3-D structure of CF protein in active, inactive states

In the Riordan lab, postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Fay, PhD, led experiments using single-particle cryoEM to discover...

photo of Oliver Smithies and Aziz Sancar

The prize honors Sancar’s work mapping the cellular mechanisms that underlie DNA repair, which occurs every minute due to environmental factors. He credited his success to his many collaborators, and to UNC’s supportive environment.

photo of image2 2018 H. Shelton Earp, MD, and G. Greg Wang, PhD,

In the journal Molecular Cell, researchers led by G. Greg Wang, PhD, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, and H. Shelton Earp, MD, describe the role of a protein variant called androgen receptor variant 7 (AR-V7), which is an alternative form of the androgen receptor that plays a key role in prostate cancer development and treatment.

Strahl lab has been at the forefront of deciphering how our genetic information or the blue print of life – which exists in the form of DNA – is packaged into cells and how it becomes accessed and read for the process of gene expression.

Fall 2018, second year graduate students: Cari Koerner (Neher Lab), Adam Luthman (Ramsden Lab), Nick Martinez (Campbell Lab), and Keean Braceros (Calabrese Lab) learned valuable science communication skills from Biochemistry 701. This course helps students gain proficiency in evaluating limitations and alternative approaches in the literature, receive exposure to experimental methods, and practice communicating science …

Photo of 7 people Groundbreaking ceremony of the Sancar Turkish Cultural and Community Center located at 1609 East Franklin Street. Chapel Hill, NC. August 30, 2018. Turkish Ambassador to the United States, Serdar Kilic, and Chapel Hill Mayor, Pam Hemminger, in attendance. photo credit Jon Gardiner UNC Chapel Hill

University officials joined dignitaries from Turkey and Chapel Hill town representatives Aug. 30 to celebrate the groundbreaking for the Sancar Turkish Cultural and Community Center, named for Carolina’s Nobel Prize winner Aziz Sancar and his wife, Gwen.

Brian Kuhlman PhD professor of UNC biochemistry and biophysics

Brian Kuhlman, Ph.D., is the dynamic co-developer of the popular molecular modeling software Rosetta. His laboratory in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is creating new methods in Rosetta for designing proteins with novel shapes and functions.

Doug Barrick, PhD Professor Thomas C. Jenkins Department of Biophysics John Hopkins Krieger School of Arts and Sciences Doug Barrick Prof. Doug Barrick recently published “Biomolecular Thermodynamics: From Theory to Application” “Using consensus sequences to learn about protein folding cooperativity, stability, and function” The use of consensus sequences has recently been applied successfully to …

UNC Graduate student, Nicholas Martinez, contributor to The Pipettepen

photo of man holding paper Ben S. Roberts, graduate student in Neher lab

Ben's paper explores the role of LMF1 in redox homeostasis.

Congratulations to Greg Wang and Qi Zhang, associate professors of biochemistry and biophysics who received tenure as a UNC faculty effective June 1, 2018.

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UNC scientists solve 3-D structure of CF protein in active, inactive states

Nobel Laureate: Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D. featured in Carolina Stories

Insights about prostate cancer resistance could lead to treatment strategies

Epigenetics: Brian Strahl, Ph.D., Faculty Spotlight

Graduate students record Science Seminar Preview podcasts

Aziz Sancar breaks ground for the Sancar Turkish Cultural and Community Center

Brian Kuhlman, Ph.D., Protein Robotics: Making Science Fun while Improving Human Health

SEMINAR: Xiao-Fan Wang (Duke University)

SEMINAR: Doug Barrick, PhD (John Hopkins)

Putting the Brakes on CRISPR by Nicholas Martinez

Graduate Student Ben S. Roberts first authored paper in The EMBO Journal

Greg Wang and Qi Zhang become associate professors with tenure