Kelada Awarded New R01 from NIEHS

January 10, 2025

Dr. Samir Kelada (Associate Professor, Genetics) received a new R01 grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) for his project titled “Genetic mechanisms underlying maladaptive respiratory responses to air pollution”.

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Department of Genetics Publications for December 22nd, 2024 – January 4th, 2025

January 6, 2025

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during December 22nd, 2024 – January 4th, 2025.

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Department of Genetics Publications for December 8th – 21st, 2024

December 23, 2024

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 8 papers during December 8th – 21st, 2024.

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Department of Genetics Publications for November 24th – December 7th, 2024

December 16, 2024

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 17 papers during November 24th – December 7th, 2024.

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Thessen Publishes Genome-Phenome Association Study in Agronomy

December 9, 2024

Dr. Anne Thessen (Associate Professor, Genetics) was co-senior author of a paper titled “Post-GWAS Prioritization of Genome-Phenome Association in Sorghum” in the latest issue of Agronomy.

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UNC Scientists Discover New Details of Gene Regulation

December 5, 2024

A research team led by Daniel McKay, PhD, associate professor in the Departments of Biology and Genetics, has identified a key focal point in the biological processes that control cell identity and can lead to disease when mutated.

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32 Carolina faculty including Katie Hoadley and Jenny Ting from UNC Genetics named ‘highly cited researchers’

December 4, 2024

Clarivate’s 2024 international list of trailblazers among peers includes scholars in the Department of Genetics and from across the University.

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Department of Genetics Publications for November 10th – 23rd, 2024

December 3, 2024

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 19 papers during November 10th – 23rd, 2024.

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Haendel Awarded New ARPA-H Subcontract

November 19, 2024

Dr. Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor, Genetics and School of Data Science and Society) has received a new subcontract through University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) for an ARPA-H funded grant titled “CHARM: An End-to-End Toolchain for Collecting, Harmonizing, Analyzing, Reasoning about and Manipulating Biomedical Data”.

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Matthew Brush Receives CZI/Wellcome Award

November 14, 2024

Dr. Matthew Brush (Assistant Professor) received a Chan Zuckerberg/Wellcome Award for his project titled “LinkML: an open data modeling framework”. 

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