Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State University. The Mahony lab at Penn State University is part of the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. And the Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation. We are computational biologists who develop machine-learning approaches for understanding gene regulation. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Center for Eukaryotic Gene Regulation. Center for Comparative Genomics and Bioinformatics. Tim Kunz wins honors thesis award.