Undergraduate School

B.A., Northwestern University, Evanston IL 1997

Medical School

M.D., University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle WA 2006

Other School

Ph.D., Molecular Biology, University of Washington/ Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle WA 2004

Internship

Internal Medicine, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford CA 2006-2007

Residency

Internal Medicine, Stanford University Hospital, Stanford CA 2007-2009

Fellowship

Infectious Diseases, UC San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco CA 2009-2011

Pew Biomedical Scholar,

Chief Fellow, infectious diseases fellowship, University of California San Francisco, 2010

Clinical Excellence Award, top internal medicine resident clinician, Stanford Hospital, 2009

Truong T, Penn BH. An M. tuberculosis Metabolic Enzyme Moonlights as an Anti-Inflammatory Effector Protein. Cell Host Microbe. 2020 Mar 11;27(3):310-312. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2020.02.012. PMID:32164839.

Penn BH, Netter Z, Johnson JR, Von Dollen J, Jang GM, Johnson T, Ohol YM, Maher C, Bell SL, Geiger K, Golovkine G, Du X, Choi A, Parry T, Mohapatra BC, Storck MD, Band H, Chen C, Jäger S, Shales M, Portnoy DA, Hernandez R, Coscoy L, Cox JS, Krogan NJ. An Mtb-Human Protein-Protein Interaction Map Identifies a Switch between Host Antiviral and Antibacterial Responses. Mol Cell. 2018 Aug 16;71(4):637-648.e5. doi:10.1016/j.molcel.2018.07.010. PMID:30118682.

Penn BH, Netter Z, Johnson, J. Ohol Y, Maher C., Bell S, Von Dollen J, Geiger K, Du X, Choi A, Parry T, Naramura M, Jang G, Johnson T, Chen C, Jaeger S, Shales M, Portnoy D, Hernandez R, Coscoy L, Krogan NJ and Cox JS. A Mtb-Human Protein-Protein Interaction Map Reveals a Role for the Ubiquitin Ligase CBL in Regulating the Balance Between Host Anti-Viral and Anti-Bacterial Responses. Mol. Cell. 2017 Oct 17. Preprint: bioRxiv. doi.org/10.1101/202598.

Penn BH, Cox JS. Immunology: Organelle stress triggers inflammation. Nature. 2016 Apr 21;532(7599):321-2. doi:10.1038/nature17882. Epub 2016 Apr 6. PMID:27049940.

Mirrashidi KM, Elwell CA, Verschueren E, Johnson JR, Frando A, Von Dollen J, Rosenberg O, Gulbahce N, Jang G, Johnson T, Jäger S, Gopalakrishnan AM, Sherry J, Dunn JD, Olive A, Penn B, Shales M, Cox JS, Starnbach MN, Derre I, Valdivia R, Krogan NJ, Engel J. Global Mapping of the Inc-Human Interactome Reveals that Retromer Restricts Chlamydia Infection. Cell Host Microbe. 2015 Jul 8;18(1):109-21. doi:10.1016/j.chom.2015.06.004. Epub 2015 Jun 25. PMID:26118995.

Ercegovac UC, Metcalfe TL, Penn BH, Smith KM, Elmore JG. Traveling as a risk factor for venous thromboembolic disease. Respir Care. 2006 Oct;51(10):1177–80.

Berkes CA, Bergstrom DA, Penn BH, Seaver KJ, Knoepfler PS, Tapscott SJ. Pbx marks genes for activation by MyoD indicating a role for a homeodomain protein in establishing myogenic potential. Mol Cell. 2004 May 21;14(4):465-77. doi:10.1016/s1097-2765(04)00260-6. PMID:15149596.

Bergstrom DA, Penn BH, Strand A, Perry RL, Rudnicki MA, Tapscott SJ. Promoter-specific regulation of MyoD binding and signal transduction cooperate to pattern gene expression. Mol Cell. 2002 Mar;9(3):587-600. doi:10.1016/s1097-2765(02)00481-1. PMID:11931766.

Penn BH, Berkes CA, Bergstrom DA, Tapscott SJ. How to MEK muscle. Mol Cell. 2001 Aug;8(2).

Filippova GN, Thienes CP, Penn BH, Cho DH, Hu YJ, Moore JM, Klesert TR, Lobanenkov VV, Tapscott SJ. CTCF-binding sites flank CTG/CAG repeats and form a methylation-sensitive insulator at the DM1 locus. Nat Genet. 2001 Aug;28(4):335-43. doi:10.1038/ng570. PMID:11479593.