Category: News

Rowan Beck (Praveen Sethupathy and Mirek Styblo labs) published an article titled, “Circulating miRNAs Associated with Arsenic Exposure” in Environmental Science and Technology (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06457).  Image: Outline of experimental strategy. See paper for details.   Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) gave a talk titled “A novel function for centromere-specific SMC1 in Drosophila prophase I” Image: Model for Blm helicase in Drosophila meiosis” at the EMBO Meiosis Conference held on the island of Hvar, Croatia. Talia was one of only two graduate students (and a similar number...

Rowan Beck (Praveen Sethupathy and Mirek Styblo labs) published a review article titled, “Arsenic exposure and type 2 diabetes: MicroRNAs as mechanistic links?” in Current Diabetes Reports (DOI: 10.1007/s11892-017-0845-8).    

Congratulations to GMB faculty member Dr Amy Gladfelter (Department of Biology), who has been named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholar. This designation is awarded to early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field. Dr. Gladfelter’s research focuses on how multinucleate cells are organized...

Congratulations to Becky Bigler (Anne Taylor lab), Joy Meserve (Bob Duronio lab), and Danielle Rogers (Jeff Sekelsky lab) on being awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowships from The Graduate School at UNC.

Josh Lawrimore’s (Kerry Bloom lab) interdisciplinary research was described in an article on The Pipettepen titled “Biology and Physics Meet in the Middle.” Image:  Figure from the chromoshake model of the yeast centromere. See Bloom lab website for details.  

Congratulations to Aziz Sancar, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Aziz shares the award with Paul Modrich and Thomas Lindahl for groundbreaking studies of DNA repair mechanisms. Read more on the UNC website.      

More than two dozen GMB students participated in the 9th Annual North Carolina DNA Day by visiting state high schools to talk to students about DNA and science. An article, featuring GMB student Maren Canon (Karen Mohlke lab), was published on the UNC Healthcare website.

The NRSA T32 training grant that supports the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology was renewed by NIGMS. The proposal, submitted in January, 2014, received a priority score of 20 in the June study section. This grant, which has been funded since 1975, will continue to support training activities and...

Seven students were selected to appointment to the T32 training grant, now entering it’s 40th year of NIGMS funding. These students were chosen from 22 highly qualified applicants: Salma Azam, lab of Chad Pecot Mike Conlin, lab of Dale Ramsden Philip Coryell, lab of Jeremy Purvis Julia DiFiore, lab of...

Dr. Bob Duronio, Professor of Biology and Director of the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology from 2003 until 2012, was inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Honor Society, in recognition of his outstanding contributions to graduate education.

The Curriculum in Genetics at UNC was founded in 1963, so we are celebrating our 50th year of training outstanding PhD students.  There will be a reception at the North Carolina Botanical Garden on Thursday, May 16, 4-7 pm.  This is being done in conjunction with the Carolina Biosciences Alumni...