Thursday – UNC Fall Break 2024
2024-10-17 | NC
UNC Fall Break
No classes
See full academic calendar HERE

Friday – UNC Fall Break 2024
2024-10-18 | NC

Monday - UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting: October 2024
2024-10-21 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting
Monday, October 21, 12-1pm
Pagano Conference Room, LCCC 00-002
Lunch provided for this in-person meeting.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Fei Zou & To Be Determined, BCB Faculty Presentations
2024-10-21 16:00 - 17:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Colloquium
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The BCB Colloquium Series welcomes Fei Zou, Professor of Biostatistics, and To Be Announced, this week.
Fei Zou
Professor of Biostatistics
Enhanced Analytic Tools for Complex Biological Data Evaluation and Integration

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Si & Quickstad
2024-10-22 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, 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 and Karl Shpargel Labs.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Lina Guan & Jayna Nicholas
2024-10-23 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 Lina Guan, Biostatistics Graduate Student in the Yun Li Lab, UNC Departments of Genetics & Biostatistics, and Jayna Nicholas, Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student in the Laura Raffield Lab, UNC Department of Genetics, on October 23, 2024.
Lina Guan: Brain cell type transcriptome-wide association analysis identifies novel genes underlying incident stroke in high-risk individuals with chronic kidney disease
Jayna Nicholas: Cross-Ancestry Comparison of Aptamer and Antibody Proteomics Measures
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Dabi & Tanikella
2024-10-24 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

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Thursday, October 24 at 10am
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speaker is Amjad Dabi from the Dan Schrider Lab and Pradham Tanikella from the Di Wu Lab.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Shi-Yong Sun, PhD
2024-10-25 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 Shi-Yong Sun, PhD, Professor at Emory University School of Medicine, October 25, 2024. Dr. Sun’s talk title is “Managing the challenge issue of acquired resistance to third generation EGFR-TKIs in the treatment of lung cancer”. Dr. Sun is hosted by Pengda Liu, Associate Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics.

Monday – BCB Colloquium – Jonathan Schisler & William Valdar
2024-10-28 16:00 - 17:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Colloquium
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The BCB Colloquium Series welcomes Jonathan Schisler, Assistant Professor of Pharmacology, and William Valdar, Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics, this week.
Jonathan Schisler
Assistant Professor of Pharmacology
Integrating Local and Systemic Molecular Features to Define Respiratory Distress Endotypes
William Valdar
Professor of Genetics & Biostatistics
Integrating haplotype and causal inference approaches to study gene by treatment effects in humans and rodents

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Johnsen & Gohil
2024-10-29 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: Garrett Sessions & Lingbo Zhou
2024-10-30 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 in the Jeremy Purvis & Brian Diekman Labs, and Lingbo Zhou, Biostatistics Graduate Student in the Yun Li Lab, on October 30, 2024.
Garrett Sessions: Tracing the temporal and subpopulation dynamics of long-term senescence induction
Lingbo Zhou: Revisiting the WHO Catalogue of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) Drug-Resistant Mutations: A Critical Review and Future Directions
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Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Sutcliffe & McGee
2024-10-31 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

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Thursday, October 31 at 10am
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speaker is Matthew Sutcliffe from the Charles Perou Lab and Teresa McGee from the William Valdar Lab.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Edmiston & Curtin
2024-11-05 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 Sharon Edmiston from the Nancy Thomas Lab and Ian Curtin from the Jason Stein Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Kathryn Gessner
2024-11-06 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 Kathryn H. Gessner, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, UNC Departments of Urology and Genetics, November 6, 2024.
Unraveling the Complexity: The Impact of Intratumoral Heterogeneity in Genitourinary Cancers
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Wednesday – GMB Defense: Ying Wang
2024-11-06 12:00 - 13:00 | 2204 Medical Biomolecular Research Building
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Ying Wang, student of Pengda Liu. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Wednesday – BCB Student Defense: Ian Sturgill
2024-11-06 14:00 - 15:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Ian Sturgill
Student of Katie Hoadley & Jesse Raab
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 at 2:00pm
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: Lin & Lee
2024-11-07 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

