Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

A new paper from the laboratory of Dr. Melissa Haendel was published in JMIR MHealth UHealth. 

Each month, the editors of The American Journal of Human Genetics interview an author of a recently published paper.

Dr. Bev Koller has been promoted to Professor with permanent tenure in the Department of Genetics, effective March 29, 2024.

Qingyun Liu, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) has published a paper in Nature Communications titled “Genetically encoded transcriptional plasticity underlies stress adaptation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis”.

Melissa Haendel, PhD, and her lab of 25-plus members will join UNC-Chapel Hill to focus on early diagnosis of childhood diseases and significantly improve quality of life outcomes.

Dr. James (Jim) Crowley has been promoted to Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective March 1, 2024. 

Dr. Katherine (Katie) Hoadley has been promoted to Associate Professor with permanent tenure in the Department of Genetics, effective March 29, 2024. 

Multiple graduate students from the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology generously volunteered their time and expertise for a recent Shadow a Scientist Outreach outreach event on March 22, 2024.

Laura Milko, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) was awarded a grant from the NC TraCS CTS Pilot Program.

Jason Stein, PhD (Associate Professor, Genetics and Neuroscience Center) has been awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Award from Ramona Optics for his project titled “A parallelized imaging platform for accurate and efficient long-term assessment of organoid growth”.