4 years ago
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.
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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 …
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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 …
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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.
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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.
4 years ago
BCBP Synergy was created to facilitate meetups and networking between members. Please join the spring 2020 BCBP Synergy groups.
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For two days Structural Biologists, from across the Piedmont, attended the first ever 2019 Triangle Area Cryo-EM Symposium
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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.
4 years ago
Wolfgang Bergmeier has been serving the department with Dale Ramsden as the co-director of the Graduate Studies program for the past 6 months. Dr. Bergmeier will become the Director of Graduate Studies beginning January 1, 2020.
4 years ago
Graduate students, recent graduate alumni within numerous programs earn honors for research benefiting North Carolina.
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Congratulations on this years’ graduate students who defended their theses and earned their Ph.D.’s.
4 years ago
Cryo Electron Microscopy (Cryo EM) Core launches website.
