Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published eight papers during Dec. 29, 2019 – Jan. 11, 2020.

The UNC Department of Genetics Research Colloquium welcomes Will Valdar, Associate Professor, UNC Department of Genetics on Wednesday, February 12, 2020. This talk title is “The Multiparent Population as a Toolkit for Studying Gene by Treatment Interactions”. Pizza provided. Attendees must bring own drinks.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published seventeen papers during Nov. 17-30, 2019.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published eleven papers during Sept. 8-21, 2019.

The BCB Colloquium Series welcomes Will Valdar, Associate Professor of Genetics and BCB Director, and Youli Xia, BCB Graduate Student this week. Will Valdar’s talk title is “Modeling the Effect of Genetics, Treatment, and their Interaction in Multiparent Populations of Experimental Organisms”.  Youli Xia’s title is “DNA-based predictors for complex cancer phenotypes”.  The BCB Colloquium … Read more

Will Valdar, PhD has been appointed Director of the UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology curriculum, effective July 1, 2019.

Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published fifteen papers during March 10-23, 2019.

Dr. William Valdar, was accepted to the UNC Graduate School’s Frank Porter Graham Honor Society in recognition of outstanding contribution to graduate education at UNC.

Dr. Will Valdar has received an R35 Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (MIRA) for his project titled “Statistical Modeling of Multiparental and Genetic Reference Populations”.

During the last three weeks, Department of Genetics faculty members, along with their colleagues, have published 21 manuscripts on a wide variety of topics. A survey of current practices for genomic sequencing test interpretation and reporting processes in US laboratories. O’Daniel JM, McLaughlin HM, Amendola LM, Bale SJ, Berg JS, Bick D, Bowling KM, Chao … Read more