Greg Copenhaver

Just a reminder that the application deadline for the @uncbiology.bsky.social tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology position closes in a week (Nov 17). Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

Beautiful day for some @uncchapelhill.bsky.social football.

New report: North Carolina’s growing energy needs and why energy storage matters now more than ever | Innovate Carolina A new report highlights the urgent need for investment in energy storage to support North Carolina’s rapidly changing energy landscape. As the state faces growing electricity demand from population gr...

Excited that the “Supercharging Energy Storage Innovations in North Carolina” report is live. Created by UNC’s Institute for Convergent Science, @unc-chemistry.bsky.social & UNC ECON, & funded by the NC Collaboratory it showcases NC as a leader in energy storage.
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The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...

The Dept of Mathematics @uncchapelhill.bsky.social is searching for 2 Teaching Assist./Assoc. Prof positions. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place & the Math Dept is a vibrant community. Job ads at UNC or @amermathsoc.bsky.social.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...

Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...

It’s humbling to see my father’s latest @harvardpress.bsky.social book in the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books. Despite my best efforts, he always stays a step or two ahead of me in scholarly productivity and quality 😊.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Whoops...typo...Wanyue (Diane) Xu.

I’m happy, particularly for lead student author Wanyue (Diane) Yu, to see our collaborative review on plant cross-over patterning in #meiosis published in @biochemsoc.bsky.social Transactions.
doi.org/10.1042/BST2...

Innovate Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring a PhD level Commercialization Fellow. The fellow will help @uncchapelhill.bsky.social researchers conceptualize & commercialize novel technologies. The Innovate Carolina team is fabulous - check out the job posting:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...

ANAPHASE-PROMOTING COMPLEX/CYCLOSOME coactivators maintain AURORA1 kinase homeostasis during meiotic chromosome segregation The ANAPHASE-PROMOTING COMPLEX/CYCLOSOME coactivators CDC20.1 and CCS52s play distinct roles in maintaining AURORA1 kinase homeostasis during meiotic chrom

I'm psyched to see our latest collaborative paper come out in
@theplantcell.bsky.social in which we show that Aurora 1 kinase is an APC/C substrate that mediates spindle assembly and chromosome segregation in #Meiosis:
doi.org/10.1093/plce...

@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & I give huge thanks to Frank McNally, Christoph Haag, Andy Kern, Bengt Hansson, @takashiakeralab.bsky.social & @scienceleah.bsky.social for being guests in our #Meiosis, Recombination, & Evolution of Sex class at UNC. A pic from our final session w/ students

Huge congratulations to my @uncchapelhill.bsky.social colleague Bob Goldstein for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bob is a brilliant developmental biologist who works on #Celegans, & on tardigrades (water bears). As if that's not enough, he's an amazing artist too!

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ @scienceleah.bsky.social about her lab's @plos.org Genetics paper on a unique chromosome segregation mechanism in holocentric moths. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ @takashiakeralab.bsky.social about his lab's @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on meiotic cohesin errors & sterility in hybrid mice. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Carolina biologist wins Wolf Prize in Agriculture - College of Arts and Sciences Jeffery L. Dangl, a biologist at UNC-Chapel Hill, was part of an award-winning trio of researchers who received the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture “for groundbreaking discoveries of the immune system ...

Woo-hoo! My friend and colleague, Jeff Dangl, together with Jonathan Jones & Brian Staskawicz have been awarded the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture. Amazing recognition of even more amazing science:
college.unc.edu/2025/03/wolf...

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ Bengt Hansson from @lund-university.bsky.social about his lab's #G3journal paper on bird male-biased CO patterning + new work: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...

Hard copies of my father’s latest book arrived. Champagne tonight!
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social , Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking with Any Kern @uoregon.bsky.social about his lab’s @currentbiology.bsky.social paper on octopus ZZ, ZO sex chromosome system: www.cell.com/current-biol...

The Biology Dept @uncchapelhill.bsky.social is searching for a Teaching Assistant Professor or Teaching Associate Professor. We're a vibrant community with fantastic colleagues and students. Apply and tell all your friends too! Here's the job posting link:

unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...

Carolina is No. 1 public for Fulbrights for first time | UNC-Chapel Hill In 2024-25, the prestigious cultural exchange program accepted 27 applicants from the University.

This is awesome to see so many @uncchapelhill.bsky.social students becoming Fulbright Scholars - it is a fantastic program. My father had a Fulbright and it had truly transformational, transgenerational impact on our family.
www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...

UNC Chapel Hill's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Innovation is searching for a Public Communication Specialist. They are exciting team driving strategic, economic & societal value at UNC, NC and beyond. Here's the posting:
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/296...

R. Scott Hawley: A Pioneer in Genetics and Mentor to Many - PLOS Biologue Authors: Gregory P. Copenhaver, Monica Colaiácovo, Giovanni Bosco, Julia Squarr We are deeply saddened by the passing of Dr. R. Scott Hawley…

A tribute to my friend R. Scott Hawley:
biologue.plos.org/2025/02/11/r...

The flora on UNC’s campus are doing their best to make me optimistic that spring is on the horizon.

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social,Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class at UNC loved talking w/ Christoph Haag @cnrs.bsky.social about his lab’s @journal-evo.bsky.social paper on recombination and asexuality in #Daphnia plus some unpublished work: doi.org/10.1093/evol...

Driving Innovation: How University Research-Defense Collaborations Can Fuel North Carolina’s Growth | Innovate Carolina North Carolina has deep-rooted connections to the military. With nearly 95,000 active-duty personnel serving across three branches, the state’s citizens benefit from strong collaboration between local...

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Our (@mei_newt, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class at UNC had a great talk w/ Frank McNally from UC Davis on his lab’s #GENETICS paper showing C. elegans can correct trisomy and triploidy during female meiosis using spindle asymmetry: doi.org/10.1534/gene...

What a lovely holiday treat to see my father's new book come out at @oxunipress.bsky.social
82 years old and still setting the pace for the rest of the family!
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It is great to see that North Carolina's Board of Science, Technology & Innovation (BSTI) has supported 80 small business with $2.339M in funding (full disclosure, I am a BSTI board member).
www.commerce.nc.gov/news/press-r...

A reminder: UNC Chapel Hill’s Biology Dept will start evaluating applications for a cluster of tenure track Assistant Professors: two in Plant Molecular Biology and one in Plant Evolutionary Biology this Friday so get your applications in and tell your friends!
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

One more week to apply! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on the evolutionary genetics of admixture in maize and teosinte.