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For 2025 National Postdoctoral Appreciation week, we are highlighting 11 of our outstanding postdoctoral researchers in our labs. (Click to read more.)

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The Special Master’s Program for employees in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics enables laboratory employees to pursue a Master’s degree on a part-time basis while working full-time in the Department.

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Welcome, Adam Graves, PhD, Postdoc in the Tamir lab!  Adam completed his graduate research at UNC in Albert Baldwin’s lab in Pharmacology, focusing on intracellular signaling and the roles of innate immune kinases in pancreatic cancer. He’s passionate about proteomic and metabolomic approaches, and outside the lab, he enjoys mountain biking, music, and working on …

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Dr. Dale Ramsden receives Battle Award for groundbreaking genome stability research. Dr. Dale Ramsden was honored with the 2024 Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award at a ceremony on August 18 in the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center atrium, surrounded by colleagues and supporters. Read more. 

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Dr. Joshua Strauss, Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics and Director of the UNC Cryo-EM Core, was awarded an NIH S10 High End Instrumentation grant to purchase a 300 keV cryogenic-transmission electron microscope.

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The UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics Postdoc committee introduced our new Chair Logan Slade PhD (Cook lab), in 2024. If you are a postdoc or visiting scientist and would like to be involved in the committee, please contact Logan Slade at lgnslade@email.unc.edu for more information. 

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We’re excited to introduce our Graduate Education Committee (GECO) representatives for the upcoming academic year: Maria Al Haddad will serve as the Biochemistry track representative and Trevor Mileur will represent the Biophysics track.

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Announcing our new Biochemistry and Biophysics social chairs for the 2025-2026 academic year.  BCBP Student Social Chairs will organize social events for the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Thank you in advance for your service.  Maria Al Haddad  Aspen Hawkins  Jacob Hughes  Emily Grace Clark  Giselle Prida  Jamie Do  Elise Liebow  BCBP Student Social Chairs are responsible for organizing …

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In a surprising twist, UNC scientists discovered that SETD2, a tumor suppressor, also preserves nuclear structure during cell division—a hidden role that may explain its tumor-suppressive effects in cancer. UNC biochemists Brian Strahl, PhD, and Abid Khan, PhD, discovered that the enzyme also plays a crucial structural role in preserving the shape and integrity of the nucleus – part of the cell that stores DNA.

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Welcome to our new postdoc in Chrystal Starbird’s lab, Steven Moran PhD!

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The Cook Lab at UNC investigates how cell proliferation is regulated and how diseases disrupt these processes. Their work provides the foundation for developing targeted therapies that have shown promising success in treating cancers such as breast cancer.

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Camila Arango, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics (Starbird Lab), was selected as one of just 22 international participants for the inaugural Salamanca International Advanced Biophysics and Structural Biology Course, organized by Eva Nogales and Carlos Bustamante. The course, held from June 29th to July 5th in Salamanca, Spain, provides intensive …

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