Lauren Parker Huff Successfully Defends her Thesis!
Lauren Parker Huff, a member of Adrienne Cox’s lab, successfully defended her thesis November 4, 2013.
Lauren Parker Huff, a member of Adrienne Cox’s lab, successfully defended her thesis November 4, 2013.
Bryan Richardson, a member of Gary Johnson’s lab, defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. November 6, 2013.
Klaus Hahn (Pharmacology), John Sondek (Pharmacology), Keith Burridge (Cell and Developmental Biology), Alan Hall (Sloan-Kettering Institute), and Gaudenz Danuser (UT Southwestern) have been awarded a 5-year Program Project Grant from the National Institutes of Health to study GEF/Rho GTPase signaling circuitry.
The graduate students hosted the Pharmacology annual Halloween party. There were prizes for best costumes and winners of a variety of games. The prize for the best costume went to 5 members of the Cox lab who dressed up as “the central dogma of biology.”
Congratulations to Pei-Hsuan Chu, a member of Klaus Hahn’s lab, who successfully defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. October 24, 2013.
Dr. Gerald M. Rubin, Vice President of Howard Hughes Medical Institute gives the Luminary Scientist Distinguished Lecture Seminar.
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