
April 2018
Seminar: “A Molecular Arms Race: HIV versus the immune system”
Pamela Björkman, Ph.D., California Institute of Technology
Find out more »Seminar: “Theory and Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: Overcoming the Multiscale Challenge”
Gregory Voth, PhD, University of Chicago
Find out more »Seminar: “Characterizing the Bioactivities of Thiopeptides: Potential Host-Directed Therapeutics”
Anti-Infective Group- Kelly Bird from the Bowers Lab
Find out more »Seminar: “Building a spindle and segregating chromosomes without centrosomes: Oocyte meiosis in C. elegans”
Sadie Wignall, PhD, Assistant Professor of Molecular Biosciences, North Western University
Find out more »Pharmaceutical Sciences Open House
A career in pharmaceutical sciences is sometimes overlooked by students interested in applied biological science, and it is our goal to shed some light on this career path and the opportunities available at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy and beyond. The 2nd Annual Open House will be from 1:00-6:00pm in the Bioinformatics Building Room 1131 on UNC’s Campus on April 13. This year, the program will consist of an opening by Dr. Morris Clarke (a former faculty member at Winston…
Find out more »Seminar: “Interferon-stimulated genes in antiviral immunity”
John Schoggins, PhD, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Find out more »Seminar: “Proteomics and Precision Medicine”
Jun Qin, PhD, Baylor, College of Medicine
Find out more »Seminar: “Neural and Non-Neural Network in Hippocampal Plasticity”
Shaoyu Ge, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurobiology and Behavior, SUNY Stony Brook
Find out more »Seminar: “Efficiently surveying the chromatin occupancy landscape”
Alexander J Hartemink, Professor Biology and Computer Science, Duke University
Find out more »May 2018
Seminar: “Metabolic control and signaling circuits in lymphocyte fate decisions”
Hongbo Chi, PhD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Find out more »Seminar: “Top Down Proteomics for Precise Description of KRAS Gene Products in Colorectal Cancer”
Neil Kelleher, PhD, Northwestern University
Find out more »Seminar: “RNA Virus Infection and Evolution”
Raul Andio, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Find out more »Steelman Symposium to Honor Gary L. Johnson
Invited speakers: Roger J. Davis, PhD, FRS - Investigator, HHMI, Arthur Smith Chair & Professor, Program in Molecular Medicine, U. of Massachusetts Medical School Talk title: "Stress Signaling in the Mammary Epithelium James S. Duncan, PhD - Cancer Biology, Fox Chase Cancer Center Talk title: "Defining K-Ras mutation specific kinome signature and vulnerabilities in colorectal cancer" Amy Abell, PhD - Biological Sciences, U. Memphis Talk title: "Epigenetic regulation of epithelial-mesenchymal transition in stem cells and Claudin-low breast cancer" Michael P. Czech,…
Find out more »Seminar: “Inhaled Drugs to Treat Tuberculosis”
Miriam Braunstein - Anti-Infectives Group
Find out more »Seminar: “Cytoskeletal self-organization and cell morphogenesis”
Alexander Breshadsky, PhD, Mechanobiology Institute, National University of Singapore
Find out more »June 2018
Seminar: “Mechanobiology of cell protrusions”
Amrinder Nain, PhD, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, Virginia Tech
Find out more »Seminar: “CD8+ T cell residency and recirculation in HIV-infected lymph nodes”
Michael Betts, Department of Microbiology, University of Pennsylvania
Find out more »August 2018
Seminar: “Spatial Organization of UPEC biofilms as a function of oxygen gradients”
Maria Hadjifrangiskou, PhD, Vanderbilt University
Find out more »Seminar: “BCMP Seminar: Targeting Cell Signaling Pathways for Cancer”
Wenyi Wei, PhD, Professor, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School
Find out more »September 2018
NSF GRFP Fellowship Workshop-Enhancing your Competitiveness
The prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship is open to undergraduate seniors and first & second year graduate students in STEM fields who do not have a Masters degree or more than 12 months of postbaccalaureate training. The fellowship offers 3 years of support, $34,000 annual stipend, $12,000 cost-of-education allowance (to the institution), international research and professional development opportunities, and XSEDE Supercomputer access. Register: http://tinyurl.com/y8b4aqc4
Find out more »Seminar: “How does HIV persist and how can we eliminate it?”
