Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Marielle Bond
2024-12-11 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 Marielle Bond, Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student in the labs of Doug Phanstiel and Hyejung Won, December 11, 2024.
Long-range gene regulation in development and disease
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Rachel Lynch
2024-12-18 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 Rachel Lynch, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics, and Director, Systems Genetics Core Facility, December 18, 2024.
The Systems Genetics Core Facility: 5-year review of efforts to increase access, rigor, and reproducibility to the Collaborative Cross Population
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Martin Ferris
2025-01-08 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 Martin T. Ferris, Associate Professor, UNC Department of Genetics, on Wednesday, January 8, 2025.
Dissecting the genetic basis of protective and pathalogic adaptive immunity with the Collaborative Cross
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Thursday - Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Hyo Sik Jang
2025-01-09 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Hyo Sik Jang
“Leveraging epigenetic and metabolic vulnerabilities to improve immunotherapy approaches in genitourinary cancers”
Hyo Sik Jang, PhD
VAI Fellow
Van Andel Institute

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Jeffrey Bailey
2025-01-10 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 Jeffrey Bailey, Mencoff Family Associate Professor of Translational Research, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Brown University, on Friday, January 10, 2025. Dr. Bailey’s talk title is “The genomics and genetics of emerging drug and diagnostic resistance in Plasmodium falciparum in sub-Saharan Africa”. Dr. Bailey is hosted by UNC’s Genetic and Molecular Biology Graduate Students.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Zhao & Whitworth
2025-01-14 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 Jingyu Zhao from the Sam Lai Lab and Chloe Whitworth from the Bill Polacheck & Vicki Bautch Labs.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Laura Milko
2025-01-15 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 Laura Milko, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics, on Wednesday, January 15, 2025.
Public Health Genetics: Advancing Rare Genetic Disease Research into Effective and Equitable Healthcare Practices
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Thursday - Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Wen-Wei Liang
2025-01-16 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Wen-Wei Liang
“High-throughput Discovery of Epigenetic Drivers in Stochastic Selection”
Wen-Wei Liang, PhD
Postdoctoral Research Associate
NY Genome Center & NY University

CANCELLED Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Alexander Gusev
2025-01-17 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series – CANCELLED
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Alexander Gusev, Associate Professor at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School, on Friday, January 17, 2025. Dr. Gusev’s talk title is “Leveraging large-scale epigenetic variation to identify novel context-specific disease mechanisms”. Dr. Gusev is hosted by Jason Stein, Associate Professor of Genetics.

Monday - UNC Holiday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday 2025
2025-01-20 | NC
UNC Holiday – Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday
Offices Closed
No Classes
UNC HR Holiday Calendar
UNC Academic Calendar

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Weerasinghe & Santa Rosa
2025-01-21 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 Charles Perou Lab and Priscila Santa Rosa from the Jeff Sekelsky and Bob Duronio Labs.

Wednesday – CANCELLED - Department of Genetics Colloquium: Jason Stein
2025-01-22 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium – CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Jason Stein, Associate Professor, UNC Department of Genetics and UNC Neuroscience Center, on Wednesday, January 22, 2025.
Genetics impacting brain size and function
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Monday - UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting: January 2025
2025-01-27 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting
Monday, January 27, 12-1pm
Pagano Conference Room, LCCC 00-002
Lunch provided for this in-person meeting.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Nicholas & McAfee
2025-01-28 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 Jayna Nicholas from the Laura Raffield & Karen Mohlke Labs and Jessica McAfee from the Hyejung Won Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Harmony R. Salzler
2025-01-29 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 Harmony R. Salzler, Research Scientist in the lab of Greg Matera, UNC Departments of Biology & Genetics, on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.
Different Genes for Different Scenes: Exploring Context-Dependence Along the Set2/H3K36 Axis

Thursday - Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Matthew Jones
2025-01-30 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Matthew Jones
“Unraveling the Evolutionary Principles of Cancer”
Matthew Jones, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Mahmoud & Lester
2025-02-04 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 Mohamed Mahmoud from the Jeff Sekelsky Lab and Sarah Lester from the Samir Kelada and Karen Mohlke Labs.

Tuesday – GMB Defense: Kevin Field
2025-02-04 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Kevin Field, student of Ian Davis. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Thursday - Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Inna Averbukh
2025-02-04 14:00 - 15:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics/Computational Medicine/Cancer Center Faculty Candidate Seminar: Inna Averbukh
“Quantitative and Spatial Approaches to Women’s Health”
Inna Averbukh, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar
Stanford University

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Christoph Rau
2025-02-05 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 Christoph Rau, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics and Computational Medicine Program, on Wednesday, February 5, 2025.
But What’s In It? Better Understanding Heart Failure Through the Lens of Cell-Type Composition

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Kamat, Joshi, & Giri
2025-02-06 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 Kalika Kamat from the Martin Ferris & Mark Heise Labs, Keya Joshi from the Yinglong Miao Lab, and Gilbert Giri from the Daniel Dominguez Lab.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Peter Castaldi
2025-02-07 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 Peter Castaldi, Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, on Friday, February 7, 2025. Dr. Castaldi’s talk title is “Feeling the Stress: How GWAS Reveals Links Between COPD, Alternative Splicing, and Nonsense-Mediated Decay”. Dr. Castaldi is hosted by Alain Laederach, Professor of Biology.

Monday – Spring 2025 UNC Well-Being Day: No Classes
2025-02-10 | NC
UNC Well-Being Day
No Classes
Full Academic Calendar Here

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Jenny Goldstein
2025-02-12 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 Jenny Goldstein, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics, on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
Assessing the pathogenicity of genetic variants in human lysosomal diseases

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Forbes & Risemberg
2025-02-13 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 Kwame Forbes from the Daniel Dominguez & Maria Aleman Labs and Ellen Risemberg from the William Valdar & Martin Ferris Labs.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Matthew Hahn
2025-02-14 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 Matthew Hahn, Distinguished Professor of Biology and Computer Science at Indiana University, on Friday, February 14, 2025. Dr. Hahn’s talk title is “The “faulty male” hypothesis: Implications for evolution and disease”. Dr. Hahn is hosted by Dan Schrider, Associate Professor of Genetics.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Kornegay & Koitz
2025-02-18 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 Benjamin Kornegay from the Jill Dowen Lab and Fred Koitz from the Kacy Gordon Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: CANCELLED
2025-02-19 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 scheduled on Wednesday, February 19, 2025 has been cancelled due to a Winter Weather Advisory for our area.

Thursday – CANCELLED - BCB Student Seminar Series: Eberhard & Connelly
2025-02-20 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series
TODAY’S TALKS ARE CANCELLED DUE TO WEATHER CONDITIONS AND UNC AT CONDITION 2.

Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speakers are Quinn Eberhard from the Mauro Calabrese & Alain Laederach Labs and Sean Connelly from the Jonathan Juliano & Yun Li Labs.

Friday – CANCELLED - GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Berkley Gryder
2025-02-21 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
CANCELLED – SPEAKER IS RESCHEDULED TO MAY 2 DUE TO WEATHER.
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Berkley Gryder, Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Genetics & Genome Sciences, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, on Friday, February 21, 2025. Dr. Gryder’s talk title is “Drugging Enhancer Addition in Cancer”. Dr. Gryder is hosted by Nate Hathaway, Associate Professor, Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry.
