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

BCB Faculty Member Terry Magnuson, PhD, Sarah Graham Kenan Professor of Genetics and founding chair of the UNC Department of Genetics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been appointed as the Vice Chancellor for Research at UNC. … Continued

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.” … Continued

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 … Continued

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 … Continued