Dr. Nikea Pittman is a structural biologist and STEM educator. Her specialties include engaging early-career students in active learning and protein structure/function. She joins our department with over 10 years of teaching experience, leading innovations that have impacted 500+ undergraduate and graduate students...
You are invited to attend an ASBMB webinar featuring winners of the 2022 ASBMB Annual Awards. In this event, Greg Wang, winner of the ASBMB Young Investigator Award, will present his lecture "Chromatin-based modulations underlying gene regulation and pathogenesis" and participate in a Q&A session on August 9, 2022, at 1:30 PM.
The first inaugural UNC Biophysics Field Day, an afternoon of friendly competition to foster community among the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics students & faculty, was a huge success! Biophysics cohorts & faculty faced off in several rounds of science-themed challenges. Thank you to all of the organizers & participants: Amelia McCue, Odessa Goudy, Gage Leighton, Nick Randolph, Emily Beard, Xavier Bonner, and to Holly Shepherd, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Jill Dowen, Brian Strahl, & Steven Torchio.
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View AllDr. Nikea Pittman is a structural biologist and STEM educator. Her specialties include engaging early-career students in active learning and protein structure/function. She joins our department with over 10 years of teaching experience, leading innovations that have impacted 500+ undergraduate and graduate students...
The committee made plans for future work on increasing departmental support for international postdocs and creating a guide for forming a postdoc mentoring committee. They celebrated the election of Dr. Ajit Prakash as committee Vice-Chair...
3 scientists who have taken different career routes shared their career journeys. The ITCMS program, in its 41st year, was established to provide postdoctoral fellows an interdisciplinary training experience, including basic and translational research opportunities with renowned investigators, and extensive scope of workshops and training modules with an emphasis on cancer model systems.
The first inaugural UNC Biophysics Field Day, an afternoon of friendly competition to foster community among the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics students & faculty, was a huge success! Biophysics cohorts & faculty faced off in several rounds of science-themed challenges. Thank you to all of the organizers & participants: Amelia McCue, Odessa Goudy, Gage Leighton, Nick Randolph, Emily Beard, Xavier Bonner, and to Holly Shepherd, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Jill Dowen, Brian Strahl, & Steven Torchio.
Five trainees in the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program received the Barry Lentz Travel Award this spring. The award provides financial support to students who are traveling to a conference to present research.
Viet Vu is a rising senior undergrad at Harvard University studying Computational Biology and is currently participating in this summer's Rosetta Commons Research Experience for Undergraduates program, which is supported by the National Science Foundation.
The first inaugural UNC Biophysics Field Day, an afternoon of friendly competition to foster community among the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics students & faculty, was a huge success! Biophysics cohorts & faculty faced off in several rounds of science-themed challenges. Thank you to all of the organizers & participants: Amelia McCue, Odessa Goudy, Gage Leighton, Nick Randolph, Emily Beard, Xavier Bonner, and to Holly Shepherd, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Jill Dowen, Brian Strahl, & Steven Torchio.
The DEI Certificate Program is a new initiative from the SOM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in support of the 2019 SOM Strategic Plan to foster an inclusive workplace environment.
Last week was our BCBP lab clean-up challenge with a pizza lunch for participants. This week we encourage you to clean up your digital files. Time to do some digital cleanup! Check your OneDrive and SharePoint files to make sure you’re still sharing them with the right people and think about if moving folders to …
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health awarded the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health a $65 million grant establishing an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center to develop oral antivirals that can combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19. The center builds upon and is tightly affiliated with UNC’s Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative. The READDI-AViDD Center, one of nine established by the NIH, is an integrated public-private partnership with a renowned, interdisciplinary research team of experts from the Gillings School, UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. They will apply cutting-edge technologies to develop oral therapies that target viral families with high potential to cause a pandemic in the future.
Last weekend, a self-proclaimed white supremacist was driven to attack Black members of the Buffalo, NY, community. Ten people who were simply going about their day and doing their jobs lost their lives at the hands of someone motivated by his hatred and fear of others who are different than him.
All permanent faculty are encouraged to complete our Mentoring Climate Survey. Completion of the survey will help TEAM ADVANCE understand how faculty are mentored at UNC-Chapel Hill. Faculty are asked to complete the survey whether they completed the survey in past years.
Congratulations to Cassandra Hayne on her new Assistant Professor position with the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the University of Chicago.
Please join us in congratulating the May 2022 graduates of the UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics.
Thank you to all our alumni and donors who made a gift to UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics this academic year. You have invested in our future biomedical research professionals.
