6 years ago
Pet Sitting and Subsidized Childcare Resource Available – Juggle @ UNC
UNC Health/UNC School of Medicine has created a new partnership with Juggle, a babysitting and pet sitting app to support...
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6 years ago
Researchers discover proton regulator of essential cancer microRNA
Zhang lab used nuclear magnetic resonance imagine to discover an RNA-centric mechanism for regulating the creation of a microRNA in response to environmental stimuli.
6 years ago
Odessa Goudy presented at 3MT finals
Odessa Goudy presented her thesis “From Computer Models to Cancer Drugs: Creating Inhibitor Proteins to Combat Cancer” in 3 minutes at the UNC Graduate School’s 3MT finals on October 21.
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Student Spotlight: Najla Ward-Conyers
Najla Ward-Conyers, an undergraduate researcher in Neher lab was featured on the Chancellor’s Science Scholar website for 2020 University Research Week.
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UNC SOM Annual Faculty Meeting: Share your feedback
Please take a moment to complete a brief survey and share your thoughts on the School of Medicine’s annual faculty meeting, held Oct. 14.
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David Paul, PhD and Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD publish latest research in Blood
Talin-1 is the principal platelet Rap1 effector of integrin activation PLATELETS AND THROMBOPOIESIS September 3, 2020 Recent Blood paper publication, collaborated with Mark Ginsberg, MD at UCSD to identify a unique mechanism regulating integrin-mediated platelet adhesion at sites of vascular injury
6 years ago
Tackling tough challenges
By fostering collaborative research teams, Carolina is accelerating new discoveries and solutions to emerging challenges. Read the UNC.edu feature on some of the work faculty, students, postdocs, and fellows are spearheading.
6 years ago
Odessa Goudy makes it to Three Minute Thesis finals
Congratulations to graduate student Odessa Goudy in the Brian Kuhlman lab for making it to the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finals! As part of the UNC Research Week, the Finals will be live streamed on October 21, 2000 at 7 pm. Please cheer on Odessa virtually on Wednesday night.
6 years ago
Kathryn Gunn receives the 2020 Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence
Kathryn Gunn received the 2020 Postdoctoral Award for Research Excellence (PARE) from UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs. The 2020 PARE Awards ceremony will be held virtually on October 20, 2020 3-4:30pm. Kathryn Gunn PhD and the other awardees will give a brief presentation at the ceremony.
6 years ago
Graduate Student Cathy Spangler in McGinty lab uses cryo-EM to determine structure of cGAS
Cathy Spangler published a paper in collaboration with Joshua Boyer, Joshua Strauss, Andrew Cesmat, Pengda Liu, Robert McGinty, and Qi Zhang, titled "Structural basis of nucleosome-dependent cGAS inhibition."
6 years ago
Wolfgang Bergmeier appointed to Haima Therapeutics Scientific Advisory Board
Haima Therapeutics, a pre-clinical biotechnology company focused on developing platelet-inspired therapies to mitigate bleeding dysfunctions, announced today the appointment of Wolfgang Bergmeier to its Scientific Advisory Board (SAB). Dr. Bergmeier is a world-renowned scientist and key opinion leader in platelet biology, hemostasis, and thrombosis. He is currently a Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at The …
6 years ago
Researchers Reveal Safeguarding of a Key DNA Sensor in the Innate Immune System
Led by Qi Zhang, PhD, and Robert McGinty, MD, PhD, UNC-Chapel Hill scientists used cryo-electron microscopy technology to produce the first-ever high-resolution structure of the protein cGAS bound to the DNA packaging unit inside human cell nuclei, revealing how cGAS responds to foreign or damaged DNA, but not the body’s healthy DNA.