Clustered heatmaps displaying STAG1, STAG2, RAD21, and CTCF signal (Z-score normalized) at a union list of STAG1 and STAG2 peaks.

Nicole Arruda聽(Jill Dowen聽lab) published a paper titled 鈥淒istinct and overlapping roles of STAG1 and STAG2 in cohesin localization and gene expression in embryonic stem cells鈥� in聽Epigenetics and Chromatin聽(DOI:10.1186/s13072-020-00353-9). GMB student聽Megan Justice聽is a co-author. Image: Heatmaps of expression changes in聽Stag1聽and聽Stag2 mutant cells and of STAG1 and STAG2 ChIP-seq; see article for details). August 10, 2020 Arruda, …

Liu lab received a NCI R01 grant to investigate novel function of cGAS in modulating breast cancer pathology. This five year grant will enable Liu lab to continue their current journey in investigation roles of innate immunity signaling in cancer.

Congratulations to Jean Marie Mwiza, a graduate research assistant in聽Dr. Bergmeier鈥檚 Lab, for earning a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship for his project, "Determining the Platelet Signaling Pathway(s) Critical in Venous Thrombosis Pathogenesis"!

The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has awarded a five-year, $3.78 million grant to a team of 黑料网 researchers to study to whether experimental tumor and blood tests can accurately detect HPV-linked head and neck cancer, predict if the cancer will respond to treatment, and identify which cancer will recur.

Cathy Anderson, a BCBP graduate student and a member of Rob McGinty's lab, has been awarded an NCI Predoctoral to Postdoctoral Fellow Transition Award.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, The 黑料网 research funding increased by more than $24 million during fiscal year 2020.

Keean Braceros, a graduate student in Mauro Calabrese鈥檚 lab was awarded the Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award (NRSA) Individual Predoctoral Fellowship (Parent F31) on July 17, 2020.

Dr. Oztas will join the faculty in Koc University in September 2020. In his own lab, he will pursue two main research programs: the maintenance of genome stability in plants under DNA-damaging environmental stress and the symbiotic interaction between plants and microbes. During his tenure as a postdoc in Dr. Aziz Sancar鈥檚 lab in the …

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz, PhD, celebrates the hard work of Carolina鈥檚 researchers who have received record-high research funding and shares updates from last week鈥檚 Board of Trustees meeting.

The Department ranks fifth among all Biochemistry departments in the US, (both public and private institutions not just public) in 2019. We received over $18.6 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 2019.

Effective August 1, work windows (shifts) will no longer be required in School of Medicine research labs but 50% occupancy and social distancing must still be observed.

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Jack Griffith, PhD, is co-author of a PNAS paper that shows the role the XPG protein plays in DNA repair in healthy human cells, as well as how different mutations can translate into different diseases and cancer.

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Nicole Arruda in Dowen lab publishes paper in Epigenetics and Chromatin

Liu Lab receives a NCI R01 grant

Jean Marie Mwiza receives a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship

Gaorav Gupta and other researchers receive $3.78 M grant to study tumor mutation and blood tests for HPV-related head and neck cancers

Graduate Student Cathy Anderson Earns National Cancer Institute Award

黑料网 Research Funding Increases $24 million in FY20

Graduate Student Keean Braceros awarded F31

Congratulations to Dr. Onur Oztas on his new position as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Koc University the Molecular Biology & Genetics department

Thanking Carolina鈥檚 researchers: a video message from Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz

We rank 5th nationally in NIH funding in 2019!

Office of Research Releases Revision to Research Guidelines

Enigmatic protein sculpts DNA to repair harmful damage