UNC Chapel Hill’s GeNe Families group, which consists of graduate students in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and the Department of Genetics, celebrated community with a 2025 Chili Cook-Off on Tuesday, … Read more
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student JP Flores in the lab of Doug Phanstiel has been named 2025 Emerging Public Policy Leader by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. AIBS Names 2025 Emerging Public Policy Leader The American Institute of … Read more
Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce that UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Ellen Risemberg (William Valdar & Martin Ferris Labs) is a recipient of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Fall 2024! Given … Read more
A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill (including recent Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate Marshall Davey and BCB faculty member Boyce Griffith) have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform … Read more
BCB Graduate Student Amjad Dabi (Dan Schrider Lab) publishes paper in Genetics. Simulation has become a cornerstone of population genetic research. However, simulating large populations is extremely computationally demanding. To circumvent this problem, researchers commonly use a simple approximation to … Read more
BCB Graduate Student Ronald Futila Kyong-shin (Parr Lab / IDEEL) was awarded a prize for best poster at the Genomic Epidemiology Conference of Malaria (GEM) conference at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England. Ronald’s research centers on the population … Read more
Congratulations to UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate student Ellen Risemberg for receiving the 2024 Terry Magnuson Award! The Terry Magnuson Award is presented each year at the BCB/GMB/Genetics Scientific Retreat. The 2024 Retreat was held in Myrtle Beach, SC … Read more
The Department of Genetics, the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology (GMB) and the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB) held a scientific retreat on September 29-October 1, 2024, at Myrtle Beach, SC. More than 210 faculty, postdocs, students … Read more
Ellen Risemberg (William Valdar and Martin Ferris Labs) published an article titled “Sarbecovirus disease susceptibility is conserved across viral and host models” in Virus Research. The results reported here provide the first conclusive evidence that susceptibility to coronavirus disease is conserved … Read more
Ellen Risemberg (William Valdar and Martin Ferris Labs) published an article titled “A mutation in Themis contributes to anaphylaxis severity following oral peanut challenge in CC027 mice” in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. This study aimed to determine the genetic basis of … Read more
