Congratulations to Chanin Tolson and Benfeard Williams (Alain Laederach and Nikolay Dohlokyan labs) who along with their other co-authors recently published in the Biophysical Journal. Their paper, titled “Comparative Visualization of the RNA Suboptimal Conformational Ensemble In Vivo,” describes a … Continued

Congratulations to Dan Oreper and Yanwei Cai (Valdar Lab) for their recent paper in G3 Journal titled “Inbred Strain Variant Database (ISVdb): A repository for probabilistically informed sequence differences among the Collaborative Cross strains and their founders.” The manuscript describes the … Continued

UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology MD/PhD Graduate Student Sherry Chao has been awarded an F30 predoctoral fellowship from the National Cancer Institute to work on “Defining the quantitative relationship between DNA damage and cell cycle dynamics in CUL9-deficient cells.” Sherry … Continued

Congratulations to recent BCB graduate Tim Jacobs from the lab of Brian Kuhlman! Tim has been selected to receive the 2017 Dean’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in the area of Mathematics, Physical Sciences & Engineering from the University of North Carolina … Continued

Congratulations to Chanin Tolson Woods (Laederach Lab) for her recent paper in Bioinformatics titled “Classification of RNA structure change by “gazing” at experimental data.” In this paper Chanin used a series of machine learning techniques to identify novel features that expert … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued