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The National Cancer Institute has awarded a team led by UNC Lineberger’s Dale Ramsden, PhD, professor in the UNC School of Medicine Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, a five-year, $8.8 million program project grant to study an enzyme called DNA polymerase theta. This enzyme is part of an important pathway that repairs damage to genomes, with particular significance …

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Carolina also ranked in the top 20 for 11 academic subject areas according to the 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities released by the Shanghai Ranking Consultancy on August 15.

Congratulations to Dr. Wentao Li on his new Assistant Professor position with the Department of Environmental Health Science at University of Georgia.

After completing his PhD degree studying transcriptional kinases in yeast, Pengda Liu had one goal for his career: to make a difference for human health. Today, he is on the cusp of advancing a promising compound into the drug discovery and development pipeline. If successful, it would become the first targeted treatment for patients with …

postdoc Dr. Yanqiong Zhang in Liu lab, Dr. Zhe Ma in Damania lab and a BBSP student Ying Wang

Hyperactivation of innate immunity results in autoimmune diseases, while deficiency in innate immunity is prone to tumorigenesis. Thus, the activity of innate immune signaling is tightly controlled but the regulatory mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. Recently, the labs of Liu and Damania published a study in iScience revealing a role of the bacterial protein streptavidin in binding and facilitating cGAS activation.

It is known that the three-dimensional organization of the genome within the nucleus is important for proper gene expression and ultimately development. The mechanisms behind this organization, however, are not yet fully understood. Recently, the lab of Jill Dowen, PhD, published a study in Epigenetics & Chromatin solving a piece of this complex puzzle.

Carolina is pausing all undergraduate instruction on Aug. 24 and Aug. 25 to help students catch their breath and make the transition to remote learning. Undergraduate classes will resume Aug. 26

Cassandra Hayne (2017) shares two publications one on SARS-COV-2 and one breakthrough article in Nucleic Acids Research journal.

Gabrielle Dardis, a BCBP graduate student in Albert Baldwin’s lab (Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center), was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship.

Effective Wednesday, August 19, all undergraduate in-person instruction will shift to remote learning. Courses in our graduate, professional and health affairs schools will continue to be taught as they are, or as directed by the schools. Academic advising and academic support services will be available online. Our research enterprise will remain unchanged.

Clustered heatmaps displaying STAG1, STAG2, RAD21, and CTCF signal (Z-score normalized) at a union list of STAG1 and STAG2 peaks.

Nicole Arruda (Jill Dowen lab) published a paper titled “Distinct and overlapping roles of STAG1 and STAG2 in cohesin localization and gene expression in embryonic stem cells” in Epigenetics and Chromatin (DOI:10.1186/s13072-020-00353-9). GMB student Megan Justice is a co-author. Image: Heatmaps of expression changes in Stag1 and Stag2 mutant cells and of STAG1 and STAG2 ChIP-seq; see article for details). August 10, 2020 Arruda, …

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Ramsden, Gupta awarded 5-year, $8.8 million grant to study an enzyme that has important implications for breast and ovarian cancer

New faculty support website centralizes key resources

UNC-Chapel Hill ranked 30th in 2020 Academic Ranking of World Universities

Wentao Li accepts faculty position at University of Georgia

Pengda Liu receives AIMS Award: Progress Toward a Targeted Oncology Treatment

Liu and Damania Labs identified new proteins controlling cGAS activation

Dowen lab untangles another part of the 3D genome

University leaders announce important academic updates

Cassandra K. Hayne’s 2 recent publications: SARS-COV-2 and NAR paper

Graduate Student Gabrielle Dardis awarded NCI F31

Carolina Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz Updates the Roadmap August 17

Nicole Arruda in Dowen lab publishes paper in Epigenetics and Chromatin