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Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Gilbert Giri (Daniel Dominguez Lab) has been awarded a 2026 Graduate Fellow Awards in Basic Science from UNC’s Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. The Graduate Fellow Awards in Basic Science is an annual competitive award … Read more

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate students were recognized by the University of North Carolina Graduate School in April for their prestigious external fellowships. External fellowships, which are highly competitive awards from the federal government and other organizations, add to Carolina’s … Read more

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Will Nenad (Katie Hoadley Lab) publishes “Hepatocyte-targeted Bap1 reduction in the liver primes an inflammatory transcriptional response” in G3 (Genes | Genomes | Genetics). This study highlights how hepatocyte-specific loss of Bap1 drives distinct … Read more

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Nina Nishiyama (Terry Furey and Shehzad Sheikh Labs) publishes “eQTL in diseased colon tissue identifies potential target genes associated with IBD” in Nature Communications. This publication highlights the power of using diseased tissue to … Read more

UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology student JP Flores is bringing research out of the lab and into the community––through beer cans. As part of Science For Good, the nonprofit he co-founded, Flores and collaborator Angelique Allen (University of Oregon) launched … Read more

The Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology officially welcomed our incoming 2025 class of new students with a full day symposium on Monday, June 2, 2025. The symposium was hosted by Will Valdar, BCB Director of Graduate Studies, and Mike … Read more

UNC Chapel Hill’s GeNe Families group, which consists of graduate students in the Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology, the Curriculum in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, and the Department of Genetics, celebrated community with a 2025 Chili Cook-Off on Tuesday, … Read more

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student JP Flores in the lab of Doug Phanstiel has been named 2025 Emerging Public Policy Leader by the American Institute of Biological Sciences. AIBS Names 2025 Emerging Public Policy Leader The American Institute of … Read more

Genetics Society of America is pleased to announce that UNC Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Graduate Student Ellen Risemberg (William Valdar & Martin Ferris Labs) is a recipient of the DeLill Nasser Award for Professional Development in Genetics for Fall 2024! Given … Read more

A team led by researchers at UNC-Chapel Hill (including recent Bioinformatics and Computational Biology graduate Marshall Davey and BCB faculty member Boyce Griffith) have developed an innovative computer model of blood flow in the human heart that promises to transform … Read more

BCB Graduate Student Amjad Dabi (Dan Schrider Lab) publishes paper in Genetics. Simulation has become a cornerstone of population genetic research. However, simulating large populations is extremely computationally demanding. To circumvent this problem, researchers commonly use a simple approximation to … Read more

BCB Graduate Student Ronald Futila Kyong-shin (Parr Lab / IDEEL) was awarded a prize for best poster at the Genomic Epidemiology Conference of Malaria (GEM) conference at the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England. Ronald’s research centers on the population … Read more