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Jamshaid Shahir

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. … Continued

Ellen Risemberg BCB

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 … Continued

JP Flores BCB

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 … Continued

Mike Kelly and Ellen Risemberg BCB

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 … Continued

Nil Aygun and Jolene Ranek BCB

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 … Continued

Mike Kelly BCB

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, … Continued