4 years ago
Nathaniel Wesley successfully defended his thesis on August 17th, 2022, titled, “Characterization of Chromatin Interactions using TR-FRET.” The work was completed under the direction of Robert K. McGinty, MD, PhD.
4 years ago
The School of Medicine is soliciting innovative scientific images that showcase the biomedical research in the School. Submissions are due September 19.
4 years ago
Experiments from the UNC School of Medicine lab of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, show how a common molecular tool for DNA labeling also has anticancer properties worthy of further investigation, especially for brain cancers.
4 years ago
The incoming cohort of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program students joined 2nd-year students and program directors, Brian Kuhlman and Kevin Slep, for a bowling social on August 17, 2022, at Mardi Gras Bowling Center in Chapel Hill.
4 years ago
On August 16, 2022, the BCBP postdoc committee hosted its first Postdoc Coffee Hour of 2022-23. Our Postdocs enjoyed the coffee, iced tea, and some snacks from Panera.
4 years ago
BCBP postdocs joined up with the UNC Postdoc Association (PDA) for the event Fridays on the Front Porch at the Carolina Inn. PDA hosts a postdoc meetup at Fridays on the Front Porch at the end of each month and it's a great opportunity to meet postdocs from other departments at UNC.
4 years ago
This spring, Sarah Harris, a member of the Dominguez lab, received the Barry Lentz Travel Award. Sarah traveled to the Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation Gordon Research Conference this summer and gave a poster presentation titled “Evolution of the RNA binding and regulations.” Sarah is a 4th year trainee in the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program and a …
4 years ago
The Graduate School welcomed more than 700 graduate students at an in-person orientation on Wednesday, August 10; they join nearly 2,500 incoming graduate students from all areas of campus. Dean Suzanne Barbour provided words of wisdom from her time as a graduate student.
4 years ago
Geoffrey Fox – a student perspective on being awarded a poster prize at a national research conference. This year’s Van Andel Institute (VAI) Epigenetics Symposium: 20(+2) Years of the Histone Code was a special one for UNC and the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics because it was centered around celebrating the 20th anniversary of the …
4 years ago
The Biochemistry and Biophysics department announces the dates for Fall 2022 BCBP seminars. We encourage incoming BBSP students to attend the Biochemistry and Biophysics seminars and social events to get to know our people and opportunities.
4 years ago
Rotation projects are available in cardiovascular disease and cancer to 1) translate lipid inhibitors of platelet aggregation into therapeutics to prevent thrombotic events and 2) use targeted and systems biology approaches to explore CIB1 in cancer cell and endothelial cell biology.
4 years ago
Dr. Gabby Budziszewski accepts Operations Manager position at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute's High-Throughput Crystallography Center in Buffalo, NY!