Welcome to the Department of Genetics
Message From Our Chair
The mission of the department is to provide basic and applied genetic/genomic research, education and training at the interface between biology, chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, the social sciences, public health and medicine in order to have a profound effect on how medicine will be practiced in the future.
Our graduate programs train students to be creative, sophisticated research scientists prepared to pursue careers focused in genetics and genomics working in academic science, government, or commercial positions. Students conduct their dissertation research using diverse experimental approaches – from classical genetics to the most modern molecular methods – to address a broad range of contemporary problems in biomedical science.
The Department also includes a clinical arm focused on medical genetics, which covers the broad spectrum of clinical genetic research from disease prevention to diagnosis and treatment. This specialty includes evaluation, mutation discovery, counseling and risk assessment through analysis and genetic testing. Locating the clinical group alongside basic scientists facilitates integration of cutting edge genetic research with patient care.
Department News
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Scientific Retreat Held March 15-17 Features Graduate Students and New Faculty
The annual Department of Genetics/BCB/GMB Scientific Retreat was held in Wilmington NC during the weekend of March 15-17, 2019.
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John Cornett selected for 2018-2019 Excellence in Graduate Student Services Manager Award
John was nominated by students in the BCB and GMB curricula and the award is provided by The Graduate School and the Graduate and Professional Student Federation.
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Scott Young Joins Department as Pre-Award Grants Manager
Welcome to Scott Young, Business Officer, who is assuming the role previously held by Ann Nochlin, who has now moved to a new position with the Clinical Genetics team in the department.
Welcome to our new WordPress website!
All the School of Medicine websites are moving to the UNC WordPress system. Please note that the For Faculty/Staff intranet link is now in the footer. If you have any web navigation issues or suggestions, please contact our webmaster at bclarke@med.unc.edu. We will continue to make updates to the styling of the website to take advantage of new WordPress features. We hope you’ll like it!
Highlighted Faculty
Daniel Schrider, PhD
Assistant Professor
Dr. Dan Schrider is expanding his laboratory to study the demographic forces shaping human genetic variation and using deep neural networks to elucidate the genealogical information among individuals and species. More…
Genetics News- UNC School of Medicine departments rank high in 2018 NIH funding report February 19, 2019
- Muenzer Presents Additional Results from Groundbreaking Genome Editing Clinical Trial February 7, 2019
- Mohlke named Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Genetics January 30, 2019
- New Genetic Risk Factors Discovered for Alzheimer's Disease January 7, 2019
- School of Medicine Researchers Make International Highly Cited Research List December 18, 2018