Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Greg Matera
2025-10-08 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Greg Matera, Director, IBGS Program, Professor of Biology and Genetics, on Wednesday, October 8, 2025.
Engineering Histone Genes to Decipher Epigenetic Regulatory Information

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Lee & Giri
2025-10-09 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speakers are Jin Seok (Andy) Lee from the Alex Rubinsteyn Lab & Ben Vincent Labs and Gilbert Giri from the Daniel Dominguez Lab.

Friday - POSTPONED - GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Rajula Elango Alleva
2025-10-10 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
**THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED.
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Rajula Elango Alleva, Principal Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health, on Friday, October 10, 2025. Dr. Alleva’s talk title is “Tracking the molecular fate of DNA-protein crosslinks in mammalian cells”. Dr. Alleva is hosted by Dale Ramsden, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Sarah Linnstaedt & Christoph Rau
2025-10-13 16:00 - 17:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Colloquium
1131 Bioinformatics Building

The BCB Colloquium Series welcomes Sarah Linnstaedt, Associate Professor, Anesthesiology, and Christoph Rau, Assistant Professor, Genetics, this week.
Sarah Linnstaedt
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Data-driven insights into risk and resilience following traumatic stress exposure
Christoph Rau
Assistant Professor, Genetics
Genetic contributors to cardiac cell-type composition in the Collaborative Cross

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Brinkman & Branham
2025-10-14 09:00 - 10:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics & Molecular Biology Student Seminar Series
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Genetics & Molecular Biology.
This week’s speakers are Jackie Brinkman from the Jesse Raab Lab and Erica Branham from the Sarah Linnstaedt Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Garrett Sessions
2025-10-15 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Garrett Sessions, Cell Biology and Physiology Graduate Student, Jeremy Purvis Lab & Brian Diekman Labs, on Wednesday, October 15, 2025.
Trajectories of cellular senescence: From health to disease

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Shawn Ahmed
2025-10-20 16:00 - 17:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Colloquium
1131 Bioinformatics Building

The BCB Colloquium Series welcomes Shawn Ahmed, Professor of Biology & Genetics, this week.
Shawn Ahmed
Professor of Biology & Genetics
Rewriting the sequence of telomeric DNA

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Arroyo & Abrash
2025-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics & Molecular Biology Student Seminar Series
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Genetics & Molecular Biology.
This week’s speakers are Oscar M. Arroyo from the Daniel J. McKay Lab and Elizabeth Abrash from the Mauro Calabrese Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Fei Zou
2025-10-22 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Fei Zou, Professor of Biostatistics and Genetics, on Wednesday, October 22, 2025.
Integrated Data Analysis of Public Genomics Data and EHR Data

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Sharp & Kamat
2025-10-23 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speakers are Rachel R. Sharp from the Michael I. Love Lab and Kalika Kamat from the Martin Ferris and Mark Heise Lab.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario
2025-10-24 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Arnaldo Carreira-Rosario, Assistant Professor of Biology at Duke University, on Friday, October 24, 2025. Dr. Carreira-Rosario’s talk title is “Emergence of neural activity during development”. Dr. Carreira-Rosario is hosted by Kacy Gordon, UNC Assistant Professor of Biology.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Jonathan Parr & William Valdar
2025-10-27 16:00 - 17:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Colloquium
1131 Bioinformatics Building

The BCB Colloquium Series welcomes Jonathan Parr, Associate Professor, Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, and William Valdar, Professor, Genetics & Biostatistics, this week.
Jonathan Parr
Associate Professor, Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Ecology Lab (IDEEL)
William Valdar
Professor, Genetics & Biostatistics
Inferring gene-by-environment interactions and causality in genetically diverse populations

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Zhao & Whitworth
2025-10-28 09:00 - 10:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics & Molecular Biology Student Seminar Series
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Genetics & Molecular Biology.
This week’s speakers are Jingyu Zhao from the Sam Lai Lab and Chloe Whitworth from the Bill Polacheck & Vicki Bautch Labs.

Wednesday – BCB Student Defense: Emma Wilson
2025-10-29 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Emma Wilson
Student of Karen Mohlke & Yun Li
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 10:00am
1131 Bioinformatics Building
Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
This student defense will be broadcast via Zoom. Link will be provided through UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology emails. Contact jcornett@email.unc.edu for meeting link if you have not received. Links will be provided to UNC affiliated email addresses only or through written consent of defending student.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Meaghan Kennedy Ng
2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Meaghan Kennedy Ng, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, on Wednesday, October 29, 2025.
Characterizing the Gene Regulatory Landscape of the Inflammatory Bowel Diseases with De Novo Transcriptome Assembly Approaches

Wednesday – BCB Student Defense: Meaghan Kennedy Ng
2025-10-29 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Meaghan Kennedy Ng
Student of Terry Furey & Shehzad Sheikh
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 12:00pm
1131 Bioinformatics Building
Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
This student defense will be broadcast via Zoom. Link will be provided through UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology emails. Contact jcornett@email.unc.edu for meeting link if you have not received. Links will be provided to UNC affiliated email addresses only or through written consent of defending student.

