Report summary

The 2015-2017 picture for University of Pennsylvania Department of Biology is a 37-PI network with 15 internal PI collaborations. The main research signal is Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as the leading field (37% of slots across 25 PIs; 25 labels), Molecular Biology as the leading subfield (16% of slots across 14 PIs; 14 labels), and Animal Behavior and Reproduction as the leading topic (5% of slots across 5 PIs; 5 labels). That is a thin collaboration pattern, useful for spotting individual pairs but less persuasive as a broad departmental network. The leading PI names are Shelley L. Berger (11 weighted works; Epigenetics and DNA Methylation, Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics). The clearest collaboration lines are David M. McCandlish and Joshua B. Plotkin (5 shared works, weight 4.1). The leading breakdown groups are group 1 with 10 PIs, 10 internal connections, weight 9.6, around Molecular Biology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cell Biology, led by Shelley L. Berger, Ted Abel, Brian D. Gregory.