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.

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.

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

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health awarded the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health a $65 million grant establishing an Antiviral Drug Discovery Center to develop oral antivirals that can combat pandemic-level viruses like COVID-19. The center builds upon and is tightly affiliated with UNC’s Rapidly Emerging Antiviral Drug Development Initiative. The READDI-AViDD Center, one of nine established by the NIH, is an integrated public-private partnership with a renowned, interdisciplinary research team of experts from the Gillings School, UNC School of Medicine and UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. They will apply cutting-edge technologies to develop oral therapies that target viral families with high potential to cause a pandemic in the future.

Project Title: Cancer Hijacks Enzyme Substrate Mutations to Facilitate Tumorigenesis

Yesterday marked the start of UNC’s Researcher Appreciation Week. We are so thankful for each and every one of you! Please check out this video of UNC leadership recognizing your contributions and the incredible work you do every day.

Brian Kuhlman standing with his ebike in front of his home

May is National Bike Month and Bike to Work Week is May 16-22, 2022. Today was an e-bike day for Brian Kuhlman. Brandy Curtis, a third-year graduate student always bikes to Amy Gladfelter's lab in the Genome Sciences Building. We encourage members of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics who ride their bikes to the lab to tag us on social media this month.

photo of David S. Paul PhD Research Associate

Congratulations to Dr. David S. Paul on his promotion to Research Assistant Professor on May 11, 2022.

The National Institutes of Health is sponsoring up to 12 monetary prize awards with a total prize purse of up to $500,000 to reward innovative use of data sharing and reuse and the advancement research discoveries.

Congratulations to Ramos lab and UNC collaborators for their recent publication in Nucleic Acids Research describing the discovery of a novel mRNA target, Elavl2, for the RNA binding protein, ZFP36L2. Congratulations to first-co-authors Ian C. Redmon and Matthew Ardizzone, undergraduate researchers in the Biochemistry and Biophysics department, and Hilal Hekimoğlu, an International visiting master’s student and to all authors!

Tag: Faculty & Lab News

UNC Biophysicists compete in the first annual Field Day

Summer Abroad in Dublin: Medical Biochemistry and Disease Course

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

Yanyan Yang promoted to Research Assistant Professor

UNC-Chapel Hill receives $65M from NIH for antiviral drug development center

Pengda Liu PhD receives a grant from NIH National Cancer Institute

This week is UNC’s Researcher Appreciation Week, view video

Bike to Work Week 2022 is May 16-22

David Paul promoted to Research Assistant Professor

FASEB and NIH Partner on DataWorks! Prize to Highlight Power of Data Sharing and Reuse

Ramos lab publishes RNA research in Nucleic Acids Research