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Three GMB students receive Dissertation Completion Fellowships

April 23, 2016
Congratulations to Becky Bigler (Anne Taylor lab), Joy Meserve (Bob Duronio lab), and Danielle Rogers (Jeff Sekelsky lab) on being awarded Dissertation Completion Fellowships from The Graduate School at ºÚÁÏÍø.

Lauren Waldron Wasson publishes paper in Developmental Cell

March 3, 2016
Lauren Waldron Wasson (Frank Conlon lab) published an article titled “The cardiac TBX5 interactome reveals a chromatin remodeling network essential for cardiac septation” in Developmental Cell 36: 262-275. Image: Low-magnification transverse section of a developing Xenopus heart; see article for complete figure and details.   Please see our page on...

Josh Lawrimore’s research featured in The Pipettepen

March 3, 2016
Josh Lawrimore’s (Kerry Bloom lab) interdisciplinary research was described in an article on The Pipettepen titled “Biology and Physics Meet in the Middle.” Image:  Figure from the chromoshake model of the yeast centromere. See Bloom lab website for details.  

Tiki Hayes publishes paper in Cancer Cell

February 3, 2016
Tiki Hayes (Channing Der lab) published an article titled “Long-term ERK inhibition in KRAS-mutant pancreatic cancer is associated with MYC degradation and senescence-like growth suppression” in Cancer Cell 29: 75-89. Image: Treated PANC253 tumors; see article for details.   Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Dan Serber publishes paper in Biology of Reproduction

January 10, 2016
Dan Serber (Terry Magnuson lab) published an article titled “The mouse INO80 chromatin remodeling complex is an essential meiotic factor for spermatogenesis” in Biology of Reproduction (epub ahead of print). Image: unrepaired DNA breaks in Ino80cKO spermatocytes; see article for details.   Please see our page on Publications by GMB...

Christian Parobek publishes paper in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

January 10, 2016
Christian Parobek (Jonathon Juliano lab) published an article titled “Next-Generation sequencing and comparative analysis of sequential outbreaks caused by multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii at a large academic burn center” in Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (online ahead of print). Image: Reconstruction of transmission chains for multi-drug resistant Acinetobacter baumannii outbreak isolates. See...

Tamara Roman publishes paper in American Journal of Human Genetics

December 11, 2015
Tamara Roman (Karen Mohlke lab) published an article titled “Multiple hepatic regulatory variants at the GALNT2 GWAS locus associated with high-density lipoprotein cholesterol” in American Journal of Human Genetics 97: 801-15. Image: Transcription factor CEBPB binds differentially to the alleles of regulatory variant rs4846913; see article for details.   Please...

Erin Borchardt publishes paper in RNA

December 2, 2015
Erin Borchardt (Aravind Asokan lab) published an article titled “Controlling mRNA stability and translation with the CRISPR endoribonuclease Csy4” in RNA 21: 1921-30. Image: effects of wild-type (top) and mutant (bottom) Csy4 on gene expression; see article for details.   Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for...

Marni Siegel publishes paper in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics

December 2, 2015
 Marni Siegel (Carey Anders and Chuck Perou labs) published an article titled “Efficacy of carboplatin alone and in combination with ABT888 in intracranial murine models of BRCA-mutated and BRCA-wild-type triple-negative breast cancer” in Molecular Cancer Therapeutics 14: 920-30. (Image: expression patterns of tumors treated within the BRCA-mutant models; see article...

Tiki Hayes wins Graduate Fellow Award

December 2, 2015
Congratulations to Tiki Hayes (Channing Der lab), who won the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Sciences.  

Kate Coleman wins Graduate Fellow Award

December 2, 2015
Congratulations to Kate Coleman (Jean Cook lab), who won the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Graduate Fellow Award in Basic Sciences.  

Aziz Sancar wins Nobel Prize

October 7, 2015
Congratulations to Aziz Sancar, winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Aziz shares the award with Paul Modrich and Thomas Lindahl for groundbreaking studies of DNA repair mechanisms. Read more on the ºÚÁÏÍø website.