6 years ago
11th Biennial North Carolina Biophysics Symposium brought together North Carolina Biophysicists
Sessions focused on RNA Structure and Dynamics, Cellular Microenvironments, Protein Engineering and Design, and Blood Coagulation.
Tag: 2018-Year-in-Review
6 years ago
BCBP Pumpkin Carving Madness
Pumpkin Carving and our delicious Lunch was a welcomed break from studying and experiments. Special thanks to our graduate students, Gage Leighton, Aaztli Coria, and others for organizing and hosting this event. See our photo album on Facebook in this link
6 years ago
UNC scientists solve 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...
6 years ago
2018 Student Symposium – Day 2
“Regulation of PLC-gamma Isozymes” Edriz-Siraliev-Perez, Sondek Lab “An Old Tail with New Tricks: Novel Roles for the basic patch of histone H4” Hasheem Meriesh, Strahl Lab “Pack it up, pack it in! Protein-Directed RNA Structural Changes Mediate RNA Segment Assembly in Rotaviruses” Aaztli Coria, Laederach Lab “Defining mutation-specific alterations at Q61 in KRAS” Mihn Huynh, …
6 years ago
2018 Student Symposium – Day 1
“A more Grown Up Story on Lipase Maturation Factor 1 in ER Redox Homeostasis” Benjamin Roberts, Neher Lab “Thermostability and its role in Dengue and Zika Vaccine Antigen Design” Stephan Kudlacek, Kuhlman Lab “Dynamically Changing G9a Interactome and Its Role in Progression of Breast Cancer” Adil Muneer, Chen Lab
6 years ago
Nobel Laureate: Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D. featured in Carolina Stories
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.
6 years ago
Insights about prostate cancer resistance could lead to treatment strategies
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.
6 years ago
Epigenetics: Brian Strahl, Ph.D., Faculty Spotlight
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.
6 years ago
Graduate students record Science Seminar Preview podcasts
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 …
6 years ago
Aziz Sancar breaks ground for the Sancar Turkish Cultural and Community Center
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.
6 years ago
Brian Kuhlman, Ph.D., Protein Robotics: Making Science Fun while Improving Human Health
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.
6 years ago
New publication in Blood from Bergmeier Lab
Bergmeier Lab has a new publication in Blood: Functional redundancy between RAP1 isoforms in murine platelet production and function.