1 month ago
Dr. Venkata R Chirasani will be joining as the director of R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core facility at UNC-Chapel Hill on May 1st, 2023.
1 month ago
Our faculty: Rebecca Berlow, Brian Kuhlman, Ron Swanstrom, Wolfgang Bergmeier, and Rick Baker went out for a social on April 13, 2023, at Boshamer Stadium to watch the UNC vs Miami baseball game.
1 month ago
The UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s Cryo Electron Microscopy Core is excited to announce that were awarded North Carolina Biotechnology Center Innovation Impact Grant (GII) for the acquisition of a Thermo-Fischer Scientific (TFS) micro-crystal electron diffraction (microED) package. This package includes an upgraded camera sensor (Ceta D camera, which is a type of CMOS based CCD camera designed specifically for collecting electron diffraction data) and software EPU-D for collecting MicroED data with their existing cryo-transmission electron microscope.
2 months ago
In a conversation with Amelia McCue, a 5th-year Ph.D. student in the lab, we tried to unravel what the lab is currently working on. Her work centers on targeted drug delivery, and the big problem she tries to solve involves the design of antibodies that can bind two different things (bi-specific antibodies).
2 months ago
The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for bridge and boost funding. The deadline for applications is April 24.
2 months ago
This research project was a collaborative effort supported by senior authors, Dr. Wolfgang Bergmeier and Dr. Robert Nicholas (Pharmacology). Other contributing members include research staff: Wyatt Schug, Emily G. Clark, Katie Poe; and Drs. Jean Marie N. Mwiza, Tomohiro Kawano, and Nigel Mackman.
2 months ago
Our faculty and research assistants presented posters to welcome BBSP-admitted students and encouraged them to join us in our Biological and Biomedical Sciences Program at UNC Chapel Hill.
2 months ago
For this Women’s History Month, we would like to honor Mary Ellen Jones, PhD. You may recognize her name from the building that sits on the edge of the UNC Medical Center campus, but Jones is recognized for so much more.
3 months ago
On the evening of March 8, 2023, the department of Biochemistry and Biophysics held a Holi celebration on the Genetic Medicine lawn. Holi is a widely celebrated festival in Hinduism, known for its vibrant colors and joyful spirit. This festival marks the arrival of spring and is a time of spreading happiness and love, with participants …
3 months ago
Scientists understand that about four billion years ago the basic molecules of biological life on Earth arose from a primordial soup of chemicals. But how did this process occur? Questions remain unanswered about exactly how the chaos of chemicals became ordered biology.
