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UNC BCB and GMB Graduate Students Baran, Flores, McAfee, and Szymanski Volunteer as UNC Ambassadors in the Shadow a Scientist program

On November 29, UNC graduate students Kerstin Baran (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Kathleen Caron lab), JP Flores (Bioinformatics and Computational Biology in the Doug Phanstiel Lab), Jessica McAfee (Genetics and Molecular Biology in the Hyejung Won lab), and … Read more

Congratulations to BCB Graduate Student Sarah Parker who is a Finalist in the UNC Three Minute Thesis Competition

Sarah Parker, a doctoral student in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (Doug Phanstiel lab), is a finalist in the UNC Graduate School’s Three Minute Thesis competition. This achievement reflects her ability to present her research in an accessible and compelling way. The … Read more

How to Heal a Broken Heart – PhD candidate Jamshaid Shahir is Advancing Stem Cell Research

PhD candidate Jamshaid Shahir shares about his research on how to heal a broken heart, a path that is positioning him for a role in the sciences at the frontier of his discipline and for a career in computational biology. … Read more

Ellen Risemberg (BCB) selected top ten for Three Minute Thesis

Congratulation to Ellen Risemberg, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the labs of Will Valdar and Marty Ferris, UNC Department of Genetics, who were both selected in the top ten for Three Minute Thesis! A panel of judges selected … Read more

John Flores Receives Top Poster Award at 2022 Scientific Retreat

Congratulations to John Flores, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the lab of Doug Phanstiel, for taking outstanding poster award at the 2022 Scientific Retreat! The Department of Genetics, the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) and the … Read more

Mike Kelly and Ellen Risemberg Receive Top Talk Awards at 2022 Scientific Retreat

Congratulations to Mike Kelly, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the labs of Hector Franco and Joel Parker, and Ellen Risemberg, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the labs of Will Valdar and Marty Ferris for taking outstanding … Read more

Nil Aygun and Jolene Ranek Receive Terry Magnuson Award for Outstanding Graduate Students at 2022 Scientific Retreat

Congratulations to Nil Aygun, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the lab of Jason Stein, and Jolene Ranek, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student in the labs of Jeremy Purvis and Natalie Stanley, for taking the Terry Magnuson Award … Read more

BCB Graduate Student Mike Kelly Published in Nature Communications

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate student Mike Kelly, in the labs of Hector Franco and Joel Parker, publishes A multi-omic dissection of super-enhancer driven oncogenic gene expression programs in ovarian cancer in Nature Communications. Abstract The human genome contains regulatory elements, … Read more