School advancing AI-driven drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease - Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Researchers will pair AI-driven predictions with laboratory validation to uncover new therapeutic strategies.
Konstantin Popov is leading an interdisciplinary research team pairing AI-driven predictions with laboratory validation to uncover new therapeutic strategies to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Pharmacy/Biochemistry Biophysics
Learn more about this AI project below: pharmacy.unc.edu/2026/02/18/s...
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UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Our mission is to perform transformative biochemical and biophysical research in an inclusive and stimulating training environment.
Keep up with news from Biochemistry Biophysics at University of North Carolina School of Medicine. We are proud to support the mission, vision, and values of the UNC School of Medicine & grateful to serve the people of North Carolina.
www.med.unc.edu/biochem/
12.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
If you’re attending #BPS2026, there are several opportunities to hear about ongoing projects in the Starbird lab. Looking forward to seeing everyone at BPS!
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School advancing AI-driven drug discovery for Alzheimer’s disease - Eshelman School of Pharmacy
Researchers will pair AI-driven predictions with laboratory validation to uncover new therapeutic strategies.
Konstantin Popov is leading an interdisciplinary research team pairing AI-driven predictions with laboratory validation to uncover new therapeutic strategies to treat Alzheimer’s disease.
Pharmacy/Biochemistry Biophysics
Learn more about this AI project below: pharmacy.unc.edu/2026/02/18/s...
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March 24 Seminar: Michael Kemp, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Dept of Pharmacology & Toxicology of Wright State Univ. at the Boonshoft School of Medicine.
Research topic
Understanding cellular responses to DNA damage.
UNC Hosts: Drs. Sancar & Lindsey-Boltz.
Date & Time: 3/24/206, 11 AM
Venue: 1131 Bioinfo.
16.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
UNC Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics
Our mission is to perform transformative biochemical and biophysical research in an inclusive and stimulating training environment.
Keep up with news from Biochemistry Biophysics at University of North Carolina School of Medicine. We are proud to support the mission, vision, and values of the UNC School of Medicine & grateful to serve the people of North Carolina.
www.med.unc.edu/biochem/
12.02.2026 20:16 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Congrats to UNC Wolfgang Bergmeier Lab and all authors!
02.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in summer research at UNC?
Learn how to be a strong candidate for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
📅 Feb. 5, 2026
🕔 5:30–6:30 PM
📍 Genome Sciences G010
Get guidance on applying, funding your project, and working with a faculty mentor.
🔗 Registration required on HeelLife
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Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowships | Office for Undergraduate Research
🌟 UNC undergrads—ready to dive into research?
Apply for the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)!
✅ $4,000 stipend
✅ 9 weeks of hands-on research
📅 Deadline: Feb 1, 2026
👉 Learn more: our.unc.edu/fund/surf/
#UndergraduateResearch #SURF #UNCResearch #STEM
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New preprint alert! We share some of our recent insights about sequence similarity in IDP protein families and find that conservative substitutions in well-conserved binding motifs of the CITED proteins have big impacts on their ensembles and functions. Take a look!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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UNC's 45th Annual MLK Jr. Week of Celebration: January 19 – 23, UNC students, staff, faculty, and the surrounding community are invited to engage in a series of events and speaking engagements, all with the shared mission of highlighting Dr. King’s eternal message of unity.
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UNC's 45th Annual MLK Jr. Week of Celebration: January 19 – 23, UNC students, staff, faculty, and the surrounding community are invited to engage in a series of events and speaking engagements, all with the shared mission of highlighting Dr. King’s eternal message of unity.
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Save the date for the 45th Annual MLK Jr. Week of Celebration!
From January 19 – 23, UNC students, staff, faculty, and the surrounding community are invited to engage in a series of events and speaking engagements, all with the shared mission of highlighting Dr. King’s eternal message of unity. See events on UNC website
Save the date for the 45th Annual MLK Jr. Week of Celebration!
From January 19 – 23, UNC students, staff, faculty, and the surrounding community are invited to engage in a series of events and speaking engagements, all with the shared mission of highlighting Dr. King’s eternal message of unity.
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Congrats Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar MD PhD et al on "UNC collaboration repurposes lab chemical as potential new brain tumor drug!" October 2025 NC TraCS news tracs.unc.edu/.../2363-unc...
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Dr. Irena Levitan
Welcome our Visiting Faculty Member! Dr. Irena Levitan has joined our department as a visiting faculty through May 2026. She is Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, hosted by Dr. Saskia Neher. Please welcome Dr. Levitan!
12.01.2026 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New publication in JBC Jan 2026 (B.Strahl, J.Dowen labs) Congrats to Riya Gohil, first author!
HMGN1 and HMGN2 are recruited to acetylated and histone variant H2A.Z-containing nucleosomes to regulate chromatin state and transcription
New publication in JBC Jan 2026 (B.Strahl, J.Dowen labs) Congrats to Riya Gohil, first author!
HMGN1 and HMGN2 are recruited to acetylated and histone variant H2A.Z-containing nucleosomes to regulate chromatin state and transcription
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
12.01.2026 19:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Dr. Irena Levitan
Welcome our Visiting Faculty Member! Dr. Irena Levitan has joined our department as a visiting faculty through May 2026. She is Professor of Medicine and Bioengineering at the University of Illinois at Chicago, hosted by Dr. Saskia Neher. Please welcome Dr. Levitan!
