6 years ago
UNC-Chapel Hill Updates Roadmap to Fall 2020
This is a weekly update on the campus Roadmap to Fall 2020 from the UNC-Chapel Hill Office of the Provost, issued Thursday June 25.
Tag: News 2020
6 years ago
Congratulations to Brenda Temple promoted to full professor
Congratulations to Biochemistry and Biophysics faculty Brenda Temple promoted from associate professor to full professor effective June 1, 2020. Brenda Temple PhD is the Core Director of Structural Bioinformatics. Her research specialties include: Bioinformatics, Molecular Structural Analysis, Molecular Dynamics Simulations, Molecular Evolution, Molecular Modeling, Protein-Protein Interaction Prediction Structural Bioinformatics Website
6 years ago
Strahl Lab Decodes Another Piece of the Histone Code Puzzle
In the journal Cell Reports, Brian Strahl, PhD, and colleagues engineered a genome regulator to reveal its important biological functions of genome access. Inside our cells, DNA is tightly packed and spooled around proteins called histones. Packaging DNA in this way allows large amounts of genetic material to exist inside the cell in a final …
6 years ago
Pengda Liu receives grant from Gabrielle’s Angels
Pengda Liu receives a Medical Research Grant from Gabrielle’s Angels Foundation to study “Targeting innate immunity independent STING function in treating AML”
6 years ago
Jennifer M. Potter-Birriel earns her PhD!
Jennifer M. Potter-Birriel, under the direction of Dr. Bill Marzluff, successfully defended her dissertation and received her Ph.D. in Genetics and Molecular Biology on June 3rd, 2020. The title of her dissertation is “A region of Drosophila SLBP distinct from the histone pre-mRNA binding and processing domains is essential for deposition of histone mRNA in …
6 years ago
Virtual Coaching Services Available to Faculty
The Office of Faculty Affairs and Leadership Development is offering virtual coaching to all School of Medicine faculty. Services include peer and executive coaching.
6 years ago
Guidelines for Resuming Research Operations on June 1
In this memo, Blossom Damania, PhD, Vice Dean for Research at the UNC School of Medicine, outlines measures to allow the safe resumption of lab-based and human subjects research at the UNC School of Medicine. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, research across campus has been limited to minimal critical activities and research related to …
6 years ago
COVID-19 Funding Opportunity Tracking
The UNC Office of Research Development is aggregating COVID-19 funding opportunities for the research community. The UNC Office of Research Development is centrally tracking COVID-19 funding opportunities to provide a resource to the campus-wide research community. The funding opportunities are listed on the COVID-19 Funding Opportunities website linked here. Information about COVID-19 funding opportunities will be added to the page as they become available.
6 years ago
SOM Mental Health, Emotional Support Resources
The Mental Health/Emotional Support Resources website provides resources for all UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health system employees. The Mental Health / Emotional Support Resources website provides resources for all UNC School of Medicine and UNC Health system employees. During an infectious disease outbreak like COVID-19, it is not uncommon for people to experience …
6 years ago
Announcing our new Student Services Specialist Holly Shepherd!
Our new Student Services Specialist Holly Shepherd will be joining the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics on May 26, 2020.
6 years ago
UNC-Chapel Hill Launches Tar Heels Together Website
The University Development Office at UNC Chapel Hill created a Tar Heels Together website to connect community and share Carolina stories. The University Development Office created an innovative, dynamic way to connect people, share information, and build community during this time of isolation: The Tar Heels Together website, a “one stop shop” where friends and supporters of Carolina …
6 years ago
Graduate Student Courtney Vaughn receives her PhD!
Courtney Vaughn, under the direction of Aziz Sancar, M.D., Ph.D., successfully defended her dissertation on May 6, 2020 and received her PhD. The title of her dissertation is “Exploring the role of DNA damage, nucleotide excision repair, and circadian rhythm on cellular response to platinum-based drugs”