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Our admin team at top golf in July 8 2025 in NC

Our admin team as a human knot challenge in July 8, 2025 in NC

✨Teamwork, Transparency & Top Golf!✨We held our 2nd Annual BCBP Admin Staff Retreat—and whew, what a day! Thanks to Latasha for organizing!
💼 Dept. updates from Dr. Jean Cook
🎯 FY26 goals locked in
🧠 Real talk on mental health
🧩 Human Knot = crushed
🏌️‍♀️ Top Golf fun to wrap it up.

Our admin team at top golf in July 8 2025 in NC

Our admin team as a human knot challenge in July 8, 2025 in NC

✨Teamwork, Transparency & Top Golf!✨We held our 2nd Annual BCBP Admin Staff Retreat—and whew, what a day! Thanks to Latasha for organizing!
💼 Dept. updates from Dr. Jean Cook
🎯 FY26 goals locked in
🧠 Real talk on mental health
🧩 Human Knot = crushed
🏌️‍♀️ Top Golf fun to wrap it up.

Congratulations!

🚨 Registration Now Open! 🚨

Join us for the 2025 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting on Sept. 15 at Trent Semans Center!

Speakers:
🔬 Dr. Kris DeMali
🧫 Dr. Rae Cho
🧬 Dr. Stefanie Redemann

Showcase your research, exchange ideas, and connect with the Cytoskeleton community!

Register now! 💻

#TCM2025

thumbnail to video shows Mary Ellen Jones on cover and text "biomedical research core facilities at UNC Chapel Hill"

Core Facilities video - The Bedrock of UNC Research go.unc.edu/z4F9R

thumbnail to video shows Mary Ellen Jones on cover and text "biomedical research core facilities at UNC Chapel Hill"

Core Facilities video - The Bedrock of UNC Research go.unc.edu/z4F9R

Our lab was really excited to have Alexia join us this summer as part of the CUREP program, working with Skylar. She was an excellent intern and we know she has great things ahead!

She will also be presenting her work in our lab at ABRCMS in the fall, so stay tuned…

I’m so happy to share a project very close to my ❤️ launching this September: Atlas de Científicxs Latinoamericanxs que Inspiran ✨
We’re currently collecting nominations!
This atlas spotlights researchers from LATAM who trained in the North & returned home to lead labs. Here’s why this matters 🧵👇

Career Awards at the Scientific Interface - Burroughs Wellcome Fund by

Now accepting applications for Career Awards at the Scientific Interface www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo... LOI Deadline: September 2, 2025 #bwfcasi

Application now open: Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) is a highly competitive program that provides $700,000 awards over 5 years for physician-scientists, who are committed to an academic career
Deadline: 10/07/25
www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo...
#bwfcams

Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting

2025 Triangle Cytoskeleton Meeting register at trianglecytoskeleton.com

Congratulations!

BWF is accepting LOIs for CHEX Centers—$2.5M over 5 yrs to support innovative work at the intersection of climate change + human health.

🗓 LOI due Aug 1, 2025
🔗 www.bwfund.org/funding-oppo...

#ClimateHealth #BWFChex #GrantOpportunity

Jiaoti Huang MD PhD

Our Fall Seminars Series begins on August 19
“Hormonal therapy resistance of prostate cancer: Molecular mechanisms and novel treatment strategies” by Jiaoti Huang MD PhD, Distinguished Prof. & Chair of Pathology (Duke University SOM)
Host: Pengda Liu. 11 AM in 1131 Bioinf bldg.

YouTube video by UNC Health Inside the Cook Lab: How Cell Cycle Research Transforms Medicine

Ever wonder how your cells know when to grow, copy their DNA, and split in two —and what goes wrong in cancer? Meet the Cook Lab at UNC SOM. The research team studies the cell division cycle & trains the next generation of scientists. Watch here for more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1tP...

Yang Family Biomedical Scholars Award Seminar will take place on July 11 @ 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm in Kirkland Auditorium, Koury Oral Health Sciences Building.

Today Thesis Defense July 7th 2:00pm

Today Thesis Defense July 7th 2:00pm

YouTube video by UNC Health Inside the Cook Lab: How Cell Cycle Research Transforms Medicine

Ever wonder how your cells know when to grow, copy their DNA, and split in two —and what goes wrong in cancer? Meet the Cook Lab at UNC SOM. The research team studies the cell division cycle & trains the next generation of scientists. Watch here for more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1tP...

