Xavier Bonner earns his Ph.D!
Xavier Bonner under the direction of Dr. Ronald Swanstrom successfully defended his dissertation “Determining Genotypic and Phenotypic Factors Influencing Macrophage Tropism in the HIV-1 Envelope Protein” on March 15, 2024 and received his PhD!
Lauren Hutchinson receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
The prestigious and competitive fellowship program recognizes outstanding graduate students in NSF-supported science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines who are pursuing research-based master’s and doctoral degrees at accredited U.S. institutions.
MCBP faculty Abigail Knight receives Sloan Fellowship
A total of 126 early-career researchers were awarded the fellowships, given to extraordinary U.S. and Canadian scientists whose creativity, innovation and research accomplishments make them stand out as the next generation of leaders. The new fellows, who were nominated by their peers, are drawn from a diverse range of 53 institutions across seven academic fields.
Hahn Awarded CZI Grant to Monitor, Manipulate Proteins Important in Nervous System Function, Neurological Disease
Klaus Hahn, PhD, the Ronald G. Thurman Distinguished Professor of Pharmacology and member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, will be co-leading a project titled, “Research Triangle: Revealing the Hidden Topologies of the Human Kinome” with Scott Soderling, PhD, a cell biologist at Duke University and Albert Keung, PhD, a chemical and biomolecular engineer at North Carolina State University.
Legant Lab paper makes the cover of Nature Methods
Pharmacology’s Wesley Legant, PhD, and Department of Biomedical Engineering’s, Yu Shi, PhD, latest paper, “Smart Lattice Light-Sheet Microscopy for Imaging Rare and Complete Cellular Events” was featured on the cover of Nature Methods.
Darex J. Vera Rodriguez named Venture Catalyst Program Fellow
The Venture Catalyst Program (VCP) is a dynamic training ground for those interested to immerse themselves in the world of academic technology transfer and commercialization. This program bridges the gap between academic discoveries and practical business acumen. The initiative facilitates the relationship between UNC-affiliated startups and entrepreneurial fellows, offering unique experiential learning, educational foundation, and ecosystem networking.
Amelia McCue receives the Dianne Harris Leadership Award
Amelia McCue is the recipient of the Diane Harris Leadership Award in the Biochemistry and Biophysics Department.
Gary Pielak named 2024 Fellow of the Biophysical Society
The Society’s Fellows Committee has named Dr. Gary Pielak a 2024 Fellow of the Biophysical Society for his scholarly and extensive biophysical studies on protein structure and dynamics, both in vitro and inside cells, with a particular emphasis on crowding. The recognition ceremony … Read more
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“, explores a newly developed model of macromolecular crowding that indicated entropy disfavoring folding.
Gage O. Leighton received his PhD!
Gage O. Leighton successfully defended his PhD dissertation titled Probing the Importance of MBD2 in the Localization and Formation of the NuRD Complex on April 6th 2023. His thesis work was completed under the direction of Dr. David C. Williams Jr.