Taking a short break from research and books Pumpkin Carving with graduate students.

Well wishers came to cheer on the finalists of the UNC Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis competition in Bondurant Hall G100 Tuesday October 30. Of the ten finalists, three are are from UNC School of Medicine departments: Alex Chung in the Parise lab, and Susanna Harris and Bhawana Shrestha in microbiology and immunology. The Three Minute …

Fall 2018, second year graduate students: Cari Koerner (Neher Lab), Adam Luthman (Ramsden Lab), Nick Martinez (Campbell Lab), and Keean Braceros (Calabrese Lab) learned valuable science communication skills from Biochemistry 701. This course helps students gain proficiency in evaluating limitations and alternative approaches in the literature, receive exposure to experimental methods, and practice communicating science …

Juanita Limas will receive $50,000 to support her biomedical research in the Cook lab.

UNC Graduate student, Nicholas Martinez, contributor to The Pipettepen

photo of man holding paper Ben S. Roberts, graduate student in Neher lab

Ben's paper explores the role of LMF1 in redox homeostasis.

photo of Stephan Kudlacek graduate student of Kuhlman lab UNC

The UNC School of Medicine labs of Brian Kuhlman, PhD, and Aravinda de Silva, PhD, found that key components of a potentially potent vaccine fall apart due to body temperature, leaving us susceptible to severe infection.

Vishwa Mohan and Sarah Wade published a new paper in Cerebral Cortex, 2018, 1-15, “Temporal Regulation of Dendritic Spines Through NrCAM-Semaphorin3F Receptor Signaling in Developing Cortical Pyramidal Neurons.” Vishwa Mohan, Chelsea S. Sullivan, Jiami Guo, Sarah D. Wade, Samarpan Majumder, Amit Agarwal, Eva S. Anton, Brenda S. Temple, and Patricia F. Maness. A new paper …

UNC School of Medicine scientists led by Nikolay Dokholyan, Michael Hooker Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, add to evidence that small aggregates of SOD1 protein are the brain-cell killing culprits in ALS, but the formation of larger, more visible, and fibril-like aggregates of the same protein may protect brain cells.

Congratulations to Nate Wesley who was awarded a Graduate Research Fellowship from the National Science Foundation.

The lab of Jean Cook, PhD, in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, found how a chain of proteins called an MCM complex could enable the fast cell-division that makes some forms of cancer so dangerous. The study first author Jacob Matson, a PhD candidate in the Cook lab performed most of the experiments.

Tom Lane under the direction of Dr. Kevin Slep, successfully defended his dissertation on November 3, 2017 and received his PhD!

Tag: Student News

Pumpkin Carving Madness

Alex Chung Makes it to Three Minute Thesis finals

Graduate students record Science Seminar Preview podcasts

Limas named 2018-19 Gilliam Fellow by HHMI

Putting the Brakes on CRISPR by Nicholas Martinez

Graduate Student Ben S. Roberts first authored paper in The EMBO Journal

Stephan Kudlacek First Authored Paper in JBC on Zika research

Maness lab news and updates

Large Aggregates of ALS-causing Protein Might Actually Help Brain Cells

Nate Wesley graduate student receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship

UNC Scientists Discover Proteins Keeping Stem Cells in their Undifferentiated State

Graduate student Tom Lane receives his PhD