Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett

Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Mark Geisler in the lab of Bob Duronio published a paper titled “Cell-cycle-regulated transcriptional pausing of Drosophila replication-dependent histone genes” in the August 2025 issue of Molecular Biology of the Cell. Read paper HERE. See Cover Art HERE. By detecting nascent transcripts using high resolution...

Congratulation to Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Students Riya Gohil (Jill Dowen Lab) and Micah Hysong (Laura Raffield Lab), who were both selected in the top ten for the 2025 Three Minute Thesis!

Geoff Fox, a graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI), for his project titled “Connecting cohesin and SETD2 in the regulation of genome structure and function”....

Jayna Nicholas, a graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum, has been awarded a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (F31) from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), for her project titled “Cross-Ancestry Comparison of Aptamer and Antibody Proteomics Measures”. Jayna Nicolas is...

Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Noor Singh in the lab of Kacy Gordon published a paper titled “An RNAi screen of Rab GTPase genes in Caenorhabditis elegans reveals that morphogenesis has a higher demand than stem cell niche maintenance for rab-1 in the somatic cells of the reproductive system”...

The Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology officially welcomed our incoming 2025 class of new students with a full day symposium on Wednesday, May 28, 2025. 

Genetics and Molecular Biology Graduate Student Gabrielle Gentile in the lab of Jimena Giudice published a paper titled “Alternative splicing of the Snap23 microexon is regulated by MBNL, QKI, and RBFOX2 in a tissue-specific manner and is altered in striated muscle diseases” in the May 2025 issue of RNA Biology....

Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD (GMB Faculty Member), Misty Good, MD, MS, and Jason Stein, PhD (GMB Faculty Member), were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.

UNC-Chapel Hill and Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology faculty member Bob Goldstein was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences on April 23.

Kerry Bloom's lab investigates how centromeres, the crucial chromosomal regions for segregation, respond to mechanical stress during cell division.  Recent publication from the lab was included in the March 2025 issue of Current Biology.

Kylie VanDerMolen was awarded an F31 Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from NICHD.

UNC Chapel Hill’s GeNe Families group, which consists of graduate students in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and the Department of Genetics, celebrated community with a 2025 Chili Cook-Off on Tuesday, March 4.