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Jenny Ting Awarded the 2017 Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award
January 11, 2017
Jenny PY Ting, PhD, William Rand Kenan Professor of Genetics, Co-Director of the Inflammatory Diseases Institute, and Director of the Center for Translational Immunology, has been awarded the 2017 Hyman L. Battle Distinguished Cancer Research Award in recognition of exceptional cancer research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel … Continued
Genetics Faculty Publications for December 2016
January 3, 2017
December was a very productive month for the Department of Genetics faculty, who published 30 manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. An NLRP3 Mutation Causes Arthropathy and Osteoporosis in Humanized Mice. Snouwaert JN, Nguyen M, Repenning PW, Dye R, Livingston EW, Kovarova M, Moy SS, Brigman BE, Bateman TA, … Continued
Department Mentoring Policies Updated December 14, 2016
The Department of Genetics mentoring policies for faculty and postdoctoral fellows and the Faculty Activity Report Form have been updated and can be found here. Fixed-term faculty mentoring sessions will be conducted three months prior to annual reappointment dates and the postdoc mentoring committee will meet quarterly.
Genetics Faculty Publications for Nov 25 – Dec 9
December 14, 2016
Over the last few weeks, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published eight manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. Long-term exercise in mice has sex-dependent benefits on body composition and metabolism during aging. McMullan RC, Kelly SA, Hua K, Buckley BK, Faber JE, Pardo-Manuel de … Continued
Genetics Faculty Publications for Nov 1 – Nov 25, 2016
November 30, 2016
During the month of November, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published eight manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A DNA methylation biomarker of alcohol consumption. Liu C, Marioni RE, Hedman ÅK, Pfeiffer L, Tsai PC, Reynolds LM, Just AC, Duan Q, Boer CG, Tanaka … Continued
Genetics Faculty Publications for Oct 15 – Nov 4, 2016
November 7, 2016
During the last three weeks, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published 21 manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A survey of current practices for genomic sequencing test interpretation and reporting processes in US laboratories. O’Daniel JM, McLaughlin HM, Amendola LM, Bale SJ, Berg JS, … Continued
Genetics Faculty Publications for Sept 25 – Oct 23
October 24, 2016
During the last thirty days, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published twelve manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. During the last thirty days, Genetics faculty have published twelve manuscripts on a wide variety of topics, including: impact of ovariectomy on anxiety-like behavior in mice; … Continued
Genetics Faculty Publications for Sept 18 – Oct 1, 2016
October 3, 2016
During the last two weeks of September, Genetics faculty members published seven manuscripts focused in multiple areas, including genomic terminology, clinical genomics, genome-wide associations for birth weight and correlations with adult disease, polygenic risk for schizophrenia, genetics of tobacco use, potential function of nuclear survival motor neuron complex and a … Continued
Michael I. Love, Dr. rer. nat., Appointed Assistant Professor in Department of Biostatistics with Joint Appointment in Department of Genetics
September 22, 2016
The research in his lab is focused on statistical and computational methods for the analysis of high-throughput sequencing assays to facilitate biomedical and biological research. Dr. Love has a primary appointment in Biostatistics and a joint appointment in Genetics. After receiving his M.S. in Statistics from Stanford University in 2010 … Continued
Whitmire and Lemon labs published in Science
September 19, 2016
Jason Whitmire, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Genetics and Stanley Lemon, MD, Professor in the Department of Medicine, were senior authors on a paper titled “MAVS-dependent host species range and pathogenicity of human hepatitis A virus” published in the journal Science. The paper, published in the 15 SEP … Continued
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