Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

A new supplement to the NIGMS R35 grant  “Mechanisms of SWI/SNF complex assembly and function”  (Dr. Jesse Raab, PI) has been awarded to Jackie Brinkman, BS.

Graduate Students from the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology celebrated the end of academic year 2023-2024 with a summer kick-off on the lawn of Genetic Medicine Building on the UNC campus on Thursday, May 23.

The UNC Department of Genetics joined together the Department of Pharmacology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB), and the UNC Office of Rural Initiatives to participate in a day of community outreach with “Heal Day with the Heels”.

A new supplement to the Age-Based Genomic Screening (ABGS) project (PIs Drs. Milko and Berg) has been awarded to Grace Leon-Lozano, BS. 

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.