Sarah Nicolson, a member of Jude Samulski’s lab, defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. July 7, 2014. The title of her thesis was “Understanding mechanisms of Adeno-associated virus vector transduction through pharmacological and biological approaches.” Our congratulations to Sarah!
The four Carolina Summer Fellows made presentations of their summer research July 21, 2014. The students, their mentors and the titles of their talks were Caye Dorrier, Colin McDowell, Laura Weng and Raymond Zhang.
Jeran Stratford, a member of Jen Jen Yeh and Channing Der’s labs received his Ph.D. after successfully defending his thesis July 3, 2014. Our congratulations to Jeran!
Doug Ornoff, a member of Nancy Allbritton’s lab, successfully defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. June 19, 2014. Our congratulations to Doug!
Pictured above: First row (L-R): Cayce Dorrier (Tom Kash’s lab); Laura Weng (Alex Duncan’s lab); Raymond Zhang (Lee Graves’ lab) Second row: Dr. Rob Nicholas and Dr. Lee Graves; and Colin McDowell (Rob Nicholas’ lab). Click for larger image. Each year the Department of Pharmacology selects a number of undergraduate students to receive Carolina Summer … Read more
Seven new BBSP Students gave end of year presentations upon joining the Pharmacology Department’s graduate program.
Justin English, a member of Henrik Dohlman’s lab, defended his thesis and received his Ph.D. April 1, 2014. The title of his thesis is “Stress on a Deadline: Setting a Timer for Adaptation in Living Cells.” Justin will be working as postdoc in the lab of Bryan Roth in the Pharmacology Department at UNC-CH via … Read more
Rajarshi Choudhury, PhD CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – Researchers in the UNC School of Medicine found that the protein DAZAP1 plays a key role in the regulation of many genes through a process known as alternative splicing, and when highly expressed in cancer cell line experiments, DAZAP1 was shown to inhibit several types of cancer … Read more
Above photo: Kate with her parents, Luann and Bill White, of Peoria, IL. Click for larger view. Kate White, a member of Bryan Roth’s lab, successfully defended her thesis and received her Ph.D. April 7, 2014. The title of her dissertation was ” Identification of biased kappa opioid receptor ligands for in vivo probing of … Read more
Daniel Dominguez, a member of Zefeng Wang’s lab, successfully defended his thesis and received his PH.D. March 14, 2014. Our congratulations to Danny! The title of dissertation was “Transcriptome Dynamics During the Mammalian Cell Cycle.” Photo below: Danny and his mentor, Zefeng Wang. Click for larger view. Photos below: Danny with friends, Brian and Chad, … Read more
