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Aspen Gutgsell under the direction of Dr. Saskia Neher, successfully defended her dissertation on March 30, 2020 and received her PhD!

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  Edhriz Siraliev-Perez under the direction of Dr. John Sondek, successfully defended his dissertation on March 27, 2020 and received his PhD!     The title of his dissertation is “Dynamics of Allosteric Activation of PLC-gamma Isozymes.” During his tenure at UNC, Edhriz’ dedicated three and a half years to the Science Policy Advocacy Group …

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Liu’s lab focuses on focuses on deciphering signaling events that drive cancer development, with the goal of developing new biomarkers for patient selection and identifying drug targets and potential therapeutics.

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Stay safe in 2020! Live with LP is back on the air. This edition will cover events from November 2019 through February 2020. As you all know, COVID-19 has taken over our lives. However, so many wonderful things have happened in the department over the past few months. Since we anticipate significant changes in our operations for the foreseeable future, please follow university coronavirus updates closely and stay safe! Many thanks to Carolyn Clabo for helping me assemble this edition.

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Julia DiFiore, under the direction of Dr. Brian Strahl, successfully defended her dissertation on March 13, 2020 and received her PhD! The title of her dissertation is “Examining the Biological Functions of the H3K36 Methylation States in Transcription Regulation and the Post-Translational Modification Landscape of Set2.” While at UNC, Julia was also active in outreach …

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Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research featured on the cover of the March 2020 issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH)!

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Hanna Trzeciakiewicz under the direction of Dr. Todd Cohen, successfully defended her dissertation on March 6, 2020 and received her PhD! The title of his dissertation is “The Regulation of Tau Pathogenesis in Neurodegeneration” Hanna is a NSF GRFP Fellow. She also received the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in Biological & Life Sciences in addition …

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On March 1, 2020, Robert Lee, PhD was promoted to Research Assistant Professor. His centered around platelet signaling and function.

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Researchers led by UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center’s Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, described the role of a mutation in the Mre11 gene in triple negative breast cancer and how a disruption of Mre11 function plays a significant role in the genomic instability of that cancer type. February 17, 2020 A hallmark of triple negative breast …

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On February 10th 2020, graduate student Odessa Goudy of Kuhlman lab gave a talk at Winter RosettaCON entitled, “Designing safer cancer immunotherapies: Autoinhibited PD-1 decoys.” Winter RosettaCON was held at the Simons Foundation, 160 Fifth Avenue in New York City, NY.  

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