{"id":2266,"date":"2016-10-19T18:55:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/med.sites.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/directory\/jeremy-purvis\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T16:00:44","slug":"jeremy-purvis","status":"publish","type":"directory","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/directory\/jeremy-purvis\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Purvis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Training and Appointments.<\/strong> I was trained in systems biology under the mentorship of Scott Diamond<\/a>, Ravi Radhakrishnan<\/a>, and Galit Lahav<\/a> with a focus on computational modeling of cell signaling pathways. In 2013, I established my independent research group at UNC, where I hold appointments in the Department of Genetics and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2019, I relocated my laboratory to UNC\u2019s newly created research space for Computational Medicine<\/a>, a hub for interdisciplinary science.<\/p>\n

Research.<\/strong> My primary research interest is developing computational models that help us understand and manipulate cellular behavior. Recently, my group has focused on understanding the organization of the human cell cycle<\/a> with application to cancer therapy<\/a>. Over the years, we have collaborated with many outstanding scientists at UNC including Jean Cook<\/a>, Phil Spanheimer<\/a>, Mike Emanuele<\/a>, Adriana Beltran<\/a>, Gaorav Gupta<\/a>, Didong Li<\/a>, and Michael Kosorok<\/a>. One of my greatest joys as a faculty member is discovering the intellectual gifts in my colleagues, and then assembling these colleagues to build interdisciplinary teams to tackle complex research problems.<\/p>\n

Service.<\/strong> I serve the University in a number of capacities including Associate Chair for Education in my department, director of the Amgen Scholars Program<\/a>, and the Executive Committee for the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology curriculum. I have always felt at home in the University setting and am inspired by its teaching and research missions. This year, I had the privilege of joining the Academic Leadership Fellows Program, where I consider University-shaping issues alongside six remarkable colleagues<\/a> from across UNC’s college and schools. One of my long-term goals is to read one scholarly work from every faculty member at UNC.<\/p>\n

Personal.<\/strong> I grew up in Bradenton, Florida, home of the infamous Florida Man<\/a>. I live in Chapel Hill with my wife, Joy, and three rambunctious children. In my spare time, I enjoy producing and mixing electronic music<\/a> with aspirations of one day leaving academia to pursue my dream of becoming a DJ.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Training and Appointments. I was trained in systems biology under the mentorship of Scott Diamond, Ravi Radhakrishnan, and Galit Lahav with a focus on computational modeling of cell signaling pathways. In 2013, I established my independent research group at UNC, where I hold appointments in the Department of Genetics and the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2991,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-2266","directory","type-directory","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","odd"],"acf":[],"_upd_display_name":["Jeremy Purvis"],"_upd_reverse_display_name":["Purvis, Jeremy"],"_upd_last_name":["Purvis"],"_upd_first_name":["Jeremy"],"_upd_sortorder_override":["on"],"_upd_sortorder":["1"],"_upd_gallery_summary":["Professor\r\nPh.D., Computational Biology, Penn\r\n\r\nI grew up in Bradenton, Florida, home of the infamous\u00a0<\/span>Florida Man<\/span><\/a>. I live in Chapel Hill with my wife, Joy, and three rambunctious children. In my spare time, I enjoy <\/span>producing and mixing electronic music<\/span><\/a> with occasional delusions of one day leaving academia to pursue my dream of becoming a DJ.<\/span>"],"_upd_no_link":[],"_upd_degree1":[],"_upd_degree2":[],"_upd_email":[[{"email_text":"jeremy_purvis@med.unc.edu"}]],"_upd_phone":[],"_upd_address":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/directory"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3005,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/directory\/2266\/revisions\/3005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/purvislab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}