Yuliya Pylayeva-Gupta, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research focuses on understanding the mechanisms by which tumors co-opt the immune system to facilitate emergence and progression of cancer. I am particularly interested in biology of pancreatic ca … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Gastrointestinal Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Translational Medicine |
Jesse Raab, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Chromatin regulators are among the most frequent mutations in hepatocellular carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma. We are interested in how disruption of normal chromatin regulation gives rise to t … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer, Cancer Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics |
Jeff Sekelsky, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Genome instability is a major cause of cancer. We use the model organism Drosophila melanogaster to study maintenance of genome stability, including DNA double-strand break repair, meiotic and mitotic … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Biology, Genetics |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology |
Tam Sneddon, PhD, FACMG |
| Clinical / Research Focus: As Director of the Clinical Genomic Analysis (GENYSIS) Core (https://www.med.unc.edu/genysis/), I work with clinical researchers to facilitate bioinformatic analysis, variant classification, an … Read more |
| Mentors: | Undergraduate Students, Medical Students, Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Pathology & Lab Medicine |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Clinical Informatics, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine |
Jason Stein, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: We are a lab exploring how variations in the genome change the structure and development of the brain, and in doing so, create risk for neuropsychiatric illness. We study genetic effects on multiple a … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Developmental Biology, Genomics, Neurobiology |
Patrick Sullivan |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I study complex traits using linkage, association, and genetic epidemiological approaches. Disorders include schizophrenia (etiology and pharmacogenetics), smoking behavior, and chronic fatigue.,I st … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics, Genetics, Genomics, Organismal Biology, Pharmacology, Systems Biology |
Lisa M Tarantino, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: The Tarantino lab studies addiction and anxiety-related behaviors in mouse models using forward genetic approaches. We are currently studying a chemically-induced mutation in a splice donor site that … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychiatry |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavior, Genetics, Genomics, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, Systems Biology |
Jenny Ting, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Topics include gene discovery, genomics/proteomics, gene transcription, signal transduction, molecular immunology. Disease relevant issues include infectious diseases, autoimmune and demyelinating di … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Institute for Global Health & Infectious Disease, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bacteriology, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Genetics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Neurobiology |
Ageliki Tsagaratou, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our lab is interested in epigenetic and transcriptional regulation of conventional and unconventional T cell development, differentiation and function. Our research aims to decipher how aberrations in … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center, Microbiology & Immunology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Developmental Biology, Epigenetics and Chromatin Biology, Genetics, Genomics, Immunology, Molecular Biology, Molecular Medicine, Systems Biology |
William Valdar, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: I run a statistical genetics laboratory interested the relationship between genes and complex disease. I have a particular focus on the use of genetically diverse experimental model organism po … Read more |
| Mentors: | Graduate Students |
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AFFILIATIONS: Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Biostatistics, Computational Medicine Program, Genetics, Lineberger Cancer Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioinformatics |
Cyrus Vaziri, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: Our broad long-term goal is to understand how mammalian cells maintain ordered control of DNA replication during normal passage through an unperturbed cell cycle, and in response to genotoxins (DNA-da … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Genetics, Pathology & Lab Medicine, Toxicology |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Cancer Biology, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Molecular Biology, Toxicology |
Ellen R. Weiss, PhD |
| Clinical / Research Focus: My research involves understanding the regulation of visual signaling pathways in the vertebrate retina using mice and zebrafish as model organisms. In the past 20 years we have discovered what was a … Read more |
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AFFILIATIONS: Cell Biology & Physiology, Genetics, Neuroscience Center |
CLINICAL/RESEARCH INTERESTS: Biochemistry, Cell Biology, Cell Signaling, Metabolism, Neurobiology, Physiology, Systems Biology |






