3 months ago
Congrats to Dr. Xuemei Cao who was promoted to Research Associate
Congratulations to Dr. Xuemei Cao on her promotion to Research Associate on Sep 18, 2023. She has been a member of the Sancar lab since 2018.
Tag: News 2023
3 months ago
Where Do We Start? Healing through Community
"So where do we start? Perhaps, as Dr. Rosenstein indicated, we start with each other." Repeated trauma, especially traumas as similar and close together as the two lockdowns UNC-Chapel Hill has experienced, can be difficult. Navigating trauma is highly individualized and not at all linear. Whatever you are feeling, however you are responding, is valid.
3 months ago
Aki Braceros earns her PhD!
Aki Braceros successfully defended her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Mauro Calabrese on September 8, 2023, and she has received her PhD. The title of her dissertation is “Epigenetic regulation of gene expression by long non-coding RNAs.”
3 months ago
UNC RNA Discovery Center awards inaugural fellowship grants
The UNC RNA Discovery Center has awarded three fellowship grants to support innovative research investigating various roles of RNA in health and disease. Two out of the three fellowships were awarded to members of the BCBP department. The Collaborative Team Science Fellowship goes to Qi Zhang, PhD, Joshua Boyer, PhD, and Ron Swanstrom, PhD. James Emerson was awarded the Marzluff Graduate Fellowship.
3 months ago
BCBP gathered to relax with puzzles and games
Big thanks to BCBP administrators for providing snacks and games on Thursday, August 31, 2023, our first official day back from campus Condition 3.
3 months ago
Graduate Student Spotlight: Dalia Fleifel
Learn more about our current graduate students in our new spotlight series for the academic year 2023-2024. Our September spotlight features Dalia Fleifel who is a graduate student in the Biochemistry PhD program and member of the Cook lab.
3 months ago
Try these tools to process emotions
Trauma can make it hard to go about your normal life. It can shake your sense of safety — on campus and beyond. UNC Healthy Heels offers mental health strategies to cope with a traumatic events.
4 months ago
Dr. Dale Ramsden received a grant for $405,547 from NIH National Cancer Institute
Congratulations to Dr. Dale Ramsden, on his recent year 20 renewal of a grant from NIH National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his project entitled “DNA Polymerases in Nonhomologous End Joining” for $405,547 that began on July 1st.
4 months ago
Indian students at UNC celebrated India’s 77th Independence Day on GMB Lawn
On August 15, 2023, a group of Indian trainees at UNC celebrated India’s 77th Independence Day. The day marks the date on which India got its independence, in 1947. It is celebrated every year in the remembrance of the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives to free India from the ruling Britishers, back then. The …
4 months ago
Zhijun Li PhD joins Qi Zhang’s Lab as a Research Assistant Professor
Meet Dr. Zhijun Li. He received his Ph.D. in a joint program of science and engineering, from Saitama University and Cellular and Molecular Biology Unit of RIKEN in Japan...
4 months ago
Dr. Kathryn Gunn was awarded the Porter prize for research excellence
Dr. Kathryn Gunn was recently awarded the American Society for Cell Biology’s (ASCB) Porter prize for research excellence. This prestigious $5,000 prize is awarded to one postdoctoral fellow and one graduate student at the yearly ASCB meeting. Awardees are selected based on the novelty and creativity of their findings, and how these findings contribute to …
4 months ago
Welcome Postdoc Alexey Martyanov PhD to BCBP and Bergmeier lab
I am from Moscow, Russia, and have just arrived in the US and I am absolutely delighted to be a part of the UNC. I have been here merely a week, yet I have already been deeply impressed by the creative energy and scientific excitement that looms in this place.