4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
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.)
4 years ago
On May 11, 2022, Two graduate students presented their research to the UNC Cytoskeleton Club.
4 years ago
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.
4 years ago
Brandon Mouery, a GMB PhD candidate in Jean Cook’s lab, was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) on June 3, 2022 from the National Cancer Institute.
4 years ago
Tiffanie Lee is working in the Strahl lab through the UNC SMART program, while also serving as a mentor in the EDGE Genomics Program through the UNC SOM's Program for Precision Medicine in Healthcare.
4 years ago
Congratulations to all authors: Jean Marie N. Mwiza, Robert H. Lee, David S. Paul, Lori A. Holle, Brian C. Cooley, Bernhard Nieswandt, Wyatt J. Schug, Tomohiro Kawano, Nigel Mackman, Alisa S. Wolberg, Wolfgang Bergmeier.
4 years ago
On May 19th, we celebrated the end of a successful year of student seminars with a departmental hosted lunch and award event for all our graduate students. Congratulations to our 8 peer-nominated awardees!