News Archive
March 38, 2013: Lt. Governor Dan Forest visits the UNC Genome Sciences Building (more>>)
October 15, 2012: Terry Magnuson elected as member of the Institute of Medicine (more>>)
October 12, 2012: GSB Opening Symposium and Dedication (more>>)
October 1, 2012: Welcome to new CCGS and Chemistry Faculty Member Dr. Eric Brustad (more>>)
September 30, 2012: Informatics approach helps doctors, patients make sense of genome data (more>>)
September 27, 2012: Congratulations to Yun Li- Recipient of the 2012 Jefferson Pilot Fellowship (more>>)
September 23, 2012: Chuck Perou leads TCGA analysis of breast cancer published in Nature (more>>)
September 5, 2012: New ENCODE Findings Published as Consortium Looks Ahead to Future Studies (more>>)
August 30: CCGS Researchers license new technology (more>>)
August 27, 2012: UNC-Chapel Hill rises to 9th in federal R&D expenditures (more>>)
August 17, 2012: The V Foundation selects UNC team as 2012 translational grant recipients (more>>)
August 1, 2012: Dangl Lab Leads Analysis of the Arabidopsis Thaliana Root Microbiome (more>>)
August 1, 2012: Jim Evans Discusses the impact of whole genome sequencing and the recent ENCODE Papers on NPR’s Morning Edition (more>>)
July 20, 2012: Dittmer selected to serve as chair of AIDS-Associated Opportunistic Infections and Cancer Study Section (more>>)
Julyl 2, 2012: Family History of Schizophrenia, Bipolar Disorder May Up Kids' Risk for Autism (more>>)
June 19, 2012: Genetic Marker in the Vitamin D Receptor Gene Associated With Increased Overall Survival for Pancreatic Cancer Patients (more >>)
June 6, 2012: James Evans quoted in Nature News article on fetal genome screening
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May 21, 2012: Discovery suggests new combination therapy strategy for basal-like breast cancers (more >>)
May 15, 2012: Jonathan Berg quoted in The Wall Street Journal's Health Blog (more >>)
May 11, 2012: Molecular subtypes and genetic alterations may determine response to lung cancer therapy (more >>)
May 9, 2012: Eric Juengst highlighted in “real doctors, real people” profile and video
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May 1, 2012: UNC BCB graduate student featured in USA Today’s Grad School Guide
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April 30, 2012: Scientists awarded $2.4 million to study genetic variation in people with diabetes (more >>)
April 16, 2012: GeneSeek cofounder Daniel Pomp receives award for contribution to bioscience industry (more >>)
April 16, 2012: Three-dimensional RNA modeling opens scientific doors (more >>)
April 12, 2012: Dynamics of transcription factor binding reported in Nature by the Lieb group (more >>)
April 11, 2012: Thriving on science: in depth with Jason Lieb (more >>)
April 4, 2012: Tim Palpant awarded the H.V.P. Wilson Award for excellence in undergraduate research (more >>)
April 3, 2012: Jim Evans quoted in The News & Observer, Scientific American Blog (more >>)
March 23, 2012: Marcia Van Riper will travel to Ireland with Fulbright Award (more >>)
February 24, 2012: UNC Mouse Resource highlighted in special issue of Genetics/G3 featuring 11 papers coauthored by CCGS faculty (more>>)
February 8, 2012: Yun Li highlighted in Nature Jobs article on Biostatistics Careers (more >>)
February 6, 2012: Pat Sullivan Proposes Pathway Model for Schizophrenia in Nature Medicine “Bench to Bedside” Opinion Piece (more >>)
February 6, 2012: Study by Conlon Lab Establishes Link between Genetic Defect and Heart Malformation (more >>)
January 11, 2012: Ethan Lange and colleagues find first major mutation associated with hereditary prostate cancer risk (more >>)
January 1, 2012: UNC Curriculum in Genetics and Molecular Biology PhD program tops rankings of Genetics and Genomics PhD programs in the country (more >>)
December 15, 2011: Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena elected as a fellow of the American Academy for the Advancement of Science (more >>)
December 6, 2011: Praveen Sethupathy Recognized as "Rising Young Investigator" by Genome Technolog y(more >>)
