Jeremy Purvis, PhD (Associate Professor, Genetics and Computational Medicine) has been awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation for his project titled “Toward a revised model of the cell cycle that captures reversible and irreversible arrest”.
The overall goals of this project are (i) to understand how cells re-enter the cell cycle after arrest and (ii) to determine at what point cell cycle arrest becomes irreversible. The project also includes an annual field trip for seventh-grade students from Durham public schools to learn the fundamentals of the cell cycle and a partnership with UNC’s TEACCH autism program to employ neurodiverse individuals to carry out image analysis of single-cell data.