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All Spring 2020 黑料网 Genetics and Molecular Biology Curriculum courses will be held online effective Monday, March 23, 2020. Contact your course instructor or teaching assistant immediately if you do not have access or have questions. Contact Curriculum Director Jeff Sekelsky or Student Services Manager John Cornett if you should...

A new module titled CRISPR-Based Genome Engineering (GNET 760) will be offered starting in Spring 2020. The module is being taught by Hector Franco, Assistant Professor of Genetics. It will include visits by a number of 黑料网 experts in various CRISPR-based technologies. The course will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays from...

Pedro Pozo (Jean Cook lab) published an聽 review article titled, “Cdt1 variants reveal unanticipated aspects of interactions with Cyclin/CDK and MCM important for normal genome replication” in Molcular Biology of the Cell (DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E18-04-0242).聽 Image: Flow cytometry profiles of cells with Ctd1 mutations; see paper for details.   Please see...

Rowan Beck (Praveen Sethupathy and Mirek Styblo labs) published an article titled, “Circulating miRNAs Associated with Arsenic Exposure” in Environmental Science and Technology (DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.8b06457).聽 Image: Outline of experimental strategy. See paper for details.   Please see our page on Publications by GMB Students for more.

Talia Hatkevich (Jeff Sekelsky lab) gave a talk titled聽鈥淎 novel function for centromere-specific SMC1 in Drosophila prophase I鈥� Image: Model for Blm helicase in Drosophila meiosis” at the EMBO Meiosis Conference held on the island of Hvar, Croatia. Talia was one of only two graduate students (and a similar number...

Rowan Beck (Praveen Sethupathy and Mirek Styblo labs) published a review article titled, “Arsenic exposure and type 2 diabetes: MicroRNAs as mechanistic links?” in Current Diabetes Reports (DOI: 10.1007/s11892-017-0845-8).    

Congratulations to GMB faculty member Dr Amy Gladfelter (Department of Biology), who has been named a聽Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Faculty Scholar. This designation is awarded to early-career scientists who have great potential to make unique contributions to their field. Dr. Gladfelter’s research focuses on how multinucleate cells are organized...

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 黑料网.

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

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 黑料网 website.      

More than two dozen GMB students participated in the 9th Annual North Carolina DNA Day by visiting state high schools to talk to students about DNA and science. An article, featuring GMB student Maren Canon (Karen Mohlke lab), was published on the 黑料网 Healthcare website.

The NRSA T32 training grant that supports the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology was renewed by NIGMS. The proposal, submitted in January, 2014, received a priority score of 20 in the June study section. This grant, which has been funded since 1975, will continue to support training activities and...