Department of Genetics Publications for October 2025

November 5, 2025

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 40 papers in October 2025.

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Department of Genetics Hosts Wake Tech Community College (WTCC) Stem Academic and Research Training (START) Program Students

October 29, 2025

On October 24, 2025, the Department of Genetics hosted a group of 10 students from Wake Tech Community College (WTCC) who are part of the Stem Academic and Research Training (START) program.

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BCB and GMB Graduate Students Participate in the UNC Inaugural Graduate Research Symposium

October 27, 2025

Multiple Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students were selected from overwhelming interest to participate in the UNC Chapel Hill Inaugural Graduate Research Symposium on Thursday, October 23.

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Toro and Haendel Publish Mondo Paper in GENETICS

October 20, 2025

Drs. Sabrina Toro (Assistant Professor) and Melissa Haendel (Distinguished Professor) are the corresponding and senior authors, respectively, on a newly published manuscript titled “Mondo: Integrating disease terminologies across communities”.

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Department of Genetics Publications for September 2025

October 13, 2025

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 33 papers in September 2025.

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Tsagaratou Promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure

October 3, 2025

Dr. Ageliki Tsagaratou has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective September 26, 2025.

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Kelada Receives New R01 Grant from NIEHS

October 2, 2025

Dr. Samir Kelada (Associate Professor) was awarded a new R01 grant from NIEHS for his project titled “Discovery of gene-by-air pollution interactions in respiratory disease using genetically diverse mice with validation in humans”.

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Mohlke Awarded New RC2 Grant from NIDDK

October 2, 2025

Dr. Karen Mohlke (Professor) received a new RC2 award from NIDDK, designed to fund ambitious, interdisciplinary, and high-risk/high-reward projects.

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Stein Receives New Grant from NIH Office of the Director

October 2, 2025

Dr. Jason Stein (Associate Professor, Genetics and Neuroscience) was awarded a new Other Transaction (OT2) from the NIH Office of the Director for his project titled “Modeling autism-associated gene-by-environment interactions in human brain organoids”.

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Liu Receives New Innovator Award from NIAID

October 2, 2025

Dr. Qingyun Liu (Assistant Professor) has been awarded a DP2 New Innovator Award from NIAID for his project titled “Population genomics-guided dissection of the bacterial genetic basis of tuberculosis transmissibility”.

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