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Jon successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on July 1, 2014.

We welcome Dr. Silvia Ramos who has just joined the lab of Dr. Bill Marzluff as a new research faculty member in the Department.

Congratulations to Dr. Dileep Varma on his new tenure-track faculty position with the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago.

Congratulatons to Dr. Shobhan Gaddameedhi on his new Assistant Professor position with the Department of Experimental and Systems Pharmacology at Washington State University.

Drs. Brian Strahl, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics at UNC-Chapel Hill along with Or Gozani, Associate Professor at Stanford, and Mark Bedford, Professor of Molecular Carcinogenesis at the University of Texas are the scientific founders of EpiCypher, a company that develops and manufactures novel products and tools for epigenetics and chromatin biology research. As of earlier this month, the operations have been moved from Texas to UNC-Chapel Hill campus.

Ivan successfully defended his dissertation and received his PhD on June 23, 2014.

Gauri Dixit, PhD and Henrik Dohlman, PhD

In the June 19, 2014 edition of Molecular Cell, the Dohlman lab publishes a paper "Cellular Noise Suppression by the Regulator of G Protein Signaling Sst2."

Congrats to Joseph Pearson for publishing a first author paper in Developmental Biology. His article "Enhancer diversity and the control of a simple pattern of Drosophila CNS midline cell expression" was available online ahead of print on May 20, 2014.

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Strahl, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics for receiving grants from the NIH and NSF

Backrow (left to right): Jared Baisden, Benfeard Williams, Jacob Matson and Hashem Meriesh Frontrow (left to right): Sharon Guffy, Hyunna Lee and Andrew Learnera

Learn more about our new entering class of students and help us welcome them to the department.

The discovery, from the lab of Brian Strahl, PhD, offers insights for the creation of better, more targeted therapies for various forms of cancer.

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Alum News

Grad Student Jon Leano receives his PhD

Silvia Ramos joins the Department

Postdoc Dileep Varma accepts faculty position at Northwestern

Postdoc Shobhan Gaddameedhi accepts faculty position at Washington State

EpiCypher co-founded by Brian Strahl is moving to Chapel Hill

Grad Student Ivan Sabath receives his PhD

Dohlman lab publishes in Molecular Cell

Joseph Pearson from the Crews lab publishes in Developmental Biology

Brian Strahl receives NIH and NSF grants to study gene expression.

Meet our 2014 entering students!

UNC researchers pinpoint new role for enzyme in DNA repair, kidney cancer