December 6, 2011: CCGS scientists funded to study genome sequencing in clinical settings (more >>)
November 3, 2011: Jeff Dangl receives large community sequencing award from DOE Joint Genome Institute (more >>)
October 24, 2011: Study confirms males and females have at least one thing in common: upregulating X (more >>)
October 1, 2011: New Genome Science Building scheduled to open in March 2012 (more >>)
September 28, 2011: National Science Foundation taps Carolina researchers to develop national data infrastructure (more >>)
September 27, 2011: Personalized Medicine: Pharmacogenomics with Howard McLeod - podcasts (more >>)
September 19, 2011: Large international study discovers common genetic contributions to mental illness (more >>)
August 29, 2011: CCGS faculty funded to develop tools for analysis of Collaborative Cross mouse data (more >>)
August 16, 2011: Charles Perou, PhD, appointed May Goldman Shaw Distinguished Professorship of Molecular Oncology Researc (more>>)
August 1, 2011: Greg Copenhaver Receives NSF Award to Elucidate Mechanisms of Meiotic Recombination (more>>)
July 27, 2011: Jeff Dangl and Collaborators Map Plant Defense Interactome (more>>)
July 1, 2011: The Cancer Genome Atlas Completes Detailed Ovarian Cancer Analysis (more>>)
July 1, 2011: Karen Mohlke Awarded R01 to Nail Down Causal Genes for Type 2 Diabetes (more>>)
July 1, 2011: Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena Promoted to Full Professor (more>>)
June 3, 2011: Marcia Van Riper Elected to the American Academy of Nursing (more>>)
June 1, 2011: CCGS faculty member Alex Tropsha named Associate Dean for Research - UNC School of Pharmacy (more>>)
June 2011: Jason Lieb Collaborates on Jimmy V Pilot Study Targeting Ewing Sarcoma Therapy (more>>)
May 29, 2011: UNC-led team clarifies the phylogeny and genetic diversity present in laboratory mice (more>>)
May 4, 2011: Next-Gen Sequencing Symposium Highlights CCGS research (more>>)
May, 2011: Karen Mohlke Receives 2011 Ruth and Phillip Hettleman Prize for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement (more>>)
April 12-14, 2011: ELSI issues of genomic research spotlighted at UNC- hosted 2011 ELSI Congress (more>>)
March 29, 2011: Collaborative Cross Mice Highlighted in Recent Publications (more>>)
March 9, 2011: Jeff Dangl named fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (more>>)
February 18, 2011: Jim Evans Weighs in on the Promise of Genomic Medicine (more>>)
January 4, 2011: Cynthia Powell elected President-Elect of American Board of Medical Genetics (more>>)
December 22, 2010: Jason Lieb and modENCODE Consortium Publish an Integrative Analysis of Genome Function in c. Elegans (more>>)
December 13, 2010: Breast cancer genetic subtyping licensed for development by Perou and colleagues (more>>)
December 5, 2010: UNC-led team tests specificity of histone modifications (more>>)
November 2010: Jim Evans, Joe Muenzer and Art Aylsworth recognized as “Best Doctors in America” (more>>)
October 19, 2010: Wilhelmsen and Colleagues Find Gene linked to Alcoholism Sensitivity (more>>)
October 1, 2010: Welcome to New CCGS Colleague Terry Furey (more>>)
September 1, 2010: Eric Juengst Brings Expertise in Biomedical Ethics to UNC (more>>)
July 1, 2010: Jeff Dangl Featured in PNAS Profile (more>>)
July 1, 2010: Congratulations to Corbin Jones, Jason Lieb, Chuck Perou, and Ivan Rusyn, for Faculty Promotions (more>>)
June 27, 2010: Jim Evans Commemorates 10th Anniversary of Human Genome in Newsday (more>>)
June 7, 2010: Yufeng Liu Honored with 2010 Hettleman Prize (more>>)
June, 2010: Final Report Issued by National Academies’ Stem Cell Advisory Committee (more>>)
May 14, 2010: Essay from CGS Fellow Featured in Science Careers (more>>)
April 25, 2010: Sullivan Group Identifies Genetic Variants Associated with Smoking Behaviors (more>>)
April 15, 2010: Perou Lab Featured in Nature Careers Article (more>>)
April, 2010: CCGS Investigators Receive NC TraCS $50k Pilot Awards (more>>)
April, 2010: Pat Sullivan Wins $100,000 NARSAD Award (more>>)
March 30, 2010: Jim Evans Comments on the Myriad Patent Case (more>>)
