Congratulations to Jeanne-Marie McPherson (Bob Duronio and Dan McKay labs), who was awarded an NRSA F31 predoctoral fellowship from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes of Health. Jeanne-Marie’s project is titled “Interrogating the roles of canonical versus variant histone … Read more

Emma Hinkle (Jimena Giudice lab) published an article titled “Stretching muscle cells induces transcriptional and splicing transitions and changes in SR proteins” in Communications Biology (DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03915-7). Image: Cartoon of how mechanosensitive targets might play a role in the MAPK …

Sarah Brotman (Karen Mohlke lab) and Hannah Wiedner (Jimena Giudice lab) were selected as winners of the Terry Magnuson Dissertation Award. This award, named in honor of the founding chair of the Department of Genetics at UNC, is given to … Read more