Tag: Student News

Aspen Gutgsell under the direction of Dr. Saskia Neher, successfully defended her dissertation on March 30, 2020 and received her PhD!

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  Edhriz Siraliev-Perez under the direction of Dr. John Sondek, successfully defended his dissertation on March 27, 2020 and received his PhD!     The title of his dissertation is “Dynamics of Allosteric Activation of PLC-gamma Isozymes.” During his tenure at UNC, Edhriz’ dedicated three and a half years to the Science Policy Advocacy Group …

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Julia DiFiore, under the direction of Dr. Brian Strahl, successfully defended her dissertation on March 13, 2020 and received her PhD! The title of her dissertation is “Examining the Biological Functions of the H3K36 Methylation States in Transcription Regulation and the Post-Translational Modification Landscape of Set2.” While at UNC, Julia was also active in outreach …

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Hanna Trzeciakiewicz under the direction of Dr. Todd Cohen, successfully defended her dissertation on March 6, 2020 and received her PhD! The title of his dissertation is “The Regulation of Tau Pathogenesis in Neurodegeneration” Hanna is a NSF GRFP Fellow. She also received the 2020 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in Biological & Life Sciences in addition …

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On February 10th 2020, graduate student Odessa Goudy of Kuhlman lab gave a talk at Winter RosettaCON entitled, “Designing safer cancer immunotherapies: Autoinhibited PD-1 decoys.” Winter RosettaCON was held at the Simons Foundation, 160 Fifth Avenue in New York City, NY.  

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Hanna Trzeciakiewicz, fifth year Biochemistry graduate student, is awarded two, not just one, honorable and prestigious UNC awards.

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BCBP Synergy was created to facilitate meetups and networking between members. Please join the spring 2020 BCBP Synergy groups.

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For two days Structural Biologists, from across the Piedmont, attended the first ever 2019 Triangle Area Cryo-EM Symposium

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We would like to say a big thank you to our graduate student leaders for 2019 and those serving on the GECO committee. Also a big shout out to our student who co-founded the Shadow A Scientist in 2018.

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Wolfgang Bergmeier has been serving the department with Dale Ramsden as the co-director of the Graduate Studies program for the past 6 months. Dr. Bergmeier will become the Director of Graduate Studies beginning January 1, 2020.

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