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

Congratulations to UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Faculty Member Henrik Dohlman who has been named Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, effective Oct. 1. Dohlman takes over a department that has an international reputation for research excellence, currently 4th in the nation in … Continued

UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology MD/PhD Graduate Student Robert Corty has been awarded an F30 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute for Mental Health to work on “Statistical modeling of genetic effects on behavior and its variability”. Corty works in … Continued

Congratulations to UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Faculty Member Fernando Pardo-Manuel de Villena, PhD, who has been named Interim Chair of the Department of Genetics as of July 1, taking over from BCB Faculty Member Terry Magnuson, PhD, who became the … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued