UNC BCB and GMB Graduate Students Celebrate the End of the Academic Year!

May 24, 2024

Graduate Students from the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology celebrated the end of academic year 2023-2024 with a summer kick-off on the lawn of Genetic Medicine Building on the UNC campus on Thursday, May 23.

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UNC Genetics, Pharmacology, BCB, and GMB Team Up With the UNC Office of Rural Initiatives for “Heal Day with the Heels 2024”

May 24, 2024

The UNC Department of Genetics joined together the Department of Pharmacology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB), and the UNC Office of Rural Initiatives to participate in a day of community outreach with “Heal Day with the Heels”.

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NHGRI Diversity Supplement Awarded to Grace Leon-Lozano

May 20, 2024

A new supplement to the Age-Based Genomic Screening (ABGS) project (PIs Drs. Milko and Berg) has been awarded to Grace Leon-Lozano, BS. 

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Dr. Karen Mohlke Awarded R01 Competitive Renewal from NIDDK

May 13, 2024

Karen Mohlke, PhD (Professor, Department of Genetics) was awarded a R01 from the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

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Dr. Jin Szatkiewicz Awarded New R01 from NIMH

May 13, 2024

Jin Szatkiewicz, PhD (Associate Professor, Department of Genetics) was awarded a four-year R01 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for her project titled “Integrating developmental and genomic approaches to identify early trajectories of eating and internalizing disorder symptoms”.

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Department of Genetics Publications for April 28th – May 11th, 2024

May 13, 2024

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during April 28th – May 11th 2024.

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Haendel Lab Publishes Postpartum Depression Paper

May 3, 2024

A new paper from the laboratory of Dr. Melissa Haendel was published in JMIR MHealth UHealth. 

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Inside AJHG: A Chat with Yun Li and Quan Sun

May 3, 2024

Each month, the editors of The American Journal of Human Genetics interview an author of a recently published paper.

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Department of Genetics Publications for April 14th – 27th, 2024

April 29, 2024

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 12 papers during April 14th – 27th 2024.

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Department of Genetics Publications for March 31st – April 13th, 2024

April 15, 2024

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 9 papers during March 31st – April 13th 2024.

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