Taking a short break from research and books Pumpkin Carving with graduate students.

Sessions focused on RNA Structure and Dynamics, Cellular Microenvironments, Protein Engineering and Design, and Blood Coagulation.

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.

There were excellent department talks and posters, and a host of team building activities that made this year’s retreat an engaging and exciting event!

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 …

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.

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.

photo of Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Jean Cook, PhD leads a team of dynamic researchers in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her group explores unique aspects of basic cell proliferation control.

Tag: Biochemistry and Biophysics

Pumpkin Carving Madness

11th Biennial North Carolina Biophysics Symposium brought together North Carolina Biophysicists

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

2018 Research Retreat held at Graylyn on October 4 and 5th

Insights about prostate cancer resistance could lead to treatment strategies

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

Graduate students record Science Seminar Preview podcasts

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

Putting the Brakes on CRISPR by Nicholas Martinez

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

Jean Cook, Ph.D. Fundamentals of Cell Proliferation Control