Category: Student & Postdoc News

The Bryan Roth lab got some nice press for their recent Nature paper, revealing structural details of his chemogenetic technology called DREADD – designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs - that recognize drug-like but physiologically inert compounds. Postdoc Shicheng Zhang, PhD, led this research published in Nature.

Dr. Fennell defended her thesis, “Profiling the Multi-omic Response to Mitochondrial Protease ClpP Activation in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells,” November 22!

Congrats to our second year students on passing their qualification exams!

Our grad students visited Spring Hill Goat Farm for some fall fun carving pumpkins with baby goats!

Dr. Cummins successfully defended his PhD, "Design of hyper-stable proteins completely from scratch that efficaciously inhibit oncogenic G proteins."

Congratulations to all our Carolina Summer Fellowship Program Students on completing their Summer Research! Looks like everyone had a good time!

Kudos to our CSF students who gave their oral and poster research presentations July 25th and 26th. You all gave awesome presentations!

Dr. Aponte-Collazo successfully defended his PhD, "Exploring the role of mitochondrial protease ClpP in apoptosis regulation of triple negative breast cancer cells," July 27.

Dr. Woodburn successfully defended his PhD, "Characterizing HIV-1 Infection of the Central Nervous System" on May 18.

Congratulations to David Lee, graduate student in the lab of Greg Scherrer, who received one of two 2022 Eshelman Institute Rankin Innovator Acceleration Awards!