Faculty News Archives | Biochemistry and Biophysics

Dr. Nikea Pittman is a structural biologist and STEM educator. Her specialties include engaging early-career students in active learning and protein structure/function. She joins our department with over 10 years of teaching experience, leading innovations that have impacted 500+ undergraduate and graduate students...

You are invited to attend an ASBMB webinar featuring winners of the 2022 ASBMB Annual Awards. In this event, Greg Wang, winner of the ASBMB Young Investigator Award, will present his lecture "Chromatin-based modulations underlying gene regulation and pathogenesis" and participate in a Q&A session on August 9, 2022, at 1:30 PM.

During the event, each cohort dressed up in matching shirts. The first-year cohort (pink), second (yellow), third (green), fourth (blue), and fifth (purple) year cohorts at the end of the day.

The first inaugural UNC Biophysics Field Day, an afternoon of friendly competition to foster community among the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics students & faculty, was a huge success! Biophysics cohorts & faculty faced off in several rounds of science-themed challenges. Thank you to all of the organizers & participants: Amelia McCue, Odessa Goudy, Gage Leighton, Nick Randolph, Emily Beard, Xavier Bonner, and to Holly Shepherd, Wolfgang Bergmeier, Jill Dowen, Brian Strahl, & Steven Torchio.

In summer 2022, Dr. Stephen Crews will teach BIOL 490 Medical Biochemistry and Disease as part of UNC Science Dublin Study Abroad. The Study Abroad session in Dublin, Ireland will run from June 1 to July 17, 2022.

The DEI Certificate Program is a new initiative from the SOM Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in support of the 2019 SOM Strategic Plan to foster an inclusive workplace environment.

Alex Guseman, PhD. Postdoc, Univ. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

The Rising Star Program’s main goal is to increase diversity among faculty members in the basic sciences.

Congratulations to all authors: Jean Marie N. Mwiza, Robert H. Lee, David S. Paul, Lori A. Holle, Brian C. Cooley, Bernhard Nieswandt, Wyatt J. Schug, Tomohiro Kawano, Nigel Mackman, Alisa S. Wolberg, Wolfgang Bergmeier.

diverse people sitting at table, text on this news post

Susan Girdler, PhD, and Friederike Jayes, PhD, principle investigators for the Peer Group Research on Mentoring Scientists Underrepresented in Biomedical Research (PROMISE) study, will host information sessions on how to participate in the team’s research, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health Diversity Program Consortium.

Understanding and Navigating Microaggressions flier

73 BCBP members, including faculty, staff, research associates, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students, have attended "Understanding and Navigating Microaggressions" training on May 26.

Congratulations to Dr. Yanyan Yang on her promotion to Research Assistant Professor.

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Nikea Pittman PhD joins the UNC Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics as Teaching Assistant Professor

Greg Wang PhD gives ASBMB Young Investigator Award lecture on August 9th

UNC Biophysicists compete in the first annual Field Day

Summer Abroad in Dublin: Medical Biochemistry and Disease Course

SOM Faculty and Staff: Enrolling members into DEI Certificate Program

BCBP to host Rising Star postdoc Dr. Alex Guseman on June 9-10

Graduate student Jean Marie N. Mwiza (Bergmeier & Wolberg labs) has the cover article in the May 2022 issue of Blood

PROMISE Research Team to Host Information Sessions June 23, 24

A successful departmental-wide DEI training

Yanyan Yang promoted to Research Assistant Professor