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A new supplement to the NIGMS R35 grant  “Mechanisms of SWI/SNF complex assembly and function”  (Dr. Jesse Raab, PI) has been awarded to Jackie Brinkman, BS.

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.

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”.

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

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

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”.

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

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

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

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