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UNC Chapel Hill’s GeNe Families group, which consists of graduate students in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and the Department of Genetics, celebrated community with a 2025 Chili Cook-Off on Tuesday, … Read more

BCB Student JP Flores named Emerging Public Policy Leader by the American Institute of Biological Sciences

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student JP Flores in the lab of Doug Phanstiel has been named 2025 Emerging Public Policy Leader by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. AIBS Names 2025 Emerging Public Policy Leader The American Institute of … Read more

Congratulations to BCB Fall 2024 DeLill Nasser Awardee Ellen Risemberg!

Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce that UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Ellen Risemberg (William Valdar & Martin Ferris Labs) is a recipient of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Fall 2024! Given … Read more

UNC-Chapel Hill researchers develop revolutionary heart model: A breakthrough with potential to transform cardiac care and research

A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill (including recent Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate Marshall Davey and BCB faculty member Boyce Griffith) have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform … Read more

BCB Graduate Student Amjad Dabi publishes paper in Genetics

BCB Graduate Student Amjad Dabi (Dan Schrider Lab) publishes paper in Genetics. Simulation has become a cornerstone of population genetic research. However, simulating large populations is extremely computationally demanding. To circumvent this problem, researchers commonly use a simple approximation to … Read more

BCB Graduate Student Ronald Futila Kyong-shin (Parr Lab / IDEEL) was awarded a prize for best poster at the Genomic Epidemiology Conference of Malaria (GEM) conference at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England.

BCB Graduate Student Ronald Futila Kyong-shin (Parr Lab / IDEEL) was awarded a prize for best poster at the Genomic Epidemiology Conference of Malaria (GEM) conference at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England. Ronald’s research centers on the population … Read more

Ellen Risemberg Receives BCB’s 2024 Terry Magnuson Award

Congratulations to UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate student Ellen Risemberg for receiving the 2024 Terry Magnuson Award! The Terry Magnuson Award is presented each year at the BCB/GMB/Genetics Scientific Retreat. The 2024 Retreat was held in Myrtle Beach, SC … Read more

Department of Genetics Scientific Retreat – Fall 2024

The Department of Genetics, the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) and the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) held a scientific retreat on September 29-October 1, 2024, at Myrtle Beach, SC. More than 210 faculty, postdocs, students … Read more