Dear Department, As another holiday season is approaching, I wanted to send a special message of thanks for all of the hard work you have been doing and for all we have accomplished this last year. Despite a pandemic that never seems to end, we have continued to be highly successful and be at our best…
Dr. Dowen is now serving as the Well-being Liaison for the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics. Her role is supported by the School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development. A list of well-being resources is provided. Read more…
Rotation projects are available in cardiovascular disease and cancer to 1) translate lipid inhibitors of platelet aggregation into therapeutics to prevent thrombotic events and 2) use targeted and systems biology approaches to explore CIB1 in cancer cell and endothelial cell biology.
Tuesdays at 11:00 AM, August 24 – November 30, 2021 Download a copy of our flyer here: 2021 Fall Seminars These scientific research seminars are open to those in the triangle area, virtually. We encourage incoming BBSP students to attend the Biochemistry and Biophysics seminars and social events to get to know our people and opportunities. Students … Read more
Join us TODAY at 12:30 for the Biology Department Seminar given by Dr. Aaron Straight from Stanford University. The title of his seminar is “Genetic and epigenetic control of chromosome function“. Dr. Straight’s work addresses biophysical, biochemical and cell biological questions in chromosome biology. He uses a wide variety of model organisms (including yeast, fly, frog and human) and … Read more
Alex Stutzman a graduate student in Down and McKay labs, successfully competed to be one of the UNC nominees put forward in prestigious national fellowship competition. Alex is now in the running for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study. She is a terrific candidate with a strong background in research and … Read more
Publication “A WIZ/Cohesin/CTCF Complex Anchors DNA Loops to Define Gene Expression and Cell Identity” in Cell Reports
The second edition of “On the Record with LP.”
Welcome new incoming BBSP Students. Rotation projects are available in cardiovascular disease and cancer to 1) translate lipid inhibitors of platelet aggregation into therapeutics to prevent thrombotic events and 2) use targeted and systems biology approaches to explore CIB1 in cancer cell and endothelial cell biology.
Join us for food and informal talks and interactions on Wednesday 27 March from 4:00 to 6:00 pm in 1131 Bioinformatics. Jill Dowen will discuss her work and career path in a talk entitled: “Folding of the genome controls gene expression;” Judy Bond will talk briefly about the benefits of joining the American Society of … Read more
Guang Hu, Ph.D., leads the Stem Cell Biology Group within the NIEHS Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory, and holds a secondary appointment in the NIEHS Reproductive and Developmental Biology Laboratory. Seminar Title:“The tail that wags the dog – Post-transcriptional regulation of the stem cell state.” Host: Jill Dowen
Spring 2018 JANUARY 16 VICTORIA D’ SOUZA, PHD ǀ Harvard UniversityHost: Qi Zhang “Unraveling Viral RNA Genomes: One Segment at a time” Joint Seminar with the UNC Program in Molecular & Cellular Biophysics JANUARY, 30 UNC BIOCHEMISTRY & BIOPHYSICS GRADUATE STUDENT INVITED LECTURE BILL CLEMONS, PHD ǀ Cal Tech “Structural insights into the targeting of tail-anchored membrane … Read more
