Department of Genetics Publications for Sept. 9 – 22, 2018
September 24, 2018
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published five papers during Sept. 9-22, 2018
News
Mark Heise, PhD, Named Outstanding Mentor by Office of Postdoctoral Affairs
September 21, 2018
Congratulations to Mark Heise, PhD, who has been named a 2018 Outstanding Mentor by the UNC Office of Postdoctoral Affairs!
Department of Genetics Grant Awards for June-August 2018
September 19, 2018
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs and students were awarded more than $2.3M in grants during the months of June – August 2018.
Department of Genetics Publications for August 26 – Sept. 8, 2018
September 10, 2018
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published eleven papers during Aug. 26 – Sept. 8, 2018.
Department of Genetics Publications for Aug. 12-25, 2018
August 27, 2018
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published six papers during Aug. 12-25, 2018.
Department of Genetics Publications for July 29 – Aug. 11, 2018
August 13, 2018
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published eleven papers during July 29 – Aug. 11, 2018.
Highlighted Faculty: Daniel Schrider, PhD, Assistant Professor
August 13, 2018
Dr. Dan Schrider is expanding his laboratory to study the demographic forces shaping human genetic variation and using deep neural networks to elucidate the genealogical information among individuals and species.
Ageliki Tsagaratou, PhD, Appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics
August 13, 2018
Dr. Tsagaratou’s research interests are focused on epigenetic and transcriptional regulation in T cell differentiation, function and disease.
Hyejung Won, PhD, Appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics
August 13, 2018
Dr. Won’s research interests are focused on bridging the gap between genetic risk factors for psychiatric illnesses and neurobiological mechanisms by decoding the regulatory relationships of the non-coding genome.
Dan McKay, PhD, Awarded Early Stage Investigator MIRA Award (R35)
July 30, 2018
Dr. Dan McKay, Assistant Professor, Biology and Genetics and Integrative Program for Biological and Genome Studies (iBGS), has received an R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for his project titled “Genetic and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Developmental Gene Regulation".