Frank Church, PhD, Kurt Gilliland, PhD, Edward Kernick, DPM, Marianne Meeker, PhD, Gwendolyn Sancar, PhD, Sarah Street, PhD, and Arrel Toews, PhD were selected as the first cohort of teaching champions.

PCLS utilizing a group of amino acids to engage with a chemical marker that signals gene activation

Research from the Wang and Strahl labs has shed new light on how epigenetic signals may function together to determine the ultimate fate of a stem cell.

Learn about all the new people, accomplishments, and research and event highlights from this past year.

Congratulations to Dr. Charles Carter, Jr., Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, who was elected as a 2012 AAAS fellow.

Congratulations to Nikolay Dokholyan, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, for his election as a 2012 APS Fellow.

Each 1 credit module investigates principles and mechanisms of signal transduction and cell proliferation control with an emphasis on in-depth discussion of current literature and unanswered questions in the field.

Scott Rothbart, PhD (left) and Brian Strahl, PhD (right)

Sept. 30, 2012 - New research from the Strahl lab has established the first link between the two most fundamental epigenetic tags -- histone modification and DNA methylation -- in humans.

Life is full of choices, and even cells come to a fork in the road. They have to decide what to do about damage to their DNA: repair the damage, force the damaged cell to die, or allow the damage to transform the cell to a tumor cell. Read more on the work from the Xian Chen lab in the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics that was published in Cell Death & Disease.

Onur Dagliyan (left) and Alka Das (right)

Congratulations to Onur Dagliyan and Alka Das, graduate students of Biochemistry & Biophysics who are recipients of 2012 HHMI International Student Research Fellowships.

Dr. Stephen T. Crews, Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics, accepted an invitation to serve as a member of the Neurogenesis and Cell Fate Study Section, Center for Scientific Review for the term beginning immediately and ending June 30, 2018. Members are selected on the basis of their demonstrated competence and achievement in their scientific discipline as evidenced by the quality of research accomplishments, publications in scientific journals, and other significant scientific activities, achievements and honors.

Congratulations to Dr. Saskia Neher, Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Biophysics who is the eleventh Pew Scholar recipient for UNC since the program began in 1985. She is one of 8 women among 22 awardees overall nationwide.

Dr. Shobhan Gaddameedhi, postdoctoral fellow in Aziz Sancar's lab, is one of six recipients of a NC TraCS $2K Pilot Program.

Tag: News_2012

Faculty Gwendolyn Sancar and Arrel Toews named 2012 first Teaching Champions

Wang discovers information from outside the genome influences stem cell differentiation, cancer development

Newsletter 2012

Charles Carter elected as 2012 AAAS Fellow

Nikolay Dokholyan elected as a 2012 American Physical Society Fellow

NEW COURSE for Spring 2013: Contemporary Topics in Cell Signaling

Scientists in the Strahl lab find missing link between players in the epigenetic code

UNC team reports a novel DNA Damage-Dependent Tumor Suppressor

Grad Student Onur Dagliyan and Alakananda Das awarded HHMI International Research Fellowships

Crews selected to serve on NIH Study Section

Saskia Neher selected as a 2012 Pew Scholar

Shobhan Gaddameedhi receives a NC TraCS grant