Dan Urban, a member of the Bryan Roth Lab, successfully defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. on October 21, 2013!

Pharmacology held an Innovations in Biological Computation Symposium October 16, 2013. Co-sponsored by the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.

The September 2013 issue of UNC Medical Builletin highlights Zefeng Wang’s paper about gene splicing, introns and splicing repression in the January 2013 issue of Nature Structural and Molecular Biology, “A complex network of factors with overlapping affinities represses splicing through intronic elements.”

Dr. Mike Emanuele, recipient of V Foundation for Cancer Research Award Dr. Mike Emanuele has received a V Scholar Award from the V Foundation for Cancer Research. The title of Mike’s research proposal is “Identification of ubiquitin signaling networks as novel avenues for therapeutic intervention.” Mike’s award is for $200,000 over 2 years. Our congratulations … Read more

Deborah Granger, a research specialist in the Johnson Lab, receives her 15-year Service Award on September 17. Pictured with Debbie in the photo above are Patty Holloway and Dr. Gary Johnson. Debbie received her BA in German/English from Georgia State University (1989). After living and working in Vienna, Austria for five years, she returned to … Read more

Dr. Yan Fu (Alan Jones and Tim Elston’s Labs) and Dr. Mathew Pena (Tim Elston and Beverly Errede’s labs) received 1st and 2nd place poster awards at the 2013 International Conference on Computational Cell Biology, held Aug 14-16. Congratulations to both!

Dr. Juan Song, Ph.D. and Dr. Mauro Calabrese, Ph.D. have joined the Pharmacology Department as Assistant Professors. Dr. Song will begin in September, 2013 and Dr. Calabrese will join us starting in March, 2014. Meet Dr. Song and Dr. Calabrese A few words from Dr.Juan Song to introduce herself: I’ll be starting as an Assistant … Read more

Marty Whittle, a member of the Johnson Lab, successfully defended his dissertation to receive his Ph.D. August 12, 2013. The title of his dissertaion is “Targeting the Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Kinome with Chemical Proteomics.” Our congratulations to Marty! Marty will be moving to Seattle, Washington to be Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, … Read more

  Ken McCarthy and Angelique Whitehurst at her goodbye luncheon The department said farewell to Angelique Whitehurst and her Lab with a luncheon August 1, 2013. Angelique and her entire lab are moving to UT Southwestern to pursue their research careers there. Angelique joined the Pharmacology department in 2009. Her research has been in the … Read more

  Dr. Ross Dubose with mentor, Dr. Rob Nicholas Ross Dubose, a member of Rob Nicholas’ lab, successfully defended his thesis on Monday, July 29, 2013 and received his Ph.D. The title of his thesis is “Title: “P2Y Receptor Trafficking in Polarized Epithelial Cells.” Our congratulations to Ross! Ross’ family attended his defense and celebration … Read more