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 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

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 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

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

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

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 (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

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 (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