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

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

Congratulations to BCB Student Chanin Tolson Woods in the Alain Laederach Lab who’s poster (and oral presentation) won the BioVis@ISMB 2016 Best Poster Award sponsored by F1000 for her poster on “Visual exploration of the functional consequence of structure and structure change in … Read more

UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Rachel Haggerty has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Fellowship from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study “Single-cell dynamics of the OCT4-GATA6 axis in human lung progenitors”. Haggerty works in … Read more

The UNC Chapel Hill Bioinformatics and Computational Curriculum 2016 Retreat hosted in conjunction with UNC’s Department of Genetics and Genetics and Molecular Biology curriculum was held August 26-28, 2016 in Asheville, NC. During this weekend event, multiple scientific talks were … Read more