Meet Laurie Betts PhD Research Associate from Carter lab (Sancar lab alum) and learn more about her history with the Biochemistry and Biophysics department.

Dr. Gabrielle Dardis' thesis work studying non-canonical epigenetic and inflammatory signaling crosstalk in triple-negative breast cancer cells...

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Dr. Odessa Goudy is the recipient of the 2023 Diane Harris Leadership Award for the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department. She is a 2023 Kuhlman lab and Biochemistry and Biophysics alumna. Read more about her recent award.

The dissertation award is the highest level of graduate student scholarship. Recipients of the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award are making outstanding contributions.

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Dear Alumni and friends, We have so much to celebrate. There are over 200 news posts on our website, please look through all our content when you have time.

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The 2023 recipients of the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award recipients included Cathy Spangler recent graduate of the Biochemistry and Biophysics PhD program. Read about all the 2023 recipients here.

The cover highlights the dynamic structure of the stem-loop II (s2m) RNA hairpin terminal loop (color gradient) in the SARS-CoV-2 genome, as revealed by molecular dynamics simulations and conformational analysis. The flexible nonaloop containing a palindromic sequence and possibly being involved in the formation of s2m kissing complexes was calculated to have higher absolute entropy than the rigidly pre-organized SARS-CoV s2m (creator: Adam Kensinger).

One of the COVID studies that Dr. Lackey worked on as a co-author with the Duquesne chemistry department is on the cover of ACS Physical Chemistry Au!

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Congratulations to Rodney Park Ph.D. (2022 alum) who has a first-author publication "Designer installation of a substrate recruitment domain to tailor enzyme specificity" which was published in Nature Chemical Biology on December 12, 2022.

Read about our seven graduates who earned degrees in Biochemistry and Biophysics between August and December 2022.

Congratulations to Reem Hakeem PhD on her paper in ACS Nano entitled "A Photopolymerized Hydrogel System with Dual Stiffness Gradients Reveals Distinct Actomyosin-Based Mechano-Responses in Fibroblast Durotaxis"

Dr. Candice Crilly, formerly a Ph.D. student in Dr. Gary Pielak’s lab, has been awarded The Gordon Hammes Scholar Award for her work on her 2021 article, “Dried Protein Structure Revealed at the Residue Level by Liquid-Observed Vapor Exchange NMR.” Dr. Crilly is a Biophysics trainee. We are so pleased that Dr. Crilly’s hard work is being recognized, and we wish her the very best in her new home as a postdoctoral researcher in the Han Lab at UC Santa Barbara!

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Research Scholar Spotlight: Laurie Betts PhD

Alumna Gabrielle Dardis contributes to breast cancer research with thesis publication

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Odessa Goudy receives the 2023 Dianne Harris Leadership Award

Cathy Spangler was Recognized at 2023 UNC Graduate School Celebration on April 12!

Highlighted News for Biochemistry and Biophysics for our alumni and friends (2022-2023)

Cathy Spangler (2022 alum) receives 2023 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award

COVID studies cover art on ACS Physical Chemistry Au (Patrick Lackey, 2016 alum)

Rodney Park’s first author pub is out in Nature Chemical Biology

Congratulations 2022 winter commencement graduates!

Reem Hakeem PhD (2022 alum) publishes research in ACS Nano

The Gordon Hammes Scholar Award goes to Dr. Candice Crilly