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More than fifty faculty members from the Department of Genetics participated in the first annual Winter Faculty Retreat on Wed., March 7.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published eleven papers during Feb. 25 – March 10, 2018.

Dr. Schrider’s research interests lie in the area of developing machine learning methods for leveraging population genetic data to make inferences about natural selection and demographic events such as migration and population size change.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published fourteen papers during Feb. 11-24, 2018. The Integrated Genomic Landscape of Thymic Epithelial Tumors. Radovich M, Pickering CR, Felau I, Ha G, Zhang H, Jo H, Hoadley KA, Anur P, Zhang J, McLellan M, Bowlby R, Matthew T, Danilova L, Hegde AM, Kim...

For grants submitted after January 25, 2018, NIH has instituted significant changes for applications proposing clinical trials and/or work with human subjects. The new requirements affect how and where information is presented regarding human subjects, enrollment and clinical trial information.  This information will now be collected at the “study” level...

Congratulations to Andrew Morgan, PhD for being awarded the Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Biological and Life Sciences from The Graduate School at UNC. Andrew and his dissertation committee were commended for the originality and significance of his research.  He will be recognized at The Graduate School’s...

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published eleven papers during Jan. 28-Feb. 10, 2018. Anticipated responses of early adopter genetic specialists and nongenetic specialists to unsolicited genomic secondary findings. Christensen KD, Bernhardt BA, Jarvik GP, Hindorff LA, Ou J, Biswas S, Powell BC, Grundmeier RW, Machini K, Karavite...

The UNC Department of Genetics will host a Faculty Winter Retreat on Wednesday, March 7, 2018 from 9am until 4pm. The retreat will be held at the Rizzo Center in Chapel Hill. Department of Genetics Faculty Winter Retreat March 7, 2018.  9am – 4pm Rizzo Center For more information, contact...

Department of Genetics faculty and collaborators published four papers during Jan. 14-27, 2018. Examining the role of common and rare mitochondrial variants in schizophrenia. Gonçalves VF, Giamberardino SN, Crowley JJ, Vawter MP, Saxena R, Bulik CM, Yilmaz Z, Hultman CM, Sklar P, Kennedy JL, Sullivan PF, Knight J. PLoS One....

Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena, PhD, has been appointed Chair of the UNC Department of Genetics. He will officially begin in his new role on March 1, subject to confirmation by the necessary UNC system entities. Pardo Manuel de Villena has served as Interim Chair since July of 2016. Fernando...