4 years ago
Managing your Mental Health During Your PhD: book access
Managing your Mental Health during your PhD. A Survival Guide by author Zoë J. Ayres is now available and comes highly recommended.
Tag: Student News
4 years ago
Maria Al Haddad elected to GPSG Senate
Maria Al Haddad was elected by the BCBP department students to represent them as senator in 53rd session of the Graduate and Professional Student Government. The GPSG Senate, consisting of senators representing the different units on campus, is part of the legislative arm of the GPSG. In addition to being a senator, she will also …
4 years ago
Make YOU a priority
Self-care can support a healthy college experience – increasing productivity by stepping away from your to-do list.
4 years ago
Nathaniel Wesley earns his PhD!
Nathaniel Wesley successfully defended his thesis on August 17th, 2022, titled, “Characterization of Chromatin Interactions using TR-FRET.” The work was completed under the direction of Robert K. McGinty, MD, PhD.
4 years ago
MCBP welcomed a vibrant cohort of students at the Annual Bowling Social
The incoming cohort of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program students joined 2nd-year students and program directors, Brian Kuhlman and Kevin Slep, for a bowling social on August 17, 2022, at Mardi Gras Bowling Center in Chapel Hill.
4 years ago
Sarah Harris presents at the Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation Gordon Research Conference
This spring, Sarah Harris, a member of the Dominguez lab, received the Barry Lentz Travel Award. Sarah traveled to the Post-transcriptional Gene Regulation Gordon Research Conference this summer and gave a poster presentation titled “Evolution of the RNA binding and regulations.” Sarah is a 4th year trainee in the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program and a …
4 years ago
The Graduate School welcomes incoming graduate students
The Graduate School welcomed more than 700 graduate students at an in-person orientation on Wednesday, August 10; they join nearly 2,500 incoming graduate students from all areas of campus. Dean Suzanne Barbour provided words of wisdom from her time as a graduate student.
4 years ago
Geoffrey Fox awarded poster prize at VAI Epigenetics Symposium: 20(+2) Years of the Histone Code
Geoffrey Fox – a student perspective on being awarded a poster prize at a national research conference. This year’s Van Andel Institute (VAI) Epigenetics Symposium: 20(+2) Years of the Histone Code was a special one for UNC and the Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics because it was centered around celebrating the 20th anniversary of the …
4 years ago
BBSP Graduate Student Rotations available 2022-23 in Biochemistry and Biophysics
Rotation projects are available in cardiovascular disease and cancer to 1) translate lipid inhibitors of platelet aggregation into therapeutics to prevent thrombotic events and 2) use targeted and systems biology approaches to explore CIB1 in cancer cell and endothelial cell biology.
4 years ago
Dr. Gabby Budziszewski accepts Operations Manager position at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute’s High-Throughput Crystallography Center
Dr. Gabby Budziszewski accepts Operations Manager position at Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute's High-Throughput Crystallography Center in Buffalo, NY!
4 years ago
Odessa Goudy awarded a Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship
Odessa Goudy, a graduate student in the Kuhlman lab, is the recipient of The Carol and Edward Smithwick Dissertation Fellowship within the Royster Society of Fellows. Membership within the Royster Society of Fellows is the highest honor awarded by The Graduate School
4 years ago
I-Te Chu presents at the Annual Protein Society Symposium
I-Te Chu in the Pielak lab presented a poster titled “Protein dimer formation in vitro and in cells” at the Annual Protein Society Symposium in San Francisco, CA this summer. I-Te is a PhD student in the Chemistry department and is a trainee in the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program.