UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student selected to receive a 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Jessime Kirk been selected to receive a 2016 National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) Fellowship. Kirk’s selection was based on his demonstrated potential to contribute to strengthening the vitality of … Read more
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Receives Pre Doctoral Fellowship in Informatics from the PhRMA Foundation
UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Daniel Oreper has been awarded a competitive two year Pre Doctoral Fellowship in Informatics from the PhRMA (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) Foundation. Oreper works in the lab of William Valdar in … Read more
Addressing bias in small RNA library preparation for sequencing: a new protocol recovers microRNAs that evade capture by current methods
Jeanette Baran-Gale, a graduate student in Praveen Sethupathy’s lab, is first author on a paper published in Frontiers in Genetics: RNA last week titled, “Addressing bias in small RNA library preparation for sequencing: a new protocol recovers microRNAs that evade capture by current methods.” … Read more
Sara Selitsky Publishes Paper in BMC Bioinformatics on tDRmapper
Sara Selitsky is first author on a paper published Nov. 4 in BMC Bioinformatics titled “tDRmapper: challenges and solutions to mapping, naming, and quantifying tRNA-derived RNAs from human small RNA-sequencing data.” Sara is a member of Praveen Sethupathy’s lab. The paper … Read more
Innovations in Biological Computations Symposium Held
The Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and the Department of Pharmacology held their bi-annual Innovations in Biological Computations Symposium October 27, 2015 from 1:00 to 5:00 pm in the Bioinformatics auditorium. The symposium was well attended, with the auditorium … Read more
Katrina Kutchko Publishes Paper in RNA
Congratulations to Katrina Kutchko (Laederach Lab) who co-first authored a paper in RNA titled “Multiple conformations are a conserved and regulatory feature of the RB1 5′ UTR,” where they identified a novel set of RNA structures that affect RB1 expression in patients presenting with … Read more
Chanin Tolson and Meredity Corley Win Poster Awards
Congratulations to Chanin Tolson and Meredith Corley (Laederach Lab) who’s posters titled “Autonomous Classification of RNA Structure Change” and “Detecting riboSNitches with RNA folding algorithms: a genome-wide benchmar” both won awards for computational innovation in RNA at the Annual meeting … Read more
John Mellnik receives GEAB Impact Award from UNC
John Mellnik (graduate student, Forest Lab) received a 2015 UNC Graduate Education Advancement Board (GEAB) Impact Award at an April 9 ceremony honoring the recipients. John received the award for his research to create more effective inhalers for patients with … Read more
Mammals are Genetically More Similar to Their Fathers
You might resemble or act more like your mother, but a novel research study from Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, Professor in the UNC Department of Genetics, and BCB faculty member, reveals that mammals are genetically more like their dads. Specifically, … Read more
Meredith Corley publishes paper in Nucleic Acids Research
Meredith Corley (graduate student, Laederach Lab) is first author on a paper published last week in Nucleic Acids Research that was titled: “Detecting riboSNitches with RNA folding algorithms: a genome-wide benchmark”. In the paper, Meredith and collaborators evaluate 11 different … Read more