4 years ago
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...
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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.
4 years ago
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.
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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.
4 years ago
The Rising Star Program’s main goal is to increase diversity among faculty members in the basic sciences.
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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.
4 years ago
Congratulations to Dr. Yanyan Yang on her promotion to Research Assistant Professor.
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
Project Title: Cancer Hijacks Enzyme Substrate Mutations to Facilitate Tumorigenesis
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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.
4 years ago
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.
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Congratulations to Dr. David S. Paul on his promotion to Research Assistant Professor on May 11, 2022.