March 1, 2010: CCGS Faculty Participate in NHGRI Current Topics Lecture Series (more>>)
February 22, 2010: Derek Chiang Selected a 2010 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow (more>>)
February, 2010: UNC Collaborative Cross Mouse Resource Featured in Scientific American (more>>)
January 31, 2010: Jason Lieb and Karen Mohlke Map Open Chromatin in Pancreatic Islet cells (more>>)
January 26, 2010: Terry Magnuson Highlights UNC Resources at NCRR Council Meeting (more>>)
January, 2010: Representatives from Global Pharmacogenomics Initiative Convene at UNC (more>>)
December 7, 2009: AACR Honors Chuck Perou as “Outstanding Investigator for Breast Cancer Research- 2009” (more>>)
November, 2009: Marcia Van Riper Honored With Distinguished Nursing Award (more>>)
September 30, 2009: Chuck Perou Directs Cancer Genome Atlas Project at UNC (more>>)
September, 2009: Giddings and Sullivan Labs Awarded ARRA “GO” Grants (more>>)
September 22, 2009: Terry Magnuson named to NIH stem cell research review panel (more>>)
August 17, 2009: Threadgill Lab Investigates New Target for Colon Cancer Therapeutics (more>>)
August 19, 2009: Breakthrough uses light to manipulate cell movement (more>>)
September, 2009: Daniel Pomp’ s Research Featured in Endeavors (more>>)
August, 2009: CCGS Faculty Direct a New Center of Excellence in Genomic Sciences (more>>)
July 1, 2009: UNC Study Rewrites Textbook on Key Genetic Phenomenon (more>>)
July 1, 2009: New Studies Illuminates the Genetic Basis of Schizophrenia (more>>)
June 5 2009: CCGS Investigators Develop Novel Technique to Analyze Structural Polymorphisms (more>>)
June, 2009: Jim Evans Lends Genetics Expertise at Home and Abroad (more>>)
August, 2009: UNC Hosts Gary Churchill’s Sabbatical (more>>)
November 27, 2008: Pomp and Mohlke Weigh In on the Hunt for Obesity Variants (more>>)
April, 2009: Two Awards Honor Jeff Dangl’s Contributions to Plant Biology (more>>)
May 8, 2009: NSF awards $2.18M to Expand Data Repository (more>>)
March 26 2009: Fred Wright Directs New Gillings Innovation Lab (more>>)
February 29, 2009: Dokholyan Lab Probes the Folding Dynamics of CFTR (more>>)
May 13, 2009: UNC Chapel Hill Noted for Nano- and Microtechnology Research (more>>)
February 9, 2009: New genomic test may guide breast cancer treatment choices (more>>)
February 1, 2009: Mohammad Yousaf Receives NSF Early Career Development Award (more>>)
December, 2008: CCGS Faculty Awarded UCRF Core Facility Pilot Project Grants (more>>)
December 2008: Terry Magnuson elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (more>>)
October 1, 2008: Jason Lieb Awarded the 2008 Hettleman Prize (more>>)
September 20, 2008: Rihe Liu Receives NIH Epigenomics Technology Development Award (more>>)
December 5, 2008: UNC Imports 8,000 Collaborative Cross Mice from Oak Ridge (more>>)
Fall, 2008: Fred Wright Receives Two Research Awards for Genetic Mapping Studies (more>>)
September 15, 2008: Giselle Corbie Smith Featured on "The State of Things" (more>>)
June 19, 2008: CCGS Faculty Awarded EPA Grant to Establish The Carolina Center for Computational Toxicology (more>>)
May 31, 2008: Jim Evans Participates in the 2008 World Science Festival (more>>)
May 14, 2008: Alex Tropsha Honored with K.H. Lee Endowed Professorship (more>>)
May 5 2008: CGS and CCGS Sponsor Policy Forum on Newborn Screening (more>>)
April 17, 2008: CCGS Faculty Invited to Participate in the "What's the Big Idea?" Lecture Series (more>>)
April 14, 2008: Conlon Lab Finds Not All Stem Cells Are Created Equal (more>>)
Spring, 2008: Kirk Wilhelmsen Appointed to Endowed Professorship (more>>)
Spring, 2008: Former CGS Postdoc Explores Race and the Genetics of Asthma in his new book “Biomedical Ambiguity” (more>>)
March 6, 2008: Jason Lieb and Helena Furberg-Barnes Receive UCRF 2007 Innovation Awards (more>>)
March 16, 2008: Ivan Rusyn Granted the 2008 Achievement Award from the Society of Toxicology (more>>)
March, 2008: CCGS Welcomes Two New Members (more>>)
February 15 2008: Morgan Giddings Comments "On the Process of Becoming a Great Scientist" (more>>)
February 1, 2008: UNC Involvement at the North Carolina Research Campus (more>>)
