18 hours ago
We are pleased to welcome our new visiting scholar and postdoctoral fellow from Brazil. She is joining Campbell lab and is currently studying the physico-chemical assessment of the interaction between Protein Disulfide Isomerase (PDIA1) and Rho-Guanine Dissociation Inhibitor (RhoGDIα). Please welcome Gabi!
22 hours ago
On September 20th, for postdoc appreciation week, postdocs and research scholars gathered for lunch from the Armadillo grill and socialized over board games on the third floor of Genetic Medicine Building. Thank you to everyone for your hard work you put in to grow in science and contribute to our research department.
23 hours ago
Benjamin Kornegay, a graduate student in Jill Dowen's lab, is the recipient of a 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP) award. Selected from a pool of exceptionally talented applicants...
4 days ago
Congratulations to Dr. Xuemei Cao on her promotion to Research Associate on Sep 18, 2023. She has been a member of the Sancar lab since 2018.
1 week ago
"So where do we start? Perhaps, as Dr. Rosenstein indicated, we start with each other." Repeated trauma, especially traumas as similar and close together as the two lockdowns UNC-Chapel Hill has experienced, can be difficult. Navigating trauma is highly individualized and not at all linear. Whatever you are feeling, however you are responding, is valid.
1 week ago
Aki Braceros successfully defended her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Mauro Calabrese on September 8, 2023, and she has received her PhD. The title of her dissertation is “Epigenetic regulation of gene expression by long non-coding RNAs.”
2 weeks ago
The Center for Faculty Excellence and Targeting Equity in Access to Mentoring (TEAM) ADVANCE invite faculty to participate in its Peer Mentoring Circles program for 2023-24. The program supports the professional development of early-career faculty and encourages peer connections, networking, community-building and self-advocacy. Early-career faculty, assistant professor rank, whether pre-tenure or fixed-term, are encouraged to sign up for a peer circle. Experienced faculty, either advance associate or full professors, are invited to support the program as circles mentors. Faculty can pre-register for the program through Sept.15.
2 weeks ago
The UNC RNA Discovery Center has awarded three fellowship grants to support innovative research investigating various roles of RNA in health and disease. Two out of the three fellowships were awarded to members of the BCBP department. The Collaborative Team Science Fellowship goes to Qi Zhang, PhD, Joshua Boyer, PhD, and Ron Swanstrom, PhD. James Emerson was awarded the Marzluff Graduate Fellowship.
2 weeks ago
Big thanks to BCBP administrators for providing snacks and games on Thursday, August 31, 2023, our first official day back from campus Condition 3.
3 weeks ago
Learn more about our current graduate students in our new spotlight series for the academic year 2023-2024. Our September spotlight features Dalia Fleifel who is a graduate student in the Biochemistry PhD program and member of the Cook lab.
3 weeks ago
Trauma can make it hard to go about your normal life. It can shake your sense of safety — on campus and beyond. UNC Healthy Heels offers mental health strategies to cope with a traumatic events.
4 weeks ago
Congratulations to Dr. Dale Ramsden, on his recent year 20 renewal of a grant from NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his project entitled “DNA Polymerases in Nonhomologous End Joining” for $405,547 that began on July 1st.
