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

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.

Tiffanie A. Lee and Patricia C Rodríguez-Rodríguez

Undergraduate researchers in our labs to give presentations on July 26, 2022.

View presentation videos and posters by undergrads who conducted research in our labs and participated in 2021 and 2022 Celebration of Undergraduate Research.

Jimmy Fay successfully defended his thesis on July 20th, 2022, titled, “The Nanoformulation of Brain Derived Neurotrophic Factor and Reformulation with PEG-free Polymers”. The work was completed under the direction of Alexander V. Kabanov.

The Department ranks fifth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions) in 2021, and 3rd among public institutions. We received over $19.3 million in funding from NIH in 2021.

Five trainees in the Molecular and Cellular Biophysics Program received the Barry Lentz Travel Award this spring. The award provides financial support to students who are traveling to a conference to present research.

During the event, each cohort dressed up in matching shirts. The first-year cohort (pink), second (yellow), third (green), fourth (blue), and fifth (purple) year cohorts at the end of the day.

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.

Viet Vu and Nick Randolph in Kuhlman lab

Viet Vu is a rising senior undergrad at Harvard University studying Computational Biology and is currently participating in this summer's Rosetta Commons Research Experience for Undergraduates program, which is supported by the National Science Foundation.

Congratulations to our graduate students who successfully passed their qualifying oral exams! (6 students in all. See other news articles in Spring 2022 for details.)

On May 11, 2022, Two graduate students presented their research to the UNC Cytoskeleton Club.

Dalia Fleifel, a third-year Ph.D. candidate, and Brandon Mouery, a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in the Cook lab presented their research work in a poster presentation at the 86th Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Symposium on Quantitative Biology entitled: " Genome Stability and Integrity" in June 2022.

Tag: Student News

Odessa Goudy awarded a Royster Society of Fellows Dissertation Completion Fellowship

I-Te Chu presents at the Annual Protein Society Symposium

Undergrads in BCBP labs to participate in 2022 Summer Undergraduate Symposium & Carolina Summer Fellows Poster Session

A retrospective of the 2022 Celebration of Undergraduate Research

Jimmy Fay earns his PhD!

We rank 5th nationally in NIH funding in 2021!

Barry Lentz Travel Award recipients

UNC Biophysicists compete in the first annual Field Day

Viet Vu, Rosetta REU intern, joins the Kuhlman Lab!

Derek Bolhuis and James “Ike” Emerson successfully passed their qualifying oral exams

Grad students Reem Hakeem and Max Hockenberry in Bear lab present research at UNC Cytoskeleton Club

Two Grad students in Cook Lab presented posters at 86th CSHL Symposium Genome Stability and Integrity