Halloween Candy Jar Contest held to benefit the Carolina Cares, Carolina Shares Campaign. Congratulations to Orrin Stone, who won the contest!

“Intestinal Inflammation Targets Cancer-Inducing Activity of the Microbiota.” Arthur et al., Science 338 (6103): 120-123, 2012. doi:10.1038/nsmb.2377.
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The Wang Lab had a paper published in Nature Structural & Molecular Biology September 16, 2012 titled, “Intronic splicing enhancers, cognate splicing factors and context-dependent regulation rules.” Yang Wang, Research Assistant Professor in the Wang lab, is first author on paper. Along with Zefeng Wang, co-authors are Meng Ma, from UNC and Xinshu Xiao at … Read more

Dr. Zefeng Wang, Assistant Professor in Pharmacology, has received a Jefferson Pilot Fellowship in Academic Medicine. Dr. Wang will receive $20,000 to be paid over a four-year period in equal installments of $5,000 per year. The award is to be used at the discretion of the recipient for support of his/her scholarly endeavors. The research … Read more

“Intronic splicing enhancers, cognate splicing factors and context-dependent regulation rules.” Nature Struct Mol Biol., published online doi:10.1038/nsmb.2377.

Nicole Vincent Jordan, a member of the Johnson lab, successfully defended her thesis September 6, 2012. The title of her thesis is “Epigenetic Regulation of Epithelial-Mesenchymal Transition in Epithelial Stem Cells and Triple Negative Breast Cancer.

The Pharmacology department held a goodbye party for Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort, who will be moving on to a new position in the School of Anatomy, Physiology and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia in Crawley, Australia.

Scott Slattery and Janet Doolittle receive awards.

Carolina Summer Fellowship students made their oral presentations of their summer research Tuesday, July 24, 2012.

The paper is of special significance in the field of Genomics & Genetics. John Houser, Elston lab member, is first author on the paper.