Brian Garrett's design for the 2012 Retreat t-shirt

The National Academy of Sciences is an award of the highest scientific honor.

Congratulations to Brian Garrett (graduate student in the Neher lab) for creating the winning artwork in our retreat t-shirt design contest!

Sept 13, 2013 - Discovery by UNC researchers in the Parise lab uncover a prime suspect for new cancer drug development. The team’s findings were published in the journal Oncogene.

Congratulations to Dr. Mary Napier, Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, who is a recipient of a 2012 C. Knox Massey Distinguished Service Award.

The left panel illustrates the structure of a metal-binding RNA. Each nucleotide is colored according to its experimentally-determined exposure to the outside solvent. Blue nucleotides tend to be buried inside the structure, and red nucleotides are mostly

Dokholyan lab researchers publish a paper in the April 16, 2012 issue of Nature Methods demonstrating the structure and function of RNA molecules and paving the way to develop targets for new therapeutics.

Congratulations to Dr. Shobhan Gaddameedhi, postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr. Aziz Sancar, who received the third place award at the Postdoctoral Research Poster Forum of the 2nd annual Oliver Smithies Nobel Symposium.

Congratulations to Dr. Rinku Majumder, Research Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics, who receives a UNC Junior Faculty Research Award.

Dokholyan lab has a cover story in the December 7, 2011 issue of Structure. Dagliyan et al. present a rapid molecular dynamics-based approach to reveal the mechanism of protein-peptide recognition. The authors find that the peptide, rather than the protein, undergoes an induced fit, and that electrostatic interactions guide the peptide toward the binding region.

Congratulations to Dr. Henrik Dohlman, Professor & Vice-Chair of Biochemistry & Biophysics, who was elected as a 2011 AAAS fellow.

Circadian control of skin cancer. Image courtesy of Marian Miller (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH). Upper left quadrant: Hourtide by Edward Henry Potthast, 1920; Lower left quadrant: Sleeping Woman by Felix Valloton, 1899.

Exposure to UV radiation triggers DNA lesions that can lead to skin cancer, the most common type of cancer in the United States. Previous studies in mice have shown that levels of a protein called XPA, involved in repairing UV-induced DNA lesions, waxes and wanes with the time of day. Shobhan Gaddameedhi et al. found that the protein's level and activity in mouse skin cells are at their lowest at 4 AM and their highest at 4PM.

From the cover of JBC issue July 22, 2011

On the JBC Cover: The circadian clock is the internal timekeeping molecular system that generates a daily rhythm in an organism's physiology and behavior.

The American Society for Investigative Pathology (ASIP) announces that Ashley G. Rivenbark, PhD, a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at University of North Carolina School of Medicine, is the recipient of the 2010 ASIP Excellence in Science Award. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding achievement at the earliest stages of a career …

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Introducing the 2012 Research Retreat T-Shirt

Cell death mystery yields new suspect for cancer drug development

Mary Napier receives a Massey Award for Distinguished Service

Three-dimensional RNA modeling opens scientific doors

Shobhan Gaddameedhi places third at the poster competition of the Oliver Smithies Nobel Symposium

Rinku Majumder receives a UNC Research Council Award

Dokholyan lab featured on the cover of Structure

Henrik Dohlman elected as a 2011 AAAS Fellow

Sancar lab featured on “In This Issue” of PNAS, published on November 15, 2011

Sancar lab featured on the cover of JBC published on July 22, 2011

Rivenbark receives the ASIP Excellence in Science Award