The Biochemistry and Biophysics department announces the dates for Fall 2022 BCBP seminars. We encourage incoming BBSP students to attend the Biochemistry and Biophysics seminars and social events to get to know our people and opportunities.

Juanita Limas (left) works at a lab bench with Amiee Littlejohn.

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.

Dr. Gabby Budziszewski accepts Operations Manager position at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute's High-Throughput Crystallography Center in Buffalo, NY!

Odessa Goudy, a graduate student in the Kuhlman lab, is the recipient of The Carol and Edward Smithwick Dissertation Fellowship within the Royster Society of Fellows. Membership within the Royster Society of Fellows is the highest honor awarded by The Graduate School

2 NIH-funded POSTDOCTORAL POSITIONS available at University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill to investigate the function of genes that regulate excitatory and inhibitory synapses in cortical circuits relevant to autism and other neurodevelopmental disorders.

With a record–breaking $1.2B in funding awards this year, Carolina researchers drive breakthroughs in drug development and facilitate experiments for federal agencies and nonprofits.

I-Te Chu in the Pielak lab presented a poster titled “Protein dimer formation in vitro and in cells” at the Annual Protein Society Symposium in San Francisco, CA this summer. I-Te is a PhD student in the Chemistry department and is a trainee in the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program.

Tiffanie A. Lee and Patricia C Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Undergraduate researchers in our labs to give presentations on July 26, 2022.

View presentation videos and posters by undergrads who conducted research in our labs and participated in 2021 and 2022 Celebration of Undergraduate Research.

Jimmy Fay successfully defended his thesis on July 20th, 2022, titled, “The Nanoformulation of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Reformulation with PEG-free Polymers”. The work was completed under the direction of Alexander V. Kabanov.

RNA center opens large crowd celebrating after announcement

The RNA Discovery Center will cultivate an inclusive community of scientists dedicated to investigating all aspects of RNA biology, some of which has already been implicated in human diseases and much of which we know very little about. Co-directors include Qi Zhang and Bill Marzluff. Silvia Ramos and many other researchers are involved in the center. Read more...

UNC will be showcasing remarkable, innovative, and life-saving research conducted by its world-renown faculty and students and inspiring the next generation of scientists through presentations, workshops, and more. Plan ahead and organize an event. Read more...

Tag: News 2022

2022 UNC Biochemistry and Biophysics Fall Seminar Series announced

BBSP Graduate Student Rotations available 2022-23 in Biochemistry and Biophysics

Dr. Gabby Budziszewski accepts Operations Manager position at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute’s High-Throughput Crystallography Center

Odessa Goudy awarded a Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship

POSITIONS AVAILABLE UNC DEPARTMENT OF BIOCHEMISTRY AND NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTER

Research funding passes $1B mark for third straight year

I-Te Chu presents at the Annual Protein Society Symposium

Undergrads in BCBP labs to participate in 2022 Summer Undergraduate Symposium & Carolina Summer Fellows Poster Session

A retrospective of the 2022 Celebration of Undergraduate Research

Jimmy Fay earns his PhD!

The UNC RNA Discovery Center Has Launched!

Save the date: University Research Week October 10-14, 2022