 1989 to return to Penn, and rose through the ranks to become Professor of Immunology in 1995. During his time at Penn he served for 12 years as Chair of the Department of Pathobiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine, and is currently Vice Dean for Research& Academic Resources. Dr. Scott ’ s c...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 26, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey and His Influence in the Changing Business of Healthcare and the Delivery of American Medicine
3rd Annual Michael E. DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine
During his lifetime, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey developed a reputation as a leading voice decrying the growing commercialization of American medicine. At the same time, as the leader of a major medical school and as a clinical and technological innovator, Dr. DeBakey helped to transform how academic medicine and the commercial health care marketplace interacted in Houston and across the globe by working to expand the footprint of cardiovascular surgery in the United States and overseas through program building and consulting agreements as well as developing partn...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Improving the Health and Well-being of Young Transgender Women – Intersections of research, policy and practice
ORWH Women's Health Seminar Series
Nadia Dowshen is a board-certified pediatrician and adolescent medicine specialist. She is a faculty member at Policy Lab at Children ’ s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and serves as Director of Adolescent HIV Services in the Craig Dalsimer Division of Adolescent Medicine at CHOP. She is also an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute. In addition to specialized care for youth living with HIV/AIDS, Dr. Dowshen also provides general adolescent medical care at CHOP and Covenant House, PA, a youth ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - November 13, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
New target to treat heart failure identified (Image 1)
A cage of microtubules surrounds the nucleus in a human heart cell. [Image 1 of 2 related images. See Image 2.]
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Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have found that ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - August 23, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
Regulating Autoimmunity and Autoinflammation: Cytokine blockade and beyond
Immunonology IG Seminar
Richard Siegel's interest in immunology and apoptosis began in the late 1980's at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine where he was an M.D., Ph.D. student. Working with Mark Greene and John Reed, he studied the influence of bcl-2 on T cell apoptosis and repertoire selection. He trained in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, and moved to the NIH in 1996 to do postdoctoral training with Michael Lenardo in the Laboratory of Immunology in the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. There he studied apoptosis signaling and the molec...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 29, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
2-D granular system
A 2-D granular system featured in a University of Pennsylvania study about how disordered systems fail. Blue shows overpacked regions, green shows under packed regions and red shows a transient shear band of the type the researchers are trying to understand.
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Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - April 13, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
Researchers show how to control liquid crystal patterns (Image 2)
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania confined liquid crystals within droplets, creating shells floating in water. To create patterns, they then added surfactants to the water. Because liquid crystals are similar to oil, the surfactants were attracted to the liquid crystal shells, causing ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 14, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
Researchers show how to control liquid crystal patterns (Image 1)
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania confined liquid crystals within droplets, creating shells floating in water. To create patterns, they then added surfactants to the water. Because liquid crystals are similar to oil, the surfactants were attracted to the liquid crystal shells, causing ...This is an NSF Multimedia Gallery item. (Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery)
Source: NSF Multimedia Gallery - March 14, 2018 Category: Science Source Type: video
Law of STAT fives, root orchestrators of lymphocyte homeostasis and function
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
The transcription factor STAT5 is fundamental to the mammalian immune system. Operating downstream of cytokines and growth factors, it impacts all aspects of lymphocyte biology, from general cellular processes like proliferation and apoptosis, to specialized immunological programs like effector and regulatory T cell differentiation. Genetic studies in humans underscore its widespread influence as mutations of STAT5 or upstream activators manifest varied Alejandro Villarino, NIAMS, NIHimmunological phenotypes including immunodeficiency, autoimmunity and hematological malignancies. Mo...
Source: Videocast - All Events - June 20, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Myeloid-derived Trefoil Factor 2 (TFF2) controls epithelial regeneration at the mucosal interface
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Trefoil factor proteins, an enigmatic family of mucosal cytokines, are known to promote tissue repair. Despite being discovered decades ago, not much was known until recently about how Trefoil proteins work. Dr. Herbert ’ s laboratory has discovered that these proteins regulate immune responses in allergic asthma and hookworm infection, and that they trigger the regeneration of epithelial cells.
De ’ Broski Herbert is an Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He received his B.S. in microbiology from Xavier University i...
Source: Videocast - All Events - May 17, 2017 Category: General Medicine Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
Hijacking of immune regulatory mechanisms in lymphoid malignancies
Immunology Interest Group Seminar Series
Signalling through the B cell receptor (BCR) is central to the development and maintenance of B cells. In light of the numerous proliferative and survival pathways activated downstream of the BCR, it comes as no surprise that malignant B cells would co-opt this receptor to promote their own growth and survival. However, direct evidence for BCR signalling in human lymphoma has only come to light recently. Roles for antigen-dependent and antigen-independent, or tonic, BCR signalling have now been described for several different lymphoma subtypes. Furthermore, correlative data implicat...
Source: Videocast - All Events - April 17, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: video
