6 years ago
Carolina Student Impact Fund to Help Students Affected by COVID-19
UNC graduate students facing financial hardships because of the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak can apply for assistance through the Carolina Student Impact Fund.
Category: News
6 years ago
Wolfgang Bergmeier, Ph.D., in Collaboration With A Multi-Institutional Team, Publish In Science Advances
Congratulations to Wolfgang Bergmeier, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, in collaboration with a multi-institutional team, for publishing article in the journal Science Advances. Dr. Bergmeier and the team explain why platelet responses are associated with organ injury and mortality after cardiac surgeries and how platelets cause local and systemic inflammation via mast cell …
6 years ago
UNC launches new website: Keep Teaching COVID-19 Information & Resources for Faculty
COVID-19 has challenged our campus community in many ways. Among the challenges facing instructors is making the sudden, unanticipated shift to using remote instructional tools and methods. This site provides resources, advice, and ways of finding help in making that transition. This is a very active site, with new content appearing daily, so we invite …
6 years ago
Stay safe in 2020!
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.
6 years ago
Congratulations to graduate student Jean Marie Mwiza who was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by the AHA
Graduate Research Assistant, Jean Marie Mwiza, Receives Prestigious Predoctoral Fellowship From American Heart Association (AHA) Congratulations to Jean Marie Mwiza, a graduate research assistant in Dr. Bergmeier’s Lab, for recently receiving a prestigious predoctoral fellowship from AHA! Mr. Mwiza is a pathology graduate student who is jointly supervised by Alisa Wolberg in Pathology and Wolfgang …
6 years ago
Graduate Student Julia DiFiore receives her PhD!
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 …
6 years ago
Yasemin Cole Receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship
School of Medicine student Yasemin Cole will be attending the University of Cambridge pursuing a doctoral degree in genomic sciences. She was one of 28 individuals chosen nationwide for the competitive and fully funded scholarship.
6 years ago
Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research makes cover of JTH!
Campbell and Bergmeier labs collaborative research featured on the cover of the March 2020 issue of the Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (JTH)!
6 years ago
Grad student Juan Carvajal-Garcia in Ramsden lab publishes paper on DNA Repair in Drosophila melanogaster, a species of fly
J. Carvajal-Garcia, E.R. Gales, D.A. Ramsden, and J. Sekelsky (2020). The Drosophila melanogaster ortholog of RFWD3 functions independently of RAD51 during DNA repair. G3 (Bethesda) 10: 999-1004. doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400903. Abstract Repair of damaged DNA is required for the viability of all organisms. Studies in Drosophila melanogaster, driven by the power of genetic screens, pioneered the discovery and characterization of many …
6 years ago
Graduate student Hanna Trzeciakiewicz receives her PhD!
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 …
6 years ago
Robert Lee PhD promoted to Research Assistant Professor
On March 1, 2020, Robert Lee, Ph.D. was promoted to Research Assistant Professor. His research is centered around platelet signaling and function.
6 years ago
Parise named Dean of the University of Vermont’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Leslie Parise, PhD has been named Dean of the University of Vermont's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Leslie will begin her new position on May 15.