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: Events_2018
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
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THESIS DEFENSE: SHARON GUFFY
October 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm SHARON GUFFY “Methods for Designing Zinc Binding Proteins with Native and De Novo Scaffolds” Seminar is based upon doctoral dissertation of Sharon Guffy under the direction of Dr. Brian Kuhlman
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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, …
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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
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2018 Research Retreat held at Graylyn on October 4 and 5th
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!
6 years ago
11th Biennial Carolina Biophysics Symposium
A central goal of the symposium is to bring together North Carolina Biophysicists and this year’s meeting is being organized and sponsored by NC State, Duke, UNC, Wake Forest, and the NIEHS. The meeting will include sessions focused on RNA Structure and Dynamics, Cellular Microenvironments, Protein Engineering and Design, and Blood Coagulation.
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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 …
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SEMINAR: Xiao-Fan Wang (Duke University)
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SEMINAR: Student invited speaker, Carolyn Sevier, PhD (Cornell)
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RESEARCH IN PROGRESS SEMINAR 2018: Gavin Grant, PhD and Sourav Roy, PhD (UNC)
Gavin Grant, PhD Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Biophysics & Biochemistry Jean Cook Lab “Rushing through the morning- potential consequences of an abbreviated G1 phase.” Cell cycle phase transitions are tightly orchestrated to ensure efficient cell cycle progression and genome stability. Interrogating these transitions is important for understanding both normal and pathological cell proliferation. By quantifying …
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SEMINAR: Doug Barrick, PhD (John Hopkins)
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 …