photo of Pedro N. Pozo thesis defense 2018

Pedro N. Pozo, graduate student in Cook lab publishes his first-authored paper in MBoC and he receives his PhD.

Sierra Archibald, undergraduate researcher

Sierra Archibald in Aziz Sancar lab works along side of senior researchers whose work focuses on DNA damage repair, cell cycle checkpoints, circadian clock.

Pedro N. Pozo (in white) with family and Jean Cook PhD (in red)

Graduate students: AMY BYRNES, LIOR VERED, SHARON GUFFY, and PEDRO N. POZO gave their defenses this year.

Aspen Gutgsell graduate student of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Aspen was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by AHA, and the best graduate student poster at the Southeast Lipid Research Conference in Nashville, TN on November 2, 2018, as well as the best poster at our departmental research retreat in October 2018.

Postdoc from Aziz Sancar lab Wentao Li holds plaque from UNC PARE award 2018 ceremony

Wentao Li, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow in the lab of Dr. Aziz Sancar, has received the 2018 EMGS New Investigator Travel Award & 2018 PARE Award.

Courtney Vaughn, MD-PhD student in the lab of Aziz Sancar, MD, PhD, was awarded the Scott Neil Schwirck fellowship.

Well wishers came to cheer on the finalists of the UNC Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis competition in Bondurant Hall G100 Tuesday October 30. Of the ten finalists, three are are from UNC School of Medicine departments: Alex Chung in the Parise lab, and Susanna Harris and Bhawana Shrestha in microbiology and immunology. The Three Minute …

3-D structure of CF protein in active, inactive states

In the Riordan lab, postdoctoral fellow Jonathan Fay, PhD, led experiments using single-particle cryoEM to discover...

There were excellent department talks and posters, and a host of team building activities that made this year’s retreat an engaging and exciting event!

Fall 2018, second year graduate students: Cari Koerner (Neher Lab), Adam Luthman (Ramsden Lab), Nick Martinez (Campbell Lab), and Keean Braceros (Calabrese Lab) learned valuable science communication skills from Biochemistry 701. This course helps students gain proficiency in evaluating limitations and alternative approaches in the literature, receive exposure to experimental methods, and practice communicating science …

Juanita Limas, graduate student in Jean Cook lab

Juanita Limas will receive $50,000 to support her biomedical research in the Cook lab.

photo of man holding paper Ben S. Roberts, graduate student in Neher lab

Ben's paper explores the role of LMF1 in redox homeostasis.

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Graduate Student Pedro N. Pozo Publishes in Molecular Biology of the Cell and receives his PhD

UNC Undergraduate Research Week November 5 – 9

Student Defenses for 2018

Congratulations to Aspen Gutgsell who was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by the AHA and winner of best poster at the Southeast Lipid Research Conference!

Li, postdoctoral fellow in Sancar lab, receives 2018 EMGS and PARE Awards

Courtney Vaughn awarded the Scott Neil Schwirck fellowship

Alex Chung Makes it to Three Minute Thesis finals

UNC scientists solve 3-D structure of CF protein in active, inactive states

2018 Research Retreat held at Graylyn on October 4 and 5th

Graduate students record Science Seminar Preview podcasts

Limas named 2018-19 Gilliam Fellow by HHMI

Graduate Student Ben S. Roberts first authored paper in The EMBO Journal