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Karthikeyan & Gulec
2025-10-30 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speakers are Dhuvarakesh (Dhuvi) Karthikeyan from the Alex Rubinsteyn and Ben Vincent Labs and Saygin Gulec from the Tim Elston and Klaus Hahn Labs.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Jason Somarelli
2025-10-31 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Jason Somarelli, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Duke University, on Friday, October 31, 2025. Dr. Somarelli’s talk title is “Targeting cellular persistence to overcome hormone therapy resistance in prostate cancer”. Dr. Somarelli is hosted by Brian C Miller, UNC Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Oncology.

Friday – BCB Student Defense: Nina Nishiyama
2025-10-31 13:00 - 14:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Nina Nishiyama
Student of Terry Furey & Shehzad Sheikh
Wednesday, October 29, 2025 at 1:00pm
1131 Bioinformatics Building
Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
This student defense will be broadcast via Zoom. Link will be provided through UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology emails. Contact jcornett@email.unc.edu for meeting link if you have not received. Links will be provided to UNC affiliated email addresses only or through written consent of defending student.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Weerasinghe & VanDerMolen
2025-11-04 09:00 - 10:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics & Molecular Biology Student Seminar Series
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Genetics & Molecular Biology.
This week’s speakers are Isurika Weerasinghe from the Chuck Perou Lab and Kylie VanDerMolen from the Rob Dowen Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Dina O'Connell
2025-11-05 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Dina O’Connell, Pathology Lan Medicine Graduate Student in the lab of Charles Perou, on Wednesday, November 5, 2025.
Genomic Characterization of the Tumor Microenvironment and Immune Activation in Breast Cancer

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Koirala & Forbes
2025-11-06 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speakers are Kushal Koirala from the Alex Tropsha Lab and Kwame Forbes from the Daniel Dominguez and Maria Aleman Labs.

Friday – POSTPONED – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Rajula Elango Alleva
2025-11-07 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
**THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN AND HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO SPRING 2026.
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Rajula Elango Alleva, Principal Investigator, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/National Institutes of Health, on Friday, November 7, 2025. Dr. Alleva’s talk title is “Tracking the molecular fate of DNA-protein crosslinks in mammalian cells”. Dr. Alleva is hosted by Dale Ramsden, Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Monday – GMB Defense: Mickey Murvin
2025-11-10 09:00 - 10:00 | G100 Bondurant, 321 S. Columnbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Mickey Murvin, student of Mauro Calabrese. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Santa Rosa & Nicholas
2025-11-11 09:00 - 10:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics & Molecular Biology Student Seminar Series
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Genetics & Molecular Biology.
This week’s speakers are Priscila Santa Rosa from the Jeff Sekelsky & Bob Duronio Labs and Jayna Nicholas from the Laura Raffield & Karen Mohlke Labs.

Wednesday – BCB Student Defense: Jordan Valone
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Jordan Valone
Student of Jason Stein
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 12:00pm
1131 Bioinformatics Building
Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.
This student defense will be broadcast via Zoom. Link will be provided through UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology emails. Contact jcornett@email.unc.edu for meeting link if you have not received. Links will be provided to UNC affiliated email addresses only or through written consent of defending student.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Jordan Valone
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Jordan Valone, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the lab of Jason Stein, on Wednesday, November 12, 2025.
Consider the Context: Characterizing Stimulus-Dependent Genetic Effects in Human Neural Progenitor Cells

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Flores & Breau
2025-11-13 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speakers are JP Flores from the Doug Phanstiel Lab and Keith Breau from the Scott Magness & Tim Elston Labs.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Gina Pham
2025-11-14 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Gina Pham, Associate Director, Genomics at Pairwise, on Friday, November 14, 2025. Dr. Pham’s talk title is “Game of Thorns: identification of a causal mutation for thornlessness in blackberry”. Dr. Pham is hosted by Mauro Calabrese, Associate Professor of Pharmacology.

Monday - UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting: November 2025
2025-11-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting
Monday, November 17 / 12-1pm
Pagano Conference Room, LCCC 00-002
