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BCBP Synergy was created to facilitate meetups and networking between members. Please join the spring 2020 BCBP Synergy groups.

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Charles Carter, PhD, published seminal work on the inner workings of chemical machines inside our cells that turn energy into action, the foundation of life.

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In some patients with blood disorders, platelet transfusion therapy doesn’t work. UNC School of Medicine scientists used real-time imaging and mouse models to show why. Their work could guide clinical studies and better use of platelet therapy.

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When the University acquired a cryo-EM, Gunn needed to analyze the images with software, like Relion and EMAN2, which only run in Linux environments.

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To facilitate meetups and networking between members of BCBP, we launched BCBP Synergy.

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We appreciate our graduate students for all thier hard work and accomplishments to teaching and research! Graduate students come and enjoy your week of events here at BCBP. We are glad to have you all here! (Most of our events are not limited just to graduate students and we’d love to share these activities with faculty, staff, and post-docs!)

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BCBP Synergy was created to facilitate meetups and networking between members. Please join the spring 2020 BCBP Synergy groups.

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We would like to say a big thank you to our graduate student leaders for 2019 and those serving on the GECO committee. Also a big shout out to our student who co-founded the Shadow A Scientist in 2018.

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Wolfgang Bergmeier has been serving the department with Dale Ramsden as the co-director of the Graduate Studies program for the past 6 months. Dr. Bergmeier will become the Director of Graduate Studies beginning January 1, 2020.

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Our new department Digital Accessibility Liaison, Carolyn Clabo, will be promoting training sessions on digital accessibility.

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Megan DeMarco, our grants pre-award specialist since March 2017, started as a student in a Masters of Public Health program at UNC (Class of 2021) just a few weeks ago, while continuing to working full time. Her concentration is Leadership in Practice. After graduation, she plans to use her degree and grant management experience in …

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  We congratulate HR Consultant Susan Sarvis on completing an SHRA hiring process within 35 days start to finish for the Button laboratory. These new and improved hiring procedures are a result of Operational Excellence, an initiative of the Provost’s office, overseen by Rick Wernowski. The goal of Operational Excellence is to create a high-functioning …

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Rebecca Pollet, PhD (2016) is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan and serves as a faculty member in the Citizen Science Program at Bard College. She is also the co-author of a preprint related to graduate education, you can find the link here. The preprint highlights the motivation for the work she’s …

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Alumni updates for November 6, 2019   Onur Dagliyan (2016) is a Scientist (Research Fellow) at Harvard Medical School, currently researching how sensory experience affects neuronal circuits at the molecular and cellular level.     Andrew Clinton Hemert (2010) works for BioFire Diagnostics as the Director of Biochemistry Research and Innovation.     Reed Jacob …

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The Ph.D. has given me opportunities I would never have had, particularly providing a look into the collaborative efforts to determine scientific goals in fighting disease and the unanimous demand for integrity in the process.

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