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Ellysa Vogt (GMB Graduate Student) Receives Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program Award from Burroughs Wellcome Fund

November 8, 2021
Ellysa Vogt is a graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum and a member of the Amy Gladfelter laboratory, where she studies the structural and functional plasticity of the septin cytoskeleton in an extremophile black yeast.

Highlighted Faculty: Hyejung Won, PhD, Assistant Professor

November 1, 2021
Dr. Hyejung Won was recruited to the Department of Genetics and the Neuroscience Center at 黑料网 Chapel Hill in 2018. Her up-and-coming research program integrates innovative genomic approaches with basic neurobiology to develop a systematic understanding of psychiatric and neurodevelopmental disorders. Dr. Won鈥檚 scientific career began at KAIST in Daejeon,...

Department of Genetics Publications October 17th 鈥 30th, 2021

November 1, 2021
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 14 papers during October 17th 鈥 30th 2021.

Marta Cruz Cisneros (GMB Graduate Student) Receives Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program Award from Burroughs Wellcome Fund

October 28, 2021
Marta Cruz Cisneros is a graduate student in the Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) curriculum and member of the Mark Heise and Marty Ferris laboratories where she studies how host genetic variation influences antibody response to adjuvanted influenza vaccination.

Jamshaid Shahir (BCB Graduate Student) Receives Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program Award from Burroughs Wellcome Fund

October 25, 2021
Jamshaid Shahir is a graduate student in the Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) curriculum and member of the Jeremy Purvis laboratory, where he studies the dynamics of cell cycle progression under oncogenic KRAS mutations using experimental data and computational modeling.

Beltran awarded a Faculty Research Support Grant from the Department of Genetics

October 25, 2021
Adriana Beltran, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics and Director of the Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Core, was awarded a Faculty Research Support Grant, formerly known as a PIVOT award, for $20,000 from the Department of Genetics, which was evenly matched by both the School of Medicine Office of Research, and...

黑料网 Genetics State Service Awards 2020-2021

October 22, 2021
The Department of Genetics is proud to announce the following employees both faculty and staff with their State Service Awards.聽

Department of Genetics Publications October 3rd 鈥 16th 2021

October 18, 2021
Department of Genetics faculty, postdocs, students and collaborators published 11 papers during October 3rd 鈥 16th 2021.

Katie Hoadley, PhD Awarded New Grant as Part of Susan G. Komen Metastatic Breast Cancer Collaborative Research Initiative

October 14, 2021
Thanks to a $500,000 lead gift by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (Blue Cross NC), the Susan G. Komen and Blue Cross NC Metastatic Breast Cancer Disparities Collaborative Research Grant was awarded to a research team led by Jennifer Freedman, PhD, and Steven Patierno, PhD, of Duke...

Koller award R21 from NIAID

October 14, 2021
Bev Koller, PhD, Associate Professor of Genetics, was awarded a new R21 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) titled 鈥淢ouse models for study of the NLRP1 and CARD8 inflammasomes鈥.