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Assistant Prof @PennMedicine interest in #RNA regulation, mRNA translation, and adaptative stress responses in cancer bio.
Advocate for Science, Research, Healthy living & Equality #STEM #FirstGen #Nonbinary They/Them
So much already this Fall!
Fantastic posters by our undergraduates, Celebrating Nora's 1% on her F31, our annual pumpkin picking outing, & invited Book Chapter just accepted this week (will share when out).

Happy Fall to All :)
October 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Happy to have another Summer complete for SUPERS'25! They are a phenomenal group that I'm fortunate to interact with for our 10wk program. Special Congratulations to the Winners of the Stephen W. Tuttle Research Award Orly Perez Frid & Kaitlin Chung & hope to have this program another 5+yrs!
August 19, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Oooo pretty new MassSpec data coming in (only slightly hung-up on the 1/78 samples that wasn't perfect lol)
January 31, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Looking forward to sharing our research @rutgersupress.bsky.social tomorrow @12 Nelson D406
January 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Applications for our SUPERS 2025 Summer Internship open today! Share with undergraduates you know interested in learning/studying translational medicine from Cancer Bio, Radiobiology & Imaging, to Medical Physics med.upenn.edu/supers/
December 12, 2024 at 2:14 PM
If you are interested in #RNA regulation, translational control, cancer progression, and/or therapy resistance... (+cookies&Shenanigans):
The Conn Lab is #Hiring for Postdoc and senior research positions @PennMedicine

full description: rnasociety.memberclicks.net/postdoc-and-...
November 15, 2024 at 11:04 PM
Happy to welcome three Summer Undergraduate Scholars to the lab this Summer: Vinny Dong (PURM), Keiko Luke (SUPERS), and Hemanta Adhikari (PURM). Exited to see & share the discoveries they will make on mRNA selection in response to prostate cancer therapy! csconnlab.com/team
June 13, 2024 at 7:13 PM
Looking forward to seeing Andrew Hsieh tonight and hearing about some of their lab's fantastic research tomorrow. It's been too long :) Come join us in Smilow @12
(lunch included) to learn more about how RNA is awesome!
April 24, 2024 at 10:33 PM
Happy Spring to all!
Quick Conn Lab updates:
Ian received the NSF & Ashley will be attending Penn CancerBio for PhD program :) I'm also truly honored to have received the 2024 Michael P. Nusbaum Graduate Student Mentoring Award. Grateful for such spectacular Mentees!
April 18, 2024 at 6:00 PM
Happy New Year from the Conn Lab! Celebrated with great company and gift exchange/heisting ;) Great year growing the team, collaborations, and moving along lots of new research. Best wishes to all for 2024!
#RNAisAwesome #ConnLabShenanigans
January 2, 2024 at 1:34 AM
Embracing Fall together... apple picking, picking, corn maze, bonfires and #connlabshenanigans
October 25, 2023 at 2:48 PM