Our poster session featured over 20 of our trainees and was held on the afternoon of Feburary 26, 2025 in the Genetics Medicine Lobby.
Poster presentations from our trainees:
Emily Clark, grad student in the Flick lab presented “Disrupting the Staphylococcus aureus fibrin shield to combat bloodstream infections”
Henry Dieckhaus, grad student in the Eshelman School of Pharmacy and member of the Kuhlman lab presented “Protein stability models fail to capture epistatic interactions of double point mutations”
James Emerson, grad student in the Conlon Lab presented “X-Chromosome Linked miRNAs Regulate Sex Differences in Cardiac Physiology”
Caleb Fisher, grad student in the Campbell lab presented “APC/C-mediated ubiquitylation of extranucleosomal histone complexes”
George Stephenson, lab technician and system admin in the Laeherach lab presented “Differential targeting effect of mRNA decay activator ZFP36L2 in multiple mouse tissues”
Jake Hughes, grad student in the Kuhlman lab presented “Deep learning based design of overlapping proteins”
Humerya Kaanoglu, grad student, and Yasemin Akyel, postdoc, in the Sancar lab presented “Therapeutic Potential of EdU as Single Agent and in Combination with TMZ in Glioblastoma”
Summer Jones, grad student and research technician in the Bergmeier lab presented “Development of a Mouse Model for Novel Rap1b-Related Thrombocytopenia Syndrome”
Clara Lenger, Research Technician in the Cyro-EM Core and supervised by Dr. Josh Strauss presented “UNC CryoEM Core Research Assistance Capabilities”
Aleksei Martianov, postdoc in Bergmeier lab presented “RASA3 regulates αIIbβ3 transition into the intermediate activation state”
Brandon Novy
“Using Chemical Language Models to Discover Novel Hits From DNA-Encoded Libraries”
Logan Slade
“DNA replication origin licensing in early G1 is regulated by Cyclin D-CDK4/6 in G2”
Tiger Zhang
“Design of N-terminal Peptide Binders”
Tomiris Mulikova
“Designing de novo allostery using deep learning methods”
Zhiyuan (Zoey) Yao
“Enhancing Miniprotein Binder Design with mRNA Display”
Gisselle Prida
“Designing higher order assemblies of dengue envelope protein”
Divij Kodi
“Combinatory structural biology of NRAS Q61 melanomagenic mutants”
Victoria Augoustides
“Improving Single Molecule Denoising Machine Learning Models with Signal Theory”
Waqas Ahmed
“Unexpected role of crotonylation reader protein ENL and HIV latency”
Surbhi Mundra
“The Oxidative Landscape of KRASG12C: Effects on Therapeutic Engagement”
Federico Boggio and many other trainees presented posters about their research in our labs at UNC.
Special thanks go out to Robert Lee PhD and Rhonda Strickland and to all our volunteers for planning this event that normally occurs during our Research Retreat.