Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

Laura Raffield, PhD has been appointed as tenure-track Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective 29 July 2022. 

Hector Franco, PhD (Assistant Professor, Genetics) was awarded a new R01 grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for his project titled “Posttranslational regulation of FOXA1 in breast cancer”. 

Yun Li, PhD (Professor, Genetics and Biostatistics) was awarded an R56 grant from the National Institute of Aging (NIA) for her project titled “Study of selective cell and system vulnerability in Alzheimer’s disease”. 

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 7 papers during July 31st – August 13th, 2022.   A multi-layer functional genomic analysis to understand noncoding genetic variation in lipids.  Ramdas S, Judd J, Graham SE, Kanoni S, Wang Y, Surakka I, Wenz B, Clarke SL, Chesi A, Wells...

Sarah Brotman (Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student in the Karen Mohlke lab), Saygin Gulec (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the Tim Elston and Klaus Hahn labs), and Nisitha Sengottuvel (Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student in the Chad Pecot lab) participated in the 2022 UNC “Shadow a...

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during July 17th – 30th, 2022.

Dr. Jesse Raab (Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics) has been awarded a five-year R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for his project titled “Mechanisms of SWI/SNF complex assembly and function”.

UNC School of Medicine researchers led by Hyejung Won, PhD, Assistant Professor of Genetics, used a new kind of computational tool to parse the complicated genetics that put some people at higher risk of becoming addicted to alcohol, cigarettes, and likely other substances of abuse.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 12 papers during July 3rd – 16th, 2022.

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research announced that AIxB: Building a collaborative ecosystem for innovation in Artificial Intelligence and the Biological Sciences is the winner of this year’s Creativity Hub Award.  Faculty from Genetics include Dr. Corbin Jones (PI, Professor, Biology and Genetics), Dr. Piotr Mieczkowski (co-I, Professor,...