Thursday – BCB Student Seminar Series: Davis & Tanikella
2025-09-18 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 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

Tuesday – Fall 2025 UNC Well-Being Day: No Classes
2025-10-07 | NC
UNC Well-Being Day
No Classes
Full Academic Calendar Here

Wednesday – Department of Genetics Colloquium: Greg Matera
2025-10-08 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 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.
