Wednesday – BCB Student Defense: Nick Randolph
2025-07-16 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Nick Randolph
Student of Brian Kuhlman
Wednesday, July 16, 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.

Monday - UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting: August 2025
2025-08-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting
Monday, August 18 / 12-1pm
Pagano Conference Room, LCCC 00-002

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Fall 2025 BCB Student Structured Interaction Session
2025-08-18 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
4:00 PM
“Structured Student Interaction” this week.
Opportunity for students interested in BCB Curriculum to learn more from Senior BCB Students.
The 2025 BCB Colloquium features talks from BCB Faculty and prospective BCB Faculty.
Talks begin on Monday, August 25, 2025.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Turcotte & Fraser
2025-08-19 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 Carolyn Turcotte from the Jeff Sekelsky Lab and Caroline Fraser from the Ian Davis Lab.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Yusha Liu & Michael Love
2025-08-25 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 Schisler, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, and William Valdar, Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics, this week.
Yusha Liu
Assistant Professor of Biostatistics
Dissecting tumor transcriptional heterogeneity from single-cell RNA-seq data by generalized binary covariance decomposition
Michael Love
Associate Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics
Readable genomics analysis code with tidyomics

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Droby
2025-08-26 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 speaker is Gaith Droby from the Cyrus Vaziri Lab.

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Zhu & Woolard
2025-08-28 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 Jiali Zhu from the Paul Maddox & Ehssan Nazockdast Labs and Alice Woolard from the Sarah Linnstaedt Lab.

Tuesday – BCB Student Defense: Sarah Parker
2025-09-02 10:00 - 11:00 | G100 Bondurant, 321 S. Columnbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Sarah Parker
Student of Doug Phanstiel
Tuesday, September 2, 2025 at 10:00am
G100 Bondurant Hall
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: Sam Wolff
2025-09-03 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 Sam Wolff, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics, on Wednesday, September 3, 2025.
Exploring Fractional Resistance in ER+/HER2- Breast Cancer and Beyond: A Team Approach

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Carrie Bernecky
2025-09-05 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 Carrie Bernecky, Assistant Professor, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, on Friday, September 5, 2025. Dr. Bernecky’s talk title is “Phosphorylation of the innate immune sensor MDA5 controls its specificity for RNA agonists”. Dr. Bernecky is hosted by Alain Laederach, Professor of Biology.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Wesley Legant & Tarek Zikry
2025-09-08 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 Wesley Legant, Assistant Professor, Lampe Biomedical Engineering & Pharmacology, and Tarek Zikry, Assistant Professor, School of Data Science & Society, this week.
Wesley Legant
Assistant Professor, Lampe Biomedical Engineering & Pharmacology
Dissecting tumor transcriptional heterogeneity from single-cell RNA-seq data by generalized binary covariance decomposition
Tarek Zikry
Assistant Professor, School of Data Science & Society
Readable genomics analysis code with tidyomics

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Si & Quickstad
2025-09-09 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 Yibo Si from the Henrik Dohlman Lab and Gabi Quickstad from the Terry Magnuson & Karl Shpargel Labs.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Alex Rubinsteyn
2025-09-10 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 Alex Rubinsteyn, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics, on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
Personalized immunotherapies targeting cancer/testis antigens in NUT carcinoma

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Felsheim
2025-09-11 10:00 - 11:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, 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 speaker is Brooke Felsheim from the Charles Perou Lab.

Monday – Fall 2025 UNC Well-Being Day: No Classes
2025-09-15 | NC
UNC Well-Being Day
No Classes
Full Academic Calendar Here

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Johnsen & Gohil
2025-09-16 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 Sean Johnsen from the Dan McKay Lab and Riya Gohil from the Jill Dowen Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Micah Hysong & Rachel Sharp
2025-09-17 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 Micah Hysong, Genetics & Molecular Biology Graduate Student, and Rachel Sharp, Neuroscience & Bioinformatics Graduate Student, on Wednesday, September 17, 2025.
Micah Hysong
Considering Social Determinants of Health in Complex Trait Genetics
Rachel Sharp
More Than the Sum of Our Genes: How Social Risk Shapes the Development of Bipolar Disorder

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Davis & Tanikella
2025-09-18 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 Elizabeth Davis from the Tim Elston Lab and Pradham Tanikella from the Di Wu Lab.

Monday - UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting: September 2025
2025-09-22 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting
Monday, September 22 / 12-1pm
Pagano Conference Room, LCCC 00-002

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Elizabeth Brunk & Yinglong Miao
2025-09-22 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 Elizabeth Brunk, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Chemistry, and Yinglong Miao, Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Computational Medicine, this week.
Elizabeth Brunk
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Chemistry
Adventures in single cell sequencing and imaging to understand extrachromosomal DNA
Yinglong Miao
Associate Professor, Pharmacology & Computational Medicine
Accelerated Molecular Simulations and Drug Discovery

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Geisler & Chack
2025-09-23 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 Mark Geisler from the Bob Duronio Lab and Aaron Chack from the Chad Pecot Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Yash Agrawal
2025-09-24 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 Yash N. Agrawal, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Medicine-Oncology, on Wednesday, September 24, 2025.
Phenotypes of CDK4/6 inhibitor response: Computational insights from bulk and single-cell transcriptomics

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Sutcliffe & Plotkin
2025-09-25 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 Matthew Sutcliffe from the Charles Perou Lab and Alec Plotkin from the Justin Milner and Natalie Stanley Labs.

Friday – GMB Defense: Jeanne-Marie McPherson
2025-09-26 10:30 - 11:30 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Jeanne-Marie McPherson, student of Bob Duronio and Dan McKay. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Xuanyao Liu
2025-09-26 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 Xuanyao Liu, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, University of Chicago, on Friday, September 26, 2025. Dr. Liu’s talk title is “Moving beyond cis gene regulation: the next steps to understand complex trait genetics”. Dr. Liu is hosted by Yun Li, Professor of Genetics and Biostatistics.
This seminar is co-hosted by PSTG, Program of Statistical & Translational Genomics.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Laura Ferguson & Adam Palmer
2025-09-29 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 Laura Ferguson, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Psychiatry, and Adam Palmer, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Computational Medicine, this week.
Laura Ferguson
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Psychiatry
Computational Genomics for Understanding and Treating Psychiatric Disorders
Adam Palmer
Assistant Professor, Pharmacology & Computational Medicine
How do drug combinations cure some cancers?

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Curtin & Edmiston
2025-09-30 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 Ian Curtin from the Jason Stein Lab and Sharon Edmiston from the Nancy Thomas Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Wenbo Wang & Hongyuan Cao
2025-10-01 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 Wenbo Wang, Biostatistics Graduate Student in the lab of Xihao Li, and Hongyuan Cao, Professor of Statistics, Florida State University, on Wednesday, October 1, 2025.
Wenbo Wang
Integrating Genomic and Proteomic Data Improves Complex Trait Prediction in Diverse Populations
Hongyuan Cao
Statistical replicability analysis of high-throughput experiments with applications to spatial transcriptomic studies

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: McGee & Lin
2025-10-02 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 Teresa McGee from the William Valdar Lab and John Lin from the Jeremy Wang Lab.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Karen Mohlke & Ran Zhang
2025-10-06 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 Karen Mohlke, Professor, Genetics, and Ran Zhang, Assistant Professor, School of Data Science and Society, this week.
Karen Mohlke
Professor, Genetics
Regulatory genetic effects on cardiometabolic disease
Ran Zhang
Assistant Professor, School of Data Science and Society
Decoding tissue and cellular complexity using machine learning
