Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Daigle & Ambroise
2025-04-10 10:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | 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 Austin Daigle from the Parul Johri and Dan Schrider Labs and Rachelle Ambroise from the Li Qian and Di Wu Labs.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Rachel DuMez-Kornegay
2025-04-09 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 DuMez-Kornegay, Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student in the lab of Rob Dowen, on Wednesday, April 9, 2025.
Spilling the Tea: Elucidating the Host Response to the Consumption of Kombucha

Wednesday – GMB Defense: Rachel DuMez-Kornegay
2025-04-09 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Rachel DuMez-Kornegay, student of Rob Dowen. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuesday – GMB Defense: Natalie Rittenhouse
2025-04-08 15:30 - 16:30 | G100 Bondurant, 321 S. Columnbia St., Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Natalie Rittenhouse, student of Jill Dowen. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Puller & Okoroafor
2025-04-08 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 Gabby Puller from the Pat Brennwald Lab and Uchechi Okoroafor from the Sam Young Lab.

Friday – CANCELLED – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Deborah Winter
2025-04-04 12:00 - 13:00 | NC
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
*THIS TALK ON APRIL 4 HAS BEEN CANCELLED.*
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Deborah Winter, Associate Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology at Northwestern University, on Friday, April 4, 2025. Dr. Winter’s talk title is “A GRaNd Approach to Deciphering the Role of Macrophages in Disease”. Dr. Winter is hosted by Terry Furey, Professor of Genetics and Biology.

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Hamilton & Gillman
2025-04-03 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 Nolan Hamilton from the Terry Furey Lab and Madeline Gillman from the Laura Raffield Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Jason Stein
2025-04-02 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 Jason Stein, Associate Professor, UNC Department of Genetics and UNC Neuroscience Center, on Wednesday, April 2, 2025.
Genetics impacting brain size and function

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Salcido & Gerdes Gyuricza
2025-04-01 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 Ryan Salcido from the Mauro Calabrese Lab and Isabela Gerdes Gyuricza from the Jonathan Parr Lab.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Jadiel Wasson
2025-03-28 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 Jadiel Wasson, James Weldon Johnson Assistant Professor of Biology at New York University, on Friday, March 28, 2025. Dr. Wasson’s talk title is “From external cues to internal states: tuning inherited information”. Dr. Wasson is hosted by our Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students.

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Smyers & Kelestemur
2025-03-27 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 Nate Smyers from the Tim Elston Lab and Enes Kelestemur from the Alex Tropsha Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Margarita Dzama-Karels
2025-03-26 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 Margarita Dzama-Karels, Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Jesse Raab Lab, UNC Department of Genetics, on Wednesday, March 26, 2025.
The role of the menin-MLL complex in hepatocellular carcinoma survival and its potential for future treatment options

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Szymanski & Sokolowski
2025-03-25 09:00 - 10:00 | 6004 Marsico Hall, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27599, 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 Rachel Szymanski from the Frank Conlon Lab and Mallory Sokolowski from the Jesse Raab Lab.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Amy Weinmann
2025-03-21 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 Amy Weinmann, Professor of Medicine-Rheumatology at the University of Chicago, on Friday, March 21, 2025. Dr. Weinmann’s talk title is “Translating mechanisms between species: defining how evolutionary genome rearrangements affect gene programming potential in immune cells”. Dr. Weinmann is hosted by Ageliki Tsagaratou, Assistant Professor of Genetics.

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Rashid & Pharr
2025-03-20 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 Tooba Rashid from the Doug Phanstiel Lab and Tooba Rashid from the Yun Li Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Qingyun Liu
2025-03-19 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 welcomes Qingyun Liu, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics, on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.
From Global Dissemination to Local Outbreak: A Genomic Investigation of the Recent Expansion and Evolutionary Drivers of Mycobacterium abscessus

Wednesday – BCB Student Defense: Amjad Dabi
2025-03-19 10:00 - 11:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Amjad Dabi
Student of Dan Schrider
Wednesday, March 19, 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.

Tuesday – GMB Student Seminar Series: Boyson & Troncoso
2025-03-18 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 Sam Boyson from the Mauro Calabrese Lab and Karla Troncoso from the Bob Duronio Lab.

Monday - UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting: March 2025
2025-03-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Pagano Conference Room, 450 West Drive, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
UNC Department of Genetics Faculty Meeting
Monday, March 17, 12-1pm
Pagano Conference Room, LCCC 00-002

Friday – BCB Student Defense: Kathy Guan
2025-03-14 13:00 - 14:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Kathy Guan
Student of Tim Elston
Friday, March 14, 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.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: No Talk This Week
2025-03-12 12:00 - 13:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
Genetics Research Colloquium
There will be NO talk in this series on Wednesday, March 12, 2025.
The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium will resume on Wednesday, March 19, 2025.

UNC Spring Break 2025
2025-03-08 - 2025-03-16 | NC
UNC Spring Break 2025
See full academic calendar HERE.

Friday – GMB Defense: Nila Pazhayam
2025-03-07 10:00 - 11:00 | G030 Bondurant Hall, 321 South Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Nila Pazhayam, student of Jeff Sekelsky. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Sedona Murphy
2025-03-07 09:00 - 10:00 | 2004 Marsico Hall, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series
The GMB/BCB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Sedona Murphy, Associate Research Scientist in Cell Biology at Yale School of Medicine, on Friday, March 7, 2025. Dr. Murphy’s talk title is “Polymer insights: merging modeling and chromatin tracing to define the role of chromatin organization in epigenetic memory stability”. Dr. Murphy is hosted by UNC’s Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students.

Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Videgar-Laird, Lobanov, & Nallathambi
2025-03-06 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 Ryan Videgar-Laird from the Katie Hoadley Lab, Alec Lobanov from the Charles Perou Lab, and Amrita Nallathambi from the Brian Kuhlman Lab.

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Ageliki Tsagaratou
2025-03-05 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 Ageliki Tsagaratou, Assistant Professor, UNC Department of Genetics and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, on Wednesday, March 5, 2025.
Ten Eleven Translocation (TET) proteins in the spotlight: emerging roles in T cell development and function

Tuesday – CANCELLED - GMB Student Seminar Series: Edwards & Coke
2025-03-04 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 Alyssa Edwards from the Dale Ramsden Lab and Addie Coke from the Bob Goldstein and Christina Burch Labs.
CANCELLED
These talks have been rescheduled for Tuesday, May 13, 2025.

Monday – GMB Defense: Ellysa Vogt
2025-03-03 15:00 - 16:00 | G030 Bondurant Hall, 321 South Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
GMB Curriculum Student Defense
GMB Curriculum Student Defense: Ellysa Vogt, student of Amy Gladfelter. Presented in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

Monday – BCB Student Defense: Alex Crocker
2025-03-03 09:00 - 10:00 | 1131 Bioinformatics Building, 125 Mason Farm Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514, United States
BCB Curriculum Student Defense
Alex Crocker
Student of Tim Elston & Amy Gladfelter
Monday, March 3, 2025 at 9:00am
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.

Friday – GMB/BCB Seminar Series: Julia Mack
2025-02-28 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 Julia Mack, Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, on Friday, February 28, 2025. Dr. Mack’s talk title is “Flow Mediated Mechanisms of Vascular Resilience”. Dr. Mack is hosted by Victoria Bautch, Beverly Long Chapin Distinguished Professor of Biology and William Polacheck, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
