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Sierra Archibald, undergraduate researcher

Sierra Archibald in Aziz Sancar lab works along side of senior researchers whose work focuses on DNA damage repair, cell cycle checkpoints, circadian clock.

Pedro N. Pozo (in white) with family and Jean Cook PhD (in red)

Graduate students: AMY BYRNES, LIOR VERED, SHARON GUFFY, and PEDRO N. POZO gave their defenses this year.

Aspen Gutgsell graduate student of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Aspen was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by AHA, and the best graduate student poster at the Southeast Lipid Research Conference in Nashville, TN on November 2, 2018, as well as the best poster at our departmental research retreat in October 2018.

Postdoc from Aziz Sancar lab Wentao Li holds plaque from UNC PARE award 2018 ceremony

Wentao Li, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Aziz Sancar, has received the 2018 EMGS New Investigator Travel Award & 2018 PARE Award.

Students presented their research on October 18 and November 1, 2018 at the Biochemistry and Biophysics Student Symposium. “A more Grown Up Story on Lipase Maturation Factor 1 in ER Redox Homeostasis” Benjamin Roberts, Neher lab “Thermostability and its role in Dengue and Zika Vaccine Antigen Design” Stephan Kudlacek, Kuhlman lab “Dynamically Changing G9a Interactome …

Courtney Vaughn, MD-PhD student in the lab of Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, was awarded the Scott Neil Schwirck fellowship.

Taking a short break from research and books Pumpkin Carving with graduate students.

Well wishers came to cheer on the finalists of the UNC Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis competition in Bondurant Hall G100 Tuesday October 30. Of the ten finalists, three are are from UNC School of Medicine departments: Alex Chung in the Parise lab, and Susanna Harris and Bhawana Shrestha in microbiology and immunology. The Three Minute …

Sessions focused on RNA Structure and Dynamics, Cellular Microenvironments, Protein Engineering and Design, and Blood Coagulation.

3-D structure of CF protein in active, inactive states

In the Riordan lab, postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Fay, PhD, led experiments using single-particle cryoEM to discover...

photo of Oliver Smithies and Aziz Sancar

The prize honors Sancar’s work mapping the cellular mechanisms that underlie DNA repair, which occurs every minute due to environmental factors. He credited his success to his many collaborators, and to UNC’s supportive environment.

There were excellent department talks and posters, and a host of team building activities that made this year’s retreat an engaging and exciting event!

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UNC Undergraduate Research Week November 5 – 9

Student Defenses for 2018

Congratulations to Aspen Gutgsell who was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by the AHA and winner of best poster at the Southeast Lipid Research Conference!

Li, postdoctoral fellow in Sancar lab, receives 2018 EMGS and PARE Awards

2018 Student Symposium

Courtney Vaughn awarded the Scott Neil Schwirck fellowship

Pumpkin Carving Madness

Alex Chung Makes it to Three Minute Thesis finals

11th Biennial North Carolina Biophysics Symposium brought together North Carolina Biophysicists

UNC scientists solve 3-D structure of CF protein in active, inactive states

Nobel Laureate: Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D. featured in Carolina Stories

2018 Research Retreat held at Graylyn on October 4 and 5th