John W. Mellors, MD< Professor of Medicine, Chief, Division Infectious Diseases and Endowed Chair for Global Elimination of HIV and AIDS, University of Pittsburgh
Find out more »Seminar: “Cullin-RING Ubiquitin Ligases: A Microcosm of Discovery in Biology”
Dr. Ray Deshaies, Senior Vice President of Research at Amgen, Inc.
Find out more »Seminar: “Immune control of Zika virus infection”
Mehul Suthar, PhD, Emory Vaccine Center
Find out more »October 2018
Seminar: “Distinct Thresholds of Apoptosis: The Cautious and the Willing”
Mohanish Deshmukh, UNC
Find out more »Seminar: Cis- and Trans-Regulatory Logics of Blood Stem Cells and Cancer
Jian Xu, PhD, UT Southwestern University
Find out more »Seminar: “Breast SPORE: The Development of CDK 4/6 Inhibitors in Breast Cancer”
Richard Finn, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Find out more »Seminar: “Natural Killer Cell Recognition and Responses”
Lewis L. Lanier, PhD, University of California, San Francisco
Find out more »Seminar: “Cooperative Oncogenic Signaling of 3q26 Genes in Lung Cancer”
Verline Justilien, PhD, May Clinic of Medicine and Science
Find out more »Seminar: “G-proteins to Kinases to Epigenetics: Trying to Understand Cell Signaling and Human Disease”
Gary L. Johnson, PhD, UNC-CH
Find out more »Seminar: “Alchemical free energy approaches in ligand refinement and protein engineering”
Irina Ethell, PhD, UC Riverside
Find out more »Seminar: “Understanding and Targeting Glioblastoma Treatment pHailures”
Anita B. Hjelmeland, UAB
Find out more »November 2018
Seminar: “Innate Immune Defense and Repair Functions at the Skin Barrier”
Amanda MacLeod, MD, Duke University School of Medicine
Find out more »Seminar: “The Stem Cell Biology Group aims to understand the regulation of the pluripotent state in cells in culture and during early embryonic development New Insights and Strategies for Cancer Therapy”
Guang Hu, PhD, NIEHS, Stepm Cell Biology Group
Find out more »Seminar: “Cellular and Molecular models for epigenetic studies of human diseases”
John H. Greally, PhD, MB, B Ch, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Find out more »Seminar: “Managing metals in microbes: new insights from Bacillus subtilis”
John Helmann, PhD, Cornell University
Find out more »Seminar: “The OncoPPi Network: Cancer-associated protein-protein interactions for therapeutic target discovery”
Haian Fu, PhD, Emory
Find out more »Seminar: “Cellular and Molecular models for epigenetic studies of human diseases”
John H. Greally, PhD, MB, B Ch, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Find out more »January 2019
IMPACT Internship Panel/Info Session & Q&A
ImPACT Internships: Thinking about an internship in your future? Come hear from ImPACT Interns about their experiences at a variety of types of jobs during their ImPACT Internships! Plus learn more about the application and placement process, get tips on creating a successful application at the Info Session and Q&A with Dr. Patrick Brandt. ImPACT Applications for the 2019 Cycle due Feb 1. Register for the ImPACT Internship Panel/Info Session here: http://tinyurl.com/yaptodgc
Find out more »Seminar: “AI for Healthcare: Recent Advances”
Regina Barzilay, PhD, Delta Electronics Professor, EECS MacArthur Fellow, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Find out more »Seminar: “Modulation of innate immune signaling and epithelial cell function by the obligate pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis”
Raphael H Valdivia, PhD, Professor of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Vice Dean for Basic Science, Duke University
Find out more »CICBDD Seminar – Speaker Dr. Nathanael S. Gray, Harvard Medical School/Dana Farber Cancer Institute
January 14 4pm 1131 Bioinformatics The development of new anti-cancer therapies continues to be massively outpaced by the rapidly expanding knowledge into the biological mechanisms that underpin the development of cancer. One major obstacle is that many potentially interesting targets are challenging to drug. This lecture will focus on strategies using covalent inhibitors and small molecule degraders which hold the promise of making many previously challenging targets druggable. In particular, we will focus on the use of these approaches to…
Find out more »Seminar: “Career Conversion”
Don Alexander, CPC, CFP, President and Managing Director, GeneCoda Executive and Professional Search
Find out more »Seminar: “Role of Matrix Metalloproteinase 9, Perineuronal Nets and Cortical Circuits in Auditory Hyperexcitability in Fragile X Syndrome Mouse Model”
Iryna Ethell, PhD, Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Find out more »Seminar: “Cullin-RING ubiquitin ligases: a microcosm of discovery in biology”
Raymond Deshaies, PhD, Senior Vice President, Division of Research, Amgen, Inc.
