Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

The Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research at UNC-Chapel Hill announced the six pre-proposal winning teams for this year’s Creativity Hubs seed funding competition. More than 20 of the researchers involved are from the UNC School of Medicine.

For the first time, researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, led by Assistant Professor of Genetics Hector Franco, PhD, have determined, cell-by-cell, the genetic and epigenetic state of ovarian and endometrial tumors.

Researchers at UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, led by Distinguished Professor of Genetics Charles Perou, PhD, have taken a major step forward in melding two key methods for studying breast cancer: one by genetic analysis and the second by looking at the architecture of cells, or their pathology.

Dr. David Corcoran was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective November 1, 2021.

Dr. Yihsuan (Shannon) Tsai was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective October 1, 2021.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 16 papers during November 14th – 27th 2021.

Brea Hampton, a Genetics and Molecular Biology graduate student and member of the Department of Genetics, in the labs of Dr. Mark Heise and Dr. Marty Ferris, has been featured in "Taking a seat with Carolina’s researchers".

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 12 papers during October 31st – November 13th 2021.   A multi-omic single-cell landscape of human gynecologic malignancies.  Regner MJ, Wisniewska K, Garcia-Recio S, Thennavan A, Mendez-Giraldez R, Malladi VS, Hawkins G, Parker JS, Perou CM, Bae-Jump VL, Franco HL. Mol...

Ellysa Vogt is a graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum and a member of the Amy Gladfelter laboratory, where she studies the structural and functional plasticity of the septin cytoskeleton in an extremophile black yeast.

Dr. Hyejung Won was recruited to the Department of Genetics and the Neuroscience Center at UNC Chapel Hill in 2018. Her up-and-coming research program integrates innovative genomic approaches with basic neurobiology to develop a systematic understanding of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Won’s scientific career began at KAIST in Daejeon,...