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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.      

Claire Trincot awarded American Heart Association fellowship

October 2, 2015
Congratulations to Claire Trincot (Kathleen Caron lab), who was awarded a grant from the American Heart Association.  Her project is titled “Cardioprotective effects of adrenomedullin in a model of myocardial infarction.” Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Mira Pronobis publishes paper in eLife

October 2, 2015
Mira Pronobis (Mark Peifer lab) published an article titled “A novel GSK3-regulated APC:Axin interaction regulates Wnt signaling by driving a catalytic cycle of efficient β-catenin destruction” in eLife doi: 10.7554/eLife.08022. (Image: Superesolution microscopy (SIM) showing macromolecular complex between axin (magenta) and APC2 (green); see article for details.)   Please see...

Taylor Penke awarded F31 fellowship

August 20, 2015
Taylor Penke (Bob Duronio lab) was awarded an F31 fellowship from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences. The title of his project is “Investigating the role of histone modifications in heterochromatin formation“. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Catherine Fahey awarded F30 fellowship

August 20, 2015
Catherine Fahey (Kim Rathmell lab) was awarded an F30 fellowship from the National Cancer Institute. The title of her project is “The effect of cancer-associated SETD2 mutations on transcription and chromatin organization“. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.

Joy Meserve publishes paper in Development

August 20, 2015
Joy Meserve (Bob Duronio lab) published an article titled “Scalloped and Yorkie are required for cell cycle re-entry of quiescent cells after tissue damage.” in Development 142: :2740-2751 (Image: Compensatory proliferation after induced cell death in the eye; see article for details.) Please see our page on Publications by GMB...

Christian Parobek awarded F30 fellowship

July 29, 2015
Christian Parobek (Jon Juliano lab) was awarded an F30 fellowship from the National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases. The title of his project is “Investigating the targets and strain specificity of antibodies against P. vivax”. Please also see our page on Grants to GMB Students.