Find out more »Seminar: “Basal transcription factor TFIID: epigenetics, stem cells and assembly”
Marc Timmers, PhD, Professor of Medical Epigenetics, University of Frieburg Germany
Find out more »February 2019
Seminar: “Tracing 3D DNA structures during embryogenesis”
Allistair Boettiger, Assistant Professor of Developmental Biology at Stanford University
Find out more »Seminar: “Conditional control of protein function through protein engineering and genetic code expansion”
Duy Nguyen, PhD, Post-doctoral Research, University of California, San Francisco, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Find out more »“Protein-Protein Interactions-From Inhibition to Degradation”
George Burslem, PhD, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, Yale University
Find out more »“Protein Complexes that Modify Chromatin for Transcription”
Jerry Workman, PhD, Investigator, Stowers institute for Medical Research
Find out more »March 2019
“Duplicating the genome and re-establishing the chromatin landscape”
David MacAlpine, Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University
Find out more »“Targeting BAF (SWI/SNF) and PBAF dysfunction in cancer”
H. Courtney Hodges, Assistant Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Dan L Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, Balor College of Medicine, MD Anderson Center for Cancer Epigenetics
Find out more »“Opioid-induced Plasticity and the Intersection with Pain”
Dr. Jose Moron-Concepcion, WUSTL
Find out more »“The role of DNA looping and break formation in HPV replication”
Lou Laimins, PhD, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Find out more »“CONFOUNDING ROLES OF ESSENTIAL CARETAKER GENES IN TUMORIGENESIS: INSIGHTS GAINED FROM BCCIP STUDIES”
Zhijuan Shen PhD, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey, Radiation Oncology
Find out more »“Ubiquitin Signaling and Cell Cycle Control”
Dr. Michael Emanuele of UNC, Dept of Pharmacology
Find out more »“Natural killer cells and missing-self”
Wayne Yokoyama, MD, Washington University
Find out more »“Local and Targeted Redox Therapies for the Vasculature”
Dr. Edward Bahnson, UNC, Dept. of Cell Biology and Physiology
Find out more »“Calm under stress: gene regulatory networks in archaeal extremophiles”
Amy Schmid, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology, Duke University
Find out more »April 2019
“Quantitation of Single Molecule Combinations of Post-Translational Modifications Reveals New Mechanistic Landscapes of Chromatin Regulation”
Nicolas Young, PhD, Assistant Professor, Baylor College of Medicine
Find out more »“Deciphering the Regulatory Ubiquitin Code on the Ribosome”
Dr. Eric Bennett, UCSD
Find out more »“Quantitative Models of Cell-Cell Signaling in Development”
The GMB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Gregory T Reeves
Find out more »“Nucleic acid detection in host defense and autoimmunity”
Daniel Stetson, PhD, University of Washington
Find out more »“A Novel Targeted Nonotherapeutic Approach to Stop Hemorrahage”
Melina Kibbe, Md, Distinguished Professor and Chair, Division of Surgery, UNC SOM
Find out more »“The Role of Allosteric Communication in Functional Selectivity and Promiscuity of GPCRs”
Dr. Vaidehi Nagarajun, City of Hope
Find out more »“Transposable elements and epigenome evolution”
Ting Wang, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Department of Genetics, Washington University School of Medicine
Find out more »Seminar: Wes Trotter, PhD, Director, Medicinal Chemistry, Merck Laboratories
Topic: TBA
Find out more »May 2019
“Many weak trans eQTLs drive omnigenic architecture of human complex traits”
The Genetics and Molecular Biology Friday Seminar Series and the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology welcomes Jonathan Pritchard of Stanford University
Find out more »“Signaling at the T Cell Antigen Receptor”
Dr. Larry Samuelson, NIH/NCI
Find out more »“UNC Computational Medicine Seminar: AI for Healthcare: Recent Advances”
Regina Barzilay, PhD, Delta Electronics Professor, EECS MacArthur Fellow MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Find out more »“K63 Ubiquitin and Translation Control in Response to Oxidative Stress”
Gustavo Silva, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Duke University
Find out more »June 2019
“Children’s Research Institute Seminar Series: Acute Leukemia Genomics Across the Translational Spectrum”
Thomas Alexander, MD, MPH, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, UNC School of Medicine, UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center
Find out more »July 2019
“Investigating the genetic makeup of clear cell renal cell carcinoma”
Genetics & Molecular Biology Student Defense Aleisha Smith Student of William Kim
Find out more »Responsible Conduct of Research
This 3-day course covers all NIH-required topics for the first phase of responsible conduct of research training. Individuals who have had prior RCR training may volunteer to serve as discussion leaders for the course to document ongoing RCR exposure if needed for training grants.
