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UNC postdoctoral researcher joins international conversation on racism, for spotlight in Nature Nikea Pittman, PhD, a structural biologist and postdoctoral fellow at the UNC School of Medicine, was featured in a Nature article that included insights from six black scientists from the United States and Europe.
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This is a weekly update on the campus Roadmap to Fall 2020 from the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Provost, issued Thursday June 25.
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Congratulations to Biochemistry and Biophysics faculty Brenda Temple promoted from associate professor to full professor effective June 1, 2020. Brenda Temple PhD is the Core Director of Structural Bioinformatics. Her research specialties include: Bioinformatics, Molecular Structural Analysis, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Molecular Evolution, Molecular Modeling, Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Structural Bioinformatics Website
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Silvia Ramos presented a Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion message at the June 2020 BCBP faculty meeting during multiple crises among those including anti-black violence, mental health, and COVID-19. She emphasized the important of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and how to continue our efforts within the department.
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The Jill Dowen Lab is committed to providing a safe, inclusive, and supportive environment. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and groups, including those under-represented in higher education and the scientific community. This commitment to diversity and inclusion allows us to: Stimulate creativity and innovation in our academic endeavors Value multiple ways of thinking and …
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In the journal Cell Reports, Brian Strahl, PhD, and colleagues engineered a genome regulator to reveal its important biological functions of genome access. Inside our cells, DNA is tightly packed and spooled around proteins called histones. Packaging DNA in this way allows large amounts of genetic material to exist inside the cell in a final …
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Pengda Liu receives a Medical Research Grant from Gabrielle’s Angels Foundation to study “Targeting innate immunity independent STING function in treating AML”
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Dr. Wesley Burks, CEO of UNC Health and Dean of the UNC School of Medicine, shares a message with the UNC Health community. Dear UNC Health and UNC School of Medicine colleagues, I spent much of the past weekend taking in the images, videos, and news, and thinking about George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna …
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Jennifer M. Potter-Birriel, under the direction of Dr. Bill Marzluff, successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology on June 3rd, 2020. The title of her dissertation is “A region of Drosophila SLBP distinct from the histone pre-mRNA binding and processing domains is essential for deposition of histone mRNA in …
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The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development is offering virtual coaching to all School of Medicine faculty. Services include peer and executive coaching.
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In this memo, Blossom Damania, PhD, Vice Dean for Research at the UNC School of Medicine, outlines measures to allow the safe resumption of lab-based and human subjects research at the UNC School of Medicine. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research across campus has been limited to minimal critical activities and research related to …
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The UNC Office of Research Development is aggregating COVID-19 funding opportunities for the research community. The UNC Office of Research Development is centrally tracking COVID-19 funding opportunities to provide a resource to the campus-wide research community. The funding opportunities are listed on the COVID-19 Funding Opportunities website linked here. Information about COVID-19 funding opportunities will be added to the page as they become available.