UNC School of Medicine Names 2024-25 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars | Newsroom Gaorav Gupta, MD, PhD, Misty Good, MD, MS, and Jason Stein, PhD, were selected as Yang Family Biomedical Scholars in the eighth installment of this annual School of Medicine award.

The UNC School of Medicine has named the 2024–25 Yang Family Biomedical Scholars: Drs. Gaorav Gupta, Misty Good & Jason Stein! Each will receive research funding and join the Yang Society of Biomedical Scholars. Read about the awardees: news.unchealthcare.org/2025/04/unc-...

Student Thesis Defense: Dalia Fleifel (Dr. Jean Cook’s lab) will defend her dissertation, “DNA Replication Keynote and Coda: MCM's Journey On and Off”, on Monday, July 7 at 2:00PM in Bioinformatics 1131. image of Dalia dressed up in a hat in Egypt

Student Thesis Defense: Dalia Fleifel (Dr. Jean Cook’s lab) will defend her dissertation, “DNA Replication Keynote and Coda: MCM's Journey On and Off”, on Monday, July 7 at 2:00PM in Bioinformatics 1131.

text "Dr. Qi Zhang Named Inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor" image Qi Zhang PhD standing outside the Genetic Medicine building wearing a blue dress shirt text "Dr. Qi Zhang, Professor and Associate Chair of Community and Engagement in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been named the inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor, effective July 1, 2025. This professorship recognizes Dr. Zhang’s outstanding contributions to research, education, and the academic community."

Congratulations to Dr. Qi Zhang Named Inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor!

text "Dr. Qi Zhang Named Inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor" image Qi Zhang PhD standing outside the Genetic Medicine building wearing a blue dress shirt text "Dr. Qi Zhang, Professor and Associate Chair of Community and Engagement in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, has been named the inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor, effective July 1, 2025. This professorship recognizes Dr. Zhang’s outstanding contributions to research, education, and the academic community."

Congratulations to Dr. Qi Zhang Named Inaugural Arrel Toews Research and Teaching Distinguished Term Professor!

NIH-funded science must now be free to read instantly: what you should know US biomedical agency’s public-access policy kicks in on 1 July. Nature talks to specialists about how to comply.

Starting July 1, researchers funded by the US National Institutes of Health will be required to make their scientific papers available to read for free as soon as they are published in a peer-reviewed journal. Nature asks experts what researchers need to know about the NIH policy. #Academicsky 🧪

Dr. Chris Travis will serve as New Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility | Biochemistry and Biophysics Welcome to the new Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility, Dr. Chris Travis. Before joining UNC, Chris spent time at GSK at a medicinal chemistry co-op working on a program in the pr...

Dr. Chris Travis will serve as New Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Core Facility
go.unc.edu/ChrisTravis

Dr. Chris Travis will serve as New Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility | Biochemistry and Biophysics Welcome to the new Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Facility, Dr. Chris Travis. Before joining UNC, Chris spent time at GSK at a medicinal chemistry co-op working on a program in the pr...

Dr. Chris Travis will serve as New Director of the UNC Macromolecular Interactions Core Facility
go.unc.edu/ChrisTravis

Dr. Ash Tripathy will step down as Core Director from the Mac-In-Fac on July 1, 2025.  We are enormously grateful for everything Ash Tripathy has done for UNC research and our department over the last 25+ years. We wish him a relaxing and well-deserved retirement.

Dr. Ash Tripathy to step down as Core Director from the Macromolecular Interactions on July 1. go.unc.edu/m9TSc

Dr. Ash Tripathy will step down as Core Director from the Mac-In-Fac on July 1, 2025.  We are enormously grateful for everything Ash Tripathy has done for UNC research and our department over the last 25+ years. We wish him a relaxing and well-deserved retirement.

Dr. Ash Tripathy to step down as Core Director from the Macromolecular Interactions on July 1. go.unc.edu/m9TSc

!AlertCarolina! Informational- Extreme Heat Warning has been issued for Central NC 10:00am 6/24 - 8:00pm 6/25/2025. High temp will be 101 degrees. alertcarolina.unc.edu

June 24 event: Summer Seminar Series for Undergrads is designed to connect researchers in our labs with peers & faculty. This series provides insights into grad school and biotech careers. Tuesdays, 12–1 PM in GMB 3007. Speakers: Drs. Nikea Pittman & Chrystal Starbird

June 24 event: Summer Seminar Series for Undergrads is designed to connect researchers in our labs with peers & faculty. This series provides insights into grad school and biotech careers. Tuesdays, 12–1 PM in GMB 3007. Speakers: Drs. Nikea Pittman & Chrystal Starbird