Be sure to check out Printmaking and Biology’s one-day art show in the bottom floor lobby of the Genome Science Building on January 13th from 4 to 6 pm! More info is below:
Artist/Scientist: Printmaking and Biology
A one-day show of science-themed art
Friday, Jan 13, 4-6 pm
Genome Science Building, bottom floor lobby
UNC-Chapel Hill’s unusual course merging studio art and biology hosts a one-day show of science-themed art.
Congratulations to Senay Yitbarek for being awarded his first competitive grant! This seed grant is from the Center for Galapagos Studies and is entitled “The interplay between global change and host-pathogen dynamics.” Congratulations, Senay!
Congratulations to Dr. Rob Dowen, who has been granted a Junior Faculty Development Award by the office of Provost J. Christopher Clemens!
Congratulations to Isabel Silva-Romero, whose research has been featured on UNC Endeavor’s website! Isabel, a member of John Bruno’s lab, “studies how ocean temperatures affect the food web on rocky reefs around the Galápagos Islands.” Be sure to check out this article and the accompanying video!
Congratulations to Rachel DuMez, a doctoral candidate in Assistant Professor Rob Dowen’s lab, for being featured in the Graduate School Magazine! DuMez participated in the Three Minute Thesis competition, in which she highlighted her investigation of the true health benefits behind kombucha. Congratulations, Rachel! Read the full piece here.
The Copenhaver lab has published a collaborative paper in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences entitled “DNA polymerase epsilon binds histone H3.1-H4 and recruits MORC1 to mediate meiotic heterochromatin condensation” which enhances our understanding of how protein factors are recruited to chromosomes during plant reproduction to help reshape chromosome structure. The paper’s first author, Cong Wang, was co-advised by Drs. Copenhaver and Wang, and the second author, Jiyue Wang joined the Copenhaver lab as a postdoctoral associate.
Check it out here.
Congratulations to Kacy Gordon for being featured by UNC Research and for being awarded a nearly $2 million National Institutes of General Medical Sciences grant! The article states, “By investigating the behavior of stem cells in a microscopic worm, Kacy Gordon’s lab hopes to produce useful knowledge at larger scales of biological complexity.” Congratulations, Kacy! Check out the article here.
UNC Senior Carolina Scholar Amber Amparo won a Best Poster in Cancer Biology award at the National Diversity in STEM SACNAS Conference for her poster, “Defining the Role of Mitochondrial Dynamics in Regulating PDAC Cell Sensitivity to KRAS and ERK Inhibition” reporting her research with Pharmacology Professor Dr. Channing Der and postdoc Dr. Kristina Drizyte-Miller. Amber is a double major in Biology and Biostatistics with a minor in Chemistry. Congratulations Amber, we are proud of you!
Congratulations to Amy Gladfelter for being quoted in an article in Nature. The article, “The shape-shifting blobs that shook up cell biology,” goes into how researchers are investigating the droplets found inside cells. Be sure to read the article here!
John Bruno has been featured in the NC Health News article, “Socially sustainable seafood requires diligence, scrutiny,” which focuses on mislabeling in the seafood industry. The article goes into detail about Bruno’s undergraduate course designed to investigate mislabeling in the food industry. Check out the article here.