{"id":10805,"date":"2025-03-17T10:24:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/?p=10805"},"modified":"2025-03-17T10:24:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:24:28","slug":"unc-gene-families-celebrate-community-with-2025-chili-cook-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/2025\/03\/unc-gene-families-celebrate-community-with-2025-chili-cook-off\/","title":{"rendered":"UNC GeNe Families Celebrate Community with 2025 Chili Cook-Off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10807 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"GeNe Family Chili Cook-Off 2025\" width=\"413\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-280x210.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-1-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/>UNC Chapel Hill\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>Many students and faculty participated in the event either making chilis or simply tasting and judging them. UNC aprons were awarded to the chefs behind the first and second place chilis.\u00a0 Congratulations to Alejandro Gomez of the Hyejung Won lab and Alec Lobanov of the Charles Perou lab for taking top honors!<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to the GeNe Family leaders who organized this fun (and tasty) event!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10806\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 327px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10806\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"GeNe Family Chili Cook-Off Winners\" width=\"317\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-600x800.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Alejandro Gomez (Right) of the Hyejung Won lab and Alec Lobanov (Left) of the Charles Perou lab<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNC Chapel Hill\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28418,"featured_media":10806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","odd"],"acf":[],"featured_image":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-scaled.jpg","featured_image_medium":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-225x300.jpg","featured_image_medium_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-768x1024.jpg","featured_image_large":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-768x1024.jpg","featured_image_thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1391\/2025\/03\/GeNe-Family-Chili-Cook-Off-Winners-150x150.jpg","featured_image_alt":"GeNe Family Chili Cook-Off Winners","category_details":[{"name":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/category\/news\/"}],"tag_details":[],"_links_to":[],"_links_to_target":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28418"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/gmb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}