March 18, 2024
The Triangle Brain Bee聽serves high school students of North Carolina and aims to promote awareness about collegiate and career pathways in neuroscience as well as incite excitement surrounding neuroscience and STEM fields. Post-docs and graduate students offer three community engagement opportunities for high school students: (i) virtual, weekly neuroscience tutoring sessions, (ii) an interactive neuroanatomy …
March 14, 2024
Carolyn Suitt, lab manager for the Center for Gastrointestinal Biology and Disease (CGIBD) Histology Core, passed away Thursday February 22, 2024. Born December 2, 1964, in Franklin County, NC Carolyn moved to Chapel Hill and attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with a B.S. in Chemistry in 1997 while juggling working …
March 8, 2024
In this new Vital Signs series, we feature graduate student Max Hockenberry, who performs research in the labs of Wes Legant, PhD, and Jim Bear, PhD. Hockenberry is developing new microscopy methods so researchers can measure the mechanisms cells use to maneuver through tight spaces in the body. Continue reading here.
February 16, 2024
In an effort five years in the making, 黑料网 cell biologist Sarah Cohen, PhD, and Rockefeller University鈥檚 Ian Windham, PhD, describe the interplay between fats and proteins in brain cells and how their dysfunction contributes to the development of late-onset Alzheimer鈥檚 disease.聽 Continue reading here
January 29, 2024
Andrew Scott Kennedy Jr. is a 4th year PhD Candidate in the lab of聽Jessica Thaxton, PhD, associate professor of cell biology and physiology and member of聽黑料网 Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. In the lab, Kennedy Jr. uses super-resolution microscopy techniques to visualize and better understand how CAR-T cells, a specialized type of immunotherapy, battle solid cancers …
December 15, 2023
Heather McCauley received a 3-year award from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. She will use iPSC-derived human intestinal organoids to study the gastrointestinal manifestations of CF. They hypothesized that altered mucus composition and abnormal epithelial cell biology both contribute to impaired nutrient absorption that occurs in people with CF. They plan to establish our organoid system …
December 15, 2023
Extra Mile Award for CBP Graduate Student: Casandra Phillips (Natasha Snider Lab) Extra Mile Award for Postdoctoral Fellow: Jessica Cote (Jimena Giudice Lab) and Zachary Drum (Doug Phanstiel Lab) Staff Excellence Award: Hongyu Ren (Doug Cyr Lab) and Curtis Connor & Carl Parson (Histology Research Core) CBP Service Award: Crystal Headen CBP Faculty Mentoring Award: …
November 6, 2023
Pierre-Emmanuel N’Guetta’s beautiful kidney image was selected for the cover of the October 2023 Nephrology Dialysis Transplation Journal.
October 6, 2023
Dr. Katie Baldwin, Assistant Prof. in CBP and the Neuroscience Center for receiving the highly prestigious NIH Director鈥檚 New Innovator Award!聽 This program, supported through the NIH Common Fund, recognizes and supports the country鈥檚 most creative and cutting-edge science.聽 Click here for more details.
October 4, 2023
Visualizing Axon Pruning During development, neurons trim hundreds of excess axons in an intricately coordinated destructive process.聽 Continue reading here.
