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National Academy of Sciences announced on January 24, 2022, that Carrie Partch Ph.D., Professor of chemistry & biochemistry at UC-Santa Cruz, has received an Award in Molecular Biology, recognizing a “recent notable discovery in molecular biology by a young scientist who is a citizen of the US.” Dr. Partch is an alumna of Biochemistry and Biophysics and the Aziz Sancar lab.
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UNC Graduate students have the opportunity to join the team of summer mentors. We encourage our students to mentor undergraduates this summer. The deadline for the 2022 summer program is on January 28, 2022...
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This past semester, Abigail Ballard, Odessa Goudy, and Morgan Walker served as Shadow A Scientist graduate student science ambassadors.
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Nazli Deger successfully defended her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Aziz Sancar on January 12th, 2021 and she has received her PhD. The title of her dissertation is "Nucleotide Excision Repair Map of Drosophila Melanogaster at a Single Nucleotide Resolution".
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Research by Matthew Redinbo Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Joint Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics and Microbiology & Immunology, was featured on UNC's The Well. A new study conducted in mice demonstrates precisely how triclosan, an antimicrobial found in toothpaste, toys, and thousands of other products, can trigger gut inflammation.
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Project Title: Visualizing lipoprotein lipase quaternary structure in situ...
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Project title: Targeting ATR/SPOP Signaling to Overcome Chemotherapy Resistance in Ewing Sarcoma
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Project Title: Dissecting and targeting canonical and non-canonical oncogenic functions of EZH2 in cancer
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— January 25 (Virtual) Elizabeth Kellogg, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept. of Molecular Biology & Genetics Cornell University Host: Brian Kuhlman Title: Mechanistic studies of CRISPR-associated transposons (CAST) using cryo-EM February 8 (Virtual) Peter Penzes, Ph.D., Director, Center for Autism and Neurodevelopment Northwestern University -Host: Patricia Maness Title: Synaptic biology of ankyrin February 15 …
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The Andrew McDonough B+ Foundation awarded Pengda Liu, PhD, a two-year grant totaling $150,000 to support his research targeting ATR/SPOP signaling to overcome chemotherapy resistance in Ewing sarcoma. Read about the grant.
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Brenda Temple PhD, Professor of biochemistry and biophysics and Core Director of Structural Bioinformatics, among the 800 nominations and 25 winners of the 2022 UNC Teaching Awards!
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Pat Lackey, PhD, Biochemistry and Biophysics and Marzluff lab alumnus will be on Jeopardy THURSDAY NIGHT, January 20 on ABC channel 11 at 7 PM!