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Thursday, November 7 at 10am
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speaker is John Lin from the Jeremy Wang Lab and Jin Seok (Andy) Lee from the Ben Vincent & Alex Rubinsteyn Labs.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Elizabeth Plender
2024-11-08 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 Elizabeth Plender, Graduate Researcher at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, University of Washington, November 8, 2024. Dr. Plender’s talk title is “Stuck in the MUC: analysis of structural genetic variation in mucin genes using long-read sequencing to reveal disease-associated polymorphisms”. Dr. Plender is hosted by Wanda O’Neal, Professor of Medicine-Pulmonary and Genetics.

Friday – GMB Defense: Daniel Kolbin
2024-11-08 15:00 - 16:00 | G100 Bondurant, 321 S. Columnbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Daniel Kolbin, student of Kerry Bloom. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Monday – GMB Defense: Victoria Parsons
2024-11-11 12:00 - 13:00 | 2204 Medical Biomolecular Research Building
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Victoria Parsons, student of Karen Mohlke. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Cohen & Arroyo
2024-11-12 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 Jonathan Cohen from the Jason Whitmire Lab and Oscar Arroyo from the Daniel McKay Lab.

Tuesday – GMB Defense: Cyril Anyetei-Anum
2024-11-12 15:00 - 16:00 | 215 Coker Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Cyril Anyetei-Anum, student of Dan McKay. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Wednesday - Kidney and Cardiovascular Disease Symposium
2024-11-13 09:00 - 12:00 | MBRB G202, 111 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
WEDNESDAY November 13
9AM-12PM – G202 MBRB
Kidney and Cardiovascular Disease Symposium
Sponsored by UNC Department of Genetics, and Program of Statistical and Translational Genomics

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Samir Kelada
2024-11-13 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 Samir Kelada, PhD MPH, Associate Professor, UNC Departments of Genetics, November 13, 2024.
Stories of gene-environment interaction in the onset of lung disease phenotypes learned from the Collaborative Cross
1131 Bioinformatics Building

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Karthikeyan & Gulec
2024-11-14 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology Student Seminar Series

1131 Bioinformatics Building

Thursday, November 14 at 10am
Weekly seminar series featuring talks from the students of the UNC Curriculum in Bioinformatics & Computational Biology. This week’s speaker is Dhuvi Karthikeyan from Alex Rubinsteyn & Ben Vincent Labs and Saygin Gulec from the Tim Elston & Klaus Hahn Labs.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Wenli Yang
2024-11-15 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 Wenli Yang, Assistant Professor of Medicine; Director, iPSC Core Facility, University of Pennsylvania, November 15, 2024. Dr. Yang’s talk title is “Interrogating type 2 diabetes GWAS targets in muscle using muscle cells, iPSCs and mouse”. Dr. Yang is hosted by Karen Mohlke, Professor & Associate Chair for Research of Genetics.

Monday - UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting: November 2024
2024-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting
Monday, November 18, 12-1pm
Pagano Conference Room, LCCC 00-002
Lunch provided for this in-person meeting.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Brinkman & Branham
2024-11-19 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 Jackie Brinkman from the Jesse Raab Lab and Erica Branham from the Sarah Linnstaedt Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Erin Heinzen
2024-11-20 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 Erin Heinzen, PharmD, PhD, Associate Professor, Eshelman School of Pharmacy and UNC Departments of Genetics, November 20, 2024.
Unraveling the molecular genetic signatures of focal epilepsy
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Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Louis-Marie Bobay
2024-11-22 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 Louis-Marie Bobay, Assistant Professor, Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State University, November 22, 2024. Dr. Bobay’s talk title is “Impact of recombination rate on the evolution of bacterial genomes”. Dr. Bobay is hosted by Qingyun Liu, Assistant Professor of Genetics.
