6 years ago
Remote learning begins with successes, surprises
A look at how Carolina’s faculty and students are responding to remote teaching and learning in the first few days.
Tag: Student News
6 years ago
Carolina Student Impact Fund to Help Students Affected by COVID-19
UNC graduate students facing financial hardships because of the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak can apply for assistance through the Carolina Student Impact Fund.
6 years ago
Congratulations to graduate student Jean Marie Mwiza who was awarded a Predoctoral Fellowship by the AHA
Graduate Research Assistant, Jean Marie Mwiza, Receives Prestigious Predoctoral Fellowship From American Heart Association (AHA) Congratulations to Jean Marie Mwiza, a graduate research assistant in Dr. Bergmeier’s Lab, for recently receiving a prestigious predoctoral fellowship from AHA! Mr. Mwiza is a pathology graduate student who is jointly supervised by Alisa Wolberg in Pathology and Wolfgang …
6 years ago
Graduate Student Julia DiFiore receives her PhD!
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 …
6 years ago
Yasemin Cole Receives Gates Cambridge Scholarship
School of Medicine student Yasemin Cole will be attending the University of Cambridge pursuing a doctoral degree in genomic sciences. She was one of 28 individuals chosen nationwide for the competitive and fully funded scholarship.
6 years ago
Grad student Juan Carvajal-Garcia in Ramsden lab publishes paper on DNA Repair in Drosophila melanogaster, a species of fly
J. Carvajal-Garcia, E.R. Gales, D.A. Ramsden, and J. Sekelsky (2020). The Drosophila melanogaster ortholog of RFWD3 functions independently of RAD51 during DNA repair. G3 (Bethesda) 10: 999-1004. doi: 10.1534/g3.119.400903. Abstract Repair of damaged DNA is required for the viability of all organisms. Studies in Drosophila melanogaster, driven by the power of genetic screens, pioneered the discovery and characterization of many …
6 years ago
Graduate student Hanna Trzeciakiewicz receives her PhD!
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 …
6 years ago
UNC School of Medicine NIH Funding Jumps More Than $23 Million in Federal FY 2019
All six basic science departments rank in the top 10 in National Institutes of Health funding, according to a new report by the Blue Ridge Institute for Medical Research, and 12 clinical departments rank in the top 30.
6 years ago
Graduate Student Odessa Goudy speaks at Winter RosettaCON 2020
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.
6 years ago
Membership is open for Spring 2020 BCBP Synergy Meet-ups
BCBP Synergy was created to facilitate meetups and networking between members. Please join the spring 2020 BCBP Synergy groups.
6 years ago
Duke, UNC and NIEHS host first ever Triangle Area Cryo-Symposium
For two days Structural Biologists, from across the Piedmont, attended the first ever 2019 Triangle Area Cryo-EM Symposium
6 years ago
2019 Graduate Student Leaders
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.