Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

Dr. Ichiro Misumi (Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics) has been awarded a pilot grant from the UNC Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD).

Dr. Yun Li (Professor, Department of Genetics) was awarded Boost funding from the UNC SOM Dean’s Office for her project “Genetics of mammalian chromatin interactome”.

Dr. Lisa Tarantino (Associate Professor, Department of Genetics) was awarded Bridge funding from the UNC SOM Dean’s Office for her project in the P50 grant “Center for Systems Neurogenetics of Addiction”.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published nineteen papers during May 16-29, 2021.

Dr. Karen Mohlke (Professor, Department of Genetics) has been reappointed for an additional five years as an Oliver Smithies Investigator.

Announcements, Forward Together meetings, highlights and productivity, removal of physical distancing, space utilization and Working Forward updates.

Dr. Jason Stein (Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics) and colleagues have published a manuscript in Nature Neuroscience (20 May 2021) titled “Cell-type specific effects of genetic variation on chromatin accessibility during human neuronal differentiation”.

Dr. Samir Kelada (Associate Professor, Department of Genetics) has been awarded a new R21 grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) for his project titled “A New Mouse Model of Severe Asthma”.

Emma Hinkle, 4th year PhD candidate and NIH Predoctoral Fellow (Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, Giudice lab) published an article titled “Three ways that the field of genetics can be more equitable” on the Genes to Genomes blog sponsored by the Genetics Society of America (GSA).

Dr. Yun Li (Professor, Department of Genetics) is a co-corresponding author with Dr. Hongtu Zu (Professor, Department of Biostatistics) of the paper titled “Transcriptome-wide association analysis of brain structures yields insights into pleiotropy with complex neuropsychiatric traits” that was published on May 17, 2021 in Nature Communications.