3 years 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.
3 years 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.
3 years 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).
3 years ago
The UNC School of Medicine is accepting applications for bridge and boost funding. The deadline for applications is April 24.
3 years 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.
3 years 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.
3 years 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 years 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.
3 years ago
The growing field of epigenetics holds the promise of future treatments for those facing cancer and rare diseases. Yet at the University, it’s not just the breakthrough potential of the field itself that’s exciting. It’s also how researchers from different departments are teaming up to push the science further and faster than they could do alone.
3 years ago
Scientists at the lab of Nobel Prize-winning scientist Aziz Sancar MD PhD have made the surprising discovery that a molecule called EdU, which is commonly used in laboratory experiments to label DNA, is in fact recognized by human cells as DNA damage, triggering a runaway process of DNA repair that is eventually fatal to affected cells, including cancer cells. This is worthy of further investigation, especially for brain cancers.
3 years ago
Sharon Campbell, PhD, Gary F. Liebscer Distinguished Professor receives award for outstanding mentorship!
3 years ago
Gary Pielak receives a Johnston Teaching Award! Read about the 2023 Chapman and Johnson teaching award winners who share thoughtful reflection on the teachers who inspired them to be better instructors.