1 year ago
Spotlighting the HIV Cure Team
The Principal Investigators, Guochun Jiang and Brian Strahl and researchers, Yuyang Tang, Dajing Li, and Cam Sutton, were among 50 researchers and students highlighted at the HIV Cure Center.
Tag: Faculty & Lab News
1 year ago
New Research Shows HIV Can Lie Dormant in the Brain
Yuyang Tang, PhD, and Guochun Jiang, PhD, extracted living brain tissue to conclude that specialized immune cells in the brain can harbor latent but replication-competent HIV.
1 year ago
Strahl Named Interim Assistant Dean for Research
Brian Strahl, PhD, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, will serve in the role of interim assistant dean for research of the School of Medicine. This role is overseen by Vice Dean for Research Blossom Damania, PhD, and it focuses on overseeing the infrastructure, communication and development necessary to bolster the growing research enterprise of the School of Medicine.
1 year ago
Cover of Cell – Juneteenth in STEMM and the barriers to equitable science
Congratulations to 52 Black scientists including Dr. Chrystal Starbird, our alum Dr. Michael D.L. Johnson, Dr. Nikea Pittman, and many others for establishing the context of Juneteenth in STEMM and discussing Juneteenth. The authors use the piece, highlighted by a cover image featuring a painting by a parent of one of the authors, to discuss how we can use this holiday to reflect on the ongoing barriers Black scientists face and how we can come together as a biomedical enterprise to tackle these challenges.
1 year ago
2023 Strategic Planning Retreat
The Biochemistry and Biophysics Strategic Planning Retreat followed the all-department Town Halls and Listening Sessions facilitated by Dr. Cam Enarson that started in December. The retreat was held over two half days on May 5 and May 9...
1 year ago
Liu and James labs publish in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences
"Development of VHL-recruiting STING PROTACs that suppress innate immunity" has been published online in Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. The first author is Dr. Zhichuan Zhu in the Pengda Liu lab.
1 year ago
NPR Science Friday: The Long And Short Of Telomere Activity
Dr. Jack Griffith, Kenan Distinguished Professor was featured on NPR's Science Friday for his groundbreaking microscopy research on telomeres published this spring in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
1 year ago
Pielak Lab Featured on the cover of Protein Science
Congratulations to Professor Gary Pielak, Claire Stewart, and Ashlee Propst for having their research highlighted on the May issue of Protein Science! Their paper, “Resolving the enthalpy of protein stabilization by macromolecular crowding“
1 year ago
Dr. Chrystal Starbird explains x-ray crystallography on NerdRx Podcast
This episode features Dr. Chrystal Starbird, Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill who talks about X-Ray Crystallography, a "rival" to CryoEM. She breaks crystallography down for the average listener.
1 year ago
Dr. Venkata R Chirasani named new director for R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core
Dr. Venkata R Chirasani will be joining as the director of R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core facility at UNC-Chapel Hill on May 1st, 2023.
1 year ago
Faculty attend the UNC vs Miami baseball game on April 13
Our faculty: Rebecca Berlow, Brian Kuhlman, Ron Swanstrom, Wolfgang Bergmeier, and Rick Baker went out for a social on April 13, 2023, at Boshamer Stadium to watch the UNC vs Miami baseball game.
1 year ago
Cryo-EM Core awarded a North Carolina Biotechnology Center innovation Impact Grant
The UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s Cryo Electron Microscopy Core is excited to announce that were awarded North Carolina Biotechnology Center Innovation Impact Grant (GII) for the acquisition of a Thermo-Fischer Scientific (TFS) micro-crystal electron diffraction (microED) package. This package includes an upgraded camera sensor (Ceta D camera, which is a type of CMOS based CCD camera designed specifically for collecting electron diffraction data) and software EPU-D for collecting MicroED data with their existing cryo-transmission electron microscope.