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 …
Winners of awards at the Genetics Retreat were: Best Talk: Alex Stutzman (Jill Dowen and Dan McKay labs) Best Talk: Rachel DuMez (Rob Dowen lab) Best Poster: Sonja Mikhailovic (Jeremy Purvis and Adriana Beltran labs) 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
Alex Stutzman and Rachel DuMez win Best Talk; Sonia Mikhailovic Best Poster at Genetics Retreat
September 22, 2022
Sarah Brotman and Hannah Wiedner win Terry Magnuson Dissertation Award
September 21, 2022