12.01.2026 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Abid Khan PhD of the Brian Strahl lab at UNC Chapel Hill
Huge congratulations to Abid Khan, PhD 👏
@abidkhanepigen.bsky.social from
Brian Strahl's lab for earning the 2025 Staff Excellence Award for Research!
Honored by the UNC SOM Department of Biochemistry & Biophysics for outstanding contributions to epigenetics research. 🎉UNC_SOM
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Congrats Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar MD PhD et al on "UNC collaboration repurposes lab chemical as potential new brain tumor drug!" October 2025 NC TraCS news tracs.unc.edu/.../2363-unc...
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Derek Bolhuis PhD
Derek Bolhuis earned his PhD on December 19th! His thesis is entitled “USP37 Earns its PH-D, and How it Ensures Cell Cycle Progression.” He will remain at UNC through June 2026. Congrats Dr. Bolhuis! go.unc.edu/t3JLd
07.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Derek Bolhuis PhD
Derek Bolhuis earned his PhD on December 19th! His thesis is entitled “USP37 Earns its PH-D, and How it Ensures Cell Cycle Progression.” He will remain at UNC through June 2026. Congrats Dr. Bolhuis! go.unc.edu/t3JLd
07.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy FDOC!
First and for all
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Happy FDOC!
First Day of Classes!
#UNC
07.01.2026 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy FDOC!
First and for all
UNC logo
Happy FDOC!
First Day of Classes!
#UNC
07.01.2026 16:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Happy Holidays from the Berlow Lab! I'm incredibly grateful to be closing out this year with such a hardworking, fun, and collaborative team.
We are already looking forward to sharing some exciting updates in the new year, so stay tuned for lots of great science (and more) in 2026!
19.12.2025 21:55 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
large group of people at a conference in Chapel Hill in the Fall of 2025 outside holding a banner that reads "Catalyzing Curiosity, Careers, and Cures" UNC School of Medicine Biochemistry and Biophysics
This is a great place to be. We are hiring new faculty in 2026! We look forward to meeting our candidates in January and February. #ResearchExcellence #OutstandingScientists #BiomedicalResearch
18.12.2025 13:44 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Celebrating admirable women and girls (historical & contemporary). Their courage, resilience, perseverance, triumphs. Highlighting "firsts." Raising awareness of injustices and our struggles, obstacles, erasure, and more. #WomenInSTEM & in everything else!
Retired librarian, MLS, 30 years in profession, liberal, Democrat, reading, books, writing books and screenplays and short stories. Supports Blue, #Resistance, NeverTrump
Science News | Biotech | #Scicomm | #interview | #scikonnect | #career | #Mentors | #Jobs | #biopatrika | Managed by SciKonnect @Singh_Virender
Graduate student at University of Toronto.
Interested in enzymes.
In simplest broadest sentence : I would like to apply physics and chemistry to understand biology!
Data Engineer, etc
AI/ML/NLP, information and data
laurarupprecht.com
Professor at UMass Chan that studies autophagy during development and disease. Nature lover and explorer.
We use molecular & cell biology and single-molecule approaches to study DNA replication stress and its contribution to genome instability in cancer.
Professor at Yale School of Medicine; Associate Director of Yale MD/PhD Program; Amateur Perfumer; Retired Attorney; Court-Appointed Special Advocate Volunteer, CASA-NYC. 🧪🧪🧪 🦅🦅🦅🏈🏈🏈
https://medicine.yale.edu/profile/michael-nitabach/
DPhil student at Hammond lab, University of Oxford | Department of Oncology
Cancer biology Prof at Oxford University, focused on the biological response to hypoxia including replication stress, UPR and transcription
Group leader at the Danish Cancer Institute and Professor at University of Copenhagen #NNFCPR. Interested in epigenetics, genome maintenance, aging & cancer, creativity & innovation, society in general. Opinions are my own.
Author: Inclusive Teaching | Professor | Speaker | Writer | she | “vidg-ee” | விஜி inclusifiEd.com
vijisathy.com
Senior Editor at Molecular Cell
My research lab at the Mayo Clinic studies genome maintenance and replication stress in carcinogenesis and associated therapy. Training and mentorship to assist lab members in achieving their goals are top priorities for my lab.
Scientists using microscopes, math, physics and fun to discover how cells work @Duke Cell Biology/BME. https://gladfelterlab.net
Assistant Professor, Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University
The Hinton Lab utilizes SBF-SEM and FIB-SEM to investigate the molecular mechanisms that regulate molecule transfer and morphology changes between the Mito and ER
Cancer biologist, studying signaling, protein kinases and therapeutics, lover of music, father to 4 magnificent children. Views are mine own and my dog's.
combined my starbucks name and my field because I'm super creative. MIT | UMBC MS | UNC PhD | nmshahir.com | she/they
Group leader at the Institute of Biophysics, Czech Academy of Sciences | Czech Science Foundation Junior Star fellow | ERA & EMBO IG fellow | Deciphering DNA replication & genome integrity in normal & cancer development.