Find out more »August 2019
September 2019
Seminar: “Cryo-EM of Helical Polymers at Near-Atomic REsolution Yields Many Surprises”
Edward Egelman, PhD - University of Virginia
Find out more »Seminar: “Regulation of Cellular Quiescence”
Larisa Litovchick, PhD - Virginia Commonwealth University
Find out more »Seminar: “Advancing the science of clinical variant interpretation using validated functional assays”
Jonathan Berg, MD, PhD - UNC
Find out more »October 2019
Seminar: “Alternative splicing and membrane trafficking in development and disease”
Jimene Giudice, PhD - UNC
Find out more »Seminar: “The highs and lows of cryo-EM and its use in studying molecular machines of mass destruction”
Gabe Lander, PhD - Scripps Research Institute
Find out more »Seminar: “Regulation of Exocytosis by inhibitory GPCRs and Gbg subunits”
Heidi Hamm, PhD - Vanderbilt University
Find out more »Seminar: “Catching a Glimpse of Lipoprotein Lipase”
Kathryn Gunn, PhD - UNC
Find out more »Seminar: “Proteogenomics: A New Avenue for Cancer Research”
Bing Zhang, PhD - Baylor College of Medicine
Find out more »November 2019
Friday – GMB Seminar Series: Karla Neugebauer
The GMB Friday Seminar Series welcomes Karla Neugebauer, Department of Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry (Acting Chair), Department of Cell Biology, Director of the Yale Center for RNA Science and Medicine at Yale University on Friday, November 1, 2019. Dr. Neugebauer’s talk title is “Eukaryotic RNA Synthesis and Processing in the Nuclear Landscape”.
Find out more »Seminar: “Selective recognition of lanthanides in biology”
Joseph Cotruvo, PhD - Penn State University
Find out more »“Arsenic and the human genome: susceptibility and response to exposure”
Brandon Pierce, Assistant Professor, Departments of Health Studies and Genetics at the University of Chicago
Find out more »Seminar: “Functional overlap and specialization of divergent actins in Chlamydomonas”
Prachee Avasthi, Assistant Professor, Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at University of Kansas Medical Center
Find out more »Seminar: “Detecting RNA methylation and its role in gene expression”
Kate Meyer, PhD - Duke University School of Medicine
Find out more »Seminar: “Cellular and molecular models for epigenetic studies of human disease”
John Greally, Professor of Genetics, Medicine, and Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Find out more »December 2019
Seminar: “RNA Binding and Regulation in Normal and Disease States”
Daniel Dominguez, PhD - UNC
Find out more »March 2022
Determining the regulatory logic of cancer cells at single-cell resolution
Via Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/96318452720?pwd=MGMyOUVRSitYQ29mSXB5ZURvd0VPUT09#success Hector L. Franco Assistant Professor UNC Department of Genetics
Find out more »April 2022
Learning mechanistic models of cell differentiation from single-cell multi-omic data
Via Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/92049794378?pwd=M1hWS1dtNTRKWTdPd3BiejJ3TlFxdz09#success GMB Friday Seminar Series Joshua D. Welch Assistant Professor University of Michigan Hosted by Yuchao Jiang
Find out more »Immune responses to hepatitis A virus (HAV) in a mouse model
Via Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96318452720?pwd=MGMyOUVRSitYQ29mSXB5ZURvd0VPUT09#success Genetics Research Colloquium Ichiro Misumi Assistant Professor UNC Department of Genetics
Find out more »GMB Student Defense – Gene Regulation in Time and Space
Via Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/91474555209?pwd=citqZ1ViaTV6MVRQM1RCQlBnbDF2UT09#success Katie Metz Reed Doug Phanstiel Lab
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