5 months ago
Congratulations 2023 Retreat Presentation Winners
Announcing our presentation award winners from our 2023 Annual Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Retreat.
5 months ago
Announcing our presentation award winners from our 2023 Annual Biochemistry and Biophysics Research Retreat.
5 months ago
Our annual research retreat included a keynote talk by Dr. Linda Columbus from the University of Virginia. She is an expert in the biophysics of membrane proteins, particularly regarding bacterial pathogenesis and host-pathogen interactions. Read all our highlights.
6 months ago
Our graduate student spotlight of October 2023 is Abigail (Ballard) Kordeliski, a Platelet researcher in the Bergmeier Lab. Learn more about her research and interests away from the bench.
6 months ago
The Biochemistry and Biophysics department at UNC Chapel Hill celebrated National Hispanic Heritage Month on Friday afternoon, October 6th, in the GMB 3rd-floor atrium and organized by our DEI Cultural and Intra/Intergroup Relations subcommittee.
6 months ago
Benjamin Kornegay, a graduate student in Jill Dowen's lab, is the recipient of a 2023 Burroughs Wellcome Fund Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program (GDEP) award. Selected from a pool of exceptionally talented applicants...
7 months ago
Aki Braceros successfully defended her dissertation under the direction of Dr. Mauro Calabrese on September 8, 2023, and she has received her PhD. The title of her dissertation is “Epigenetic regulation of gene expression by long non-coding RNAs.”
7 months ago
The UNC RNA Discovery Center has awarded three fellowship grants to support innovative research investigating various roles of RNA in health and disease. Two out of the three fellowships were awarded to members of the BCBP department. The Collaborative Team Science Fellowship goes to Qi Zhang, PhD, Joshua Boyer, PhD, and Ron Swanstrom, PhD. James Emerson was awarded the Marzluff Graduate Fellowship.
7 months ago
Learn more about our current graduate students in our new spotlight series for the academic year 2023-2024. Our September spotlight features Dalia Fleifel who is a graduate student in the Biochemistry PhD program and member of the Cook lab.
7 months ago
On August 15, 2023, a group of Indian trainees at UNC celebrated India’s 77th Independence Day. The day marks the date on which India got its independence, in 1947. It is celebrated every year in the remembrance of the freedom fighters who sacrificed their lives to free India from the ruling Britishers, back then. The …
8 months ago
Thank you to all of our summer interns for your contributions. We look forward to hearing more from you in the future. Please connect with us on Linked in and other social media platforms.
8 months ago
This study, “Protease-activated receptors and glycoprotein VI cooperatively drive the platelet component in thromboelastography”, now in print in JTH with open access, was a collaborative effort between Robert Lee, Wolfgang Bergmeier and other members of the UNC Blood Research Center, and was driven by an outstanding undergraduate student Tanvi Rudran...
9 months ago
In case you missed the introduction, meet our new entering class of students.