1 year ago
Taghreed Mohammed Al-Turki, PhD, a postdoc in the lab of Jack Griffith, PhD, describes her long, difficult, and rewarding journey of becoming a telomere scientist as a first-time mother. View video and read more about her research.
1 year ago
Congrats to Creativity Hubs Winners! "The Human MHC project "Revolutionizing Cancer Therapy by Total Sequencing of the MHC Peptidome" Co-PIs: Leon G. Coleman, Benjamin Vincent, Dan Dominguez, Brian Kuhlman, Albert Bowers, Krzysztof Krajewski and 4 other teams on their funding to execute their project over the next two years, for a combined total of $1.87 million.
2 years ago
Researchers in the lab of Jean Cook, PhD, chair and professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, have identified the cellular processes that occur when you take a cancer drug meant to stop rapid cell growth in tumors. Brandon Mouery is the first author on this research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
2 years ago
The Jiang lab received a grant for the project titled: Histone decrotonylation uniquely regulates HIV latency from NIH National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for $674,184.
2 years ago
Grimsley, a graduate student in the Starbird lab, is investigating genetic variations of ABCA7, a protein that has been shown to increase one’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.
2 years ago
RNA Retreat on May 21, featured talks and poster presentations by faculty and trainees, including Ike Emerson, the Bill Marzluff Graduate Student Fellowship Award recipient, Jackson Trotman, PhD, the Bill Marzluff Postdoctoral Fellowship Award recipient, and Josh Boyer, PhD, one of the RDC Collaborative Team Science Fellowship Award recipients.
2 years ago
Justin Jenson, PhD has joined the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, effective June 24, 2024. His research focuses on anti-phage systems that contain functional homologs of human immunity pathways.
2 years ago
R01 awarded to Wolfgang Bergmeier, PhD, Matthew Flick, PhD, and Rafal Pawlinski, PhD are co-investigators. This new R01 is focused on the role of fibrinogen in thrombosis. The total funds for this award are: $2.9 million.
2 years ago
Lineberger Awards ceremony will present awards to 4 of our trainees! In 2024, 4 out of 5 awardees are from our labs. These individuals will be recognized for their leadership of notable scientific publications on June 21, 2024.
2 years ago
Jamie Madrigal, Mac Monroe, Suzanne Sindi, Karin Leiderman, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, had a new paper published in Mathematical Biosciences. “Modeling the Distribution of Enzymes on Lipid Vesicles: A Novel Framework for Surface-Mediated Reactions in Coagulation”.
2 years ago
A new MPI NIH R01 was awarded to Karin Leiderman, PhD and Alisa Wolberg, PhD of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, entitled: “Interdisciplinary Approach to Elucidate Modifiers of Bleeding Phenotype in Factor XI Deficiency.” Read more at Blood Research Center news.
2 years ago
In this study, Bergmeier lab developed a 4D (3D over time) in vivo imaging model of mouse hemostatic plug formation. With this model, they demonstrated that the accumulation of fibrin, an essential component of hemostatic plug stability, is determined by a balance of fibrin formation and degradation. The lab also examined the contribution of procoagulant platelets to the accumulation of fibrin and demonstrated that platelets are the functionally dominant procoagulant surface for fibrin accumulation in hemostasis. Abigail Ballard-Kordeliski is the first author.
