Greg Copenhaver

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:
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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...

innovate.unc.edu/driving-inno...

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.

UNC Chapel Hill’s Biology Dept is hiring a cluster of tenure track Assistant Professors: two in Plant Molecular Biology and one in Plant Evolutionary Biology. We're a vibrant community of awesome colleagues and an idyllic place to live. Please repost! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...

The North Carolina Board of Science, Technology & Innovation (BSTI) has released the 2024 version of its Tracking Innovation report containing 94 jam-packed pages of information, analyses and really useful figures:
www.commerce.nc.gov/news/press-r...

A general passion

Really happy to see Aimee Dudley taking the reins at #PLOSGenetics. I hope Greg Barsh and I kept it in good shape for her to do exciting things under the “by working scientists, for working scientists” banner.
dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones, & me) Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class at UNC Chapel Hill was abuzz talking w/ Matthew Webster from at Uppsala U on his lab’s @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social preprint showing surprisingly low recombination in termites: doi.org/10.1101/2024...

Super happy to see this review published - the first author, Cong Wang was co-advised as a graduate student by Yingxiang and I, and is a really fabulous independent scientist now.
doi.org/10.1080/1949...

Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones, and me) Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class at UNC was honored to have Scott Hawley from the Stowers Institute join us to talk about his super cool paper on achiasmate meiosis in Bombyx mori: doi.org/10.1016/j.cu...

Psyched to see collaborative PNAS article between my @UNC_Biology lab and Yingxiang Wang's lab on how liquid-liquid phase separation mediates activity of HEI10 during meiotic recombination.
www-pnas-org.libproxy.lib.unc.edu/doi/10.1073/...

Thanks Mark. Excited to see what bsky is all aobut!