Author Archives: Jonathon Cornett
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Meredith Corley’s paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences.
Congratulations to Meredith Corley (Laederach Lab) for her recent publication in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences. Her work titled “An RNA structure-mediated, posttranscriptional model of human α-1-antitrypsin expression,” reveals a novel regulatory program in the 5’ Untranslated … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Chanin Tolson Woods paper published in Biophysical Journal.
Congratulations to Chanin Tolson and Benfeard Williams (Alain Laederach and Nikolay Dohlokyan labs) who along with their other co-authors recently published in the Biophysical Journal. Their paper, titled “Comparative Visualization of the RNA Suboptimal Conformational Ensemble In Vivo,” describes a … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Students Dan Oreper and Yanwei Cai are joint first authors on paper published in G3 Journal.
Congratulations to Dan Oreper and Yanwei Cai (Valdar Lab) for their recent paper in G3 Journal titled “Inbred Strain Variant Database (ISVdb): A repository for probabilistically informed sequence differences among the Collaborative Cross strains and their founders.” The manuscript describes the … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology MD/PhD Student Receives F30 Predoctoral Fellowship from National Cancer Institute
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology MD/PhD Graduate Student Sherry Chao has been awarded an F30 predoctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to work on “Defining the quantitative relationship between DNA damage and cell cycle dynamics in CUL9-deficient cells.” Sherry … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Tim Jacobs Receives 2017 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering
Congratulations to recent BCB graduate Tim Jacobs from the lab of Brian Kuhlman! Tim has been selected to receive the 2017 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering from the University of North Carolina … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Chanin Tolson Woods paper published in Bioinformatics.
Congratulations to Chanin Tolson Woods (Laederach Lab) for her recent paper in Bioinformatics titled “Classification of RNA structure change by “gazing” at experimental data.” In this paper Chanin used a series of machine learning techniques to identify novel features that expert … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Meredith Corley’s paper published in Elife.
Congratulations to BCB Graduate Student Meredith Corley (Alain Laederach Lab) for her paper in Elife titled “Selecting against accidental RNA interactions.” In the manuscript she discusses a novel concept for bacterial mRNAs, specifically that they evolve sequences to avoid accidental … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Katrina Kutchko paper published in WIRE’s RNA.
Congratulations to BCB Student Katrina Kutchko in the Alain Laederach Lab who’s paper titled “Transcending the prediction paradigm: novel applications of SHAPE to RNA function and evolution” was recently published in WIRE’s RNA. In this work Katrina describes novel applications of … Read more