The Genetics Department is proud to highlight Associate Professor, Dr. Adriana Beltran, for her excellence in service, teaching, and mentoring.

The Department of Genetics is pleased to announce the membership of the Department’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Committee.

NIH/AHRQ/NIOSH released a notice on October 25th 2022 to extend the special exception for post-submission material due to COVID-19 pandemic (see NOT-OD-21-179; NOT-OD-22-047, NOT-OD-22-113) to include applications submitted for May 2023 Council (NOT-OD-23-006, which begins with applications submitted for the September 25, 2022 due date. Notably, a one page update with preliminary data is now considered acceptable post-submission … Continued

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 10 papers during October 9th – 22nd, 2022.

Rachel DuMez, a graduate student in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, won the Peoples’ Choice Award for her research of the health benefits of popular style of drink known as kombucha.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 10 papers during September 25th – October 8th, 2022.

Congratulation to Rachel DuMez, Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student, and Ellen Risemberg, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student, who were both selected in the top ten for Three Minute Thesis!

Dr. Hyejung Won (Assistant Professor, Genetics) was selected as the recipient of a Jefferson-Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine, which recognizes exceptional junior faculty in the UNC School of Medicine.

Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD (Associate Professor, Genetics) has been awarded a Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement, recognizing her groundbreaking and innovate research and future career promise.

Dr. Yun Li’s laboratory has published a new manuscript titled “MagicalRsq: Machine-learning-based genotype imputation quality calibration” in the American Journal of Human Genetics.