February 1, 2008: Illumina Technology at UNC- Now Accepting Submissions (more>>)
February 1, 2008: Introducing the New NIH-funded Center for Genomics and Society (more>>)
January 18, 2008: Yufeng Liu Awarded NSF CAREER Grant (more>>)
January 18, 2008: Federal Appropriation Establishes Cancer and Genomics Research Center at UNC (more>>)
December 15, 2007: RO1 Awarded to Morgan Giddings to Develop Proteomics Software (more>>)
December 12, 2007: Gail Henderson Invited to Speak on Local Radio Program “Radio In-Vivo” (more>>)
December 12, 2007: CCGS Faculty Comment on Pharmacogenetics and the Impact of Individualized Medicine (more>>)
December 7, 2007: NIEHS Grant Establishes Partnership to Improve Chemical Hazard Testing Paradigms (more>>)
December 1, 2007: Luda Diatchenko Reviews the Genetics of Human Pain Perception (more>>)
November 8, 2007: RENCI Director Dan Reed Takes Position at Microsoft (more>>)
October 25, 2007: UNC General Assembly Approves Establishment of BCB PhD Program (more>>)
October 21, 2007: CCGS Faculty Members Participate in Microsoft eScience Workshop at RENCI (more>>)
October 19, 2007: Greg Copehaver’s Research on Gene Stacking Makes the News (more>>)
October 18, 2007: Former GSK Executive Stephen Frye Recruited to Lead UNC Drug Discovery Center (more>>)
October 1, 2007: CCGS Researchers Awarded NHGRI Grant to Establish Center for Genomics and Society (more>>)
October 1, 2007: Pat Sullivan Awarded NIMH Grant to Elucidate Genetic Basis of Schizophrenia (more>>)
September 28, 2007: David Threadgill and Colleagues at UNC Awarded U01 Grant to Establish a Systems Genetics Research Consortium (more>>)
September 20, 2007: HAP-SAMPLE Provides Web Tool for Simulating SNP Genotypes (more>>)
September 5, 2007: Wei Wang and Chuck Perou Awarded 2007 Hettleman Prize (more>>)
September 4, 2007: Dangl and Weigel Discover Potential Role for Immune System in Plant Speciation (more>>)
August 31, 2007: Morgan Giddings Receives BME Exploratory Research Grant (more>>)
August 15, 2007: Brad Hemminger Promoted to Associate Professor (more>>)
August 2, 2007: Ivan Rusyn Promoted to Associate Professor (more>>)
August 1, 1007: Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena Elucidates the Origins of the Laboratory Mouse (more>>)
August 1, 2007: Todd Vision Promoted to Associate Professor (more>>)
June 1, 2007: Nikolay Dokholyan's Research Highlighted in Endeavors (more>>)
June 1, 2007: New CCGS Faculty Recruit, Wei Sun (more>>)
May 15, 2007: Jim Evans Receives Investments for the Future Award (more>>)
May 6, 2007: UNC Hosts Science and Technology Boot Camp for Judges (more>>)
May 1, 2007: Karen Mohlke's Search for Diabetes Genes Featured in One of Four Landmark Genome-Wide Association Studies (more>>)
May 1, 2007: Jeff Dangl Elected to National Academy of Sciences (more>>)
May 1, 2007: Request to Plan the BCB PhD Program Approved by UNC Graduate Council (more>>)
April 30, 2007: Terry Magnuson Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences (more>>)
April 17, 2007: BCB Hosts Bennett Computational Science Students (more>>)
April 16, 2007: Second Annual Chapel Hill Drug Conference (more>>)
April 2, 2007: Third Annual DevBio Symposium (more>>)
April 1, 2007: Ivan Rusyn Participates in WHO Assessment of Alcohol Carcinogenicity (more>>)
March 1, 2007: Jason Lieb Awarded modENCODE Grant (more>>)
March 1, 2007: Chuck Perou Promoted to Associate Professor (more>>)
January 12, 2007: Leslie Lange Leads New Study Linking CRP Polymorphisms to Heart Disease (more>>)
November 30, 2006: Postdoc Receives NIH Pathway to Independence Award (more>>)
November 1 2006: Chuck Perou Receives 2006 Jefferson-Pilot Award (more>>)
October 10, 2006: Pat Sullivan Among First Six Recipients of GAIN Genotyping Awards (more>>)
October 1, 2006: CCGS, HSL, and SILS Establish New Internship Program (more>>)
September 1, 2006: UNC Chapel Hill Hosts Community Genetics Forum (more>>)
August 19, 2006: Chuck Perou Receives V Foundation Grant for Cancer Research (more >>)
July 1, 2006: Alex Tropsha Awarded Exploratory Grant via NIH Roadmap (more>>)
June 20, 2006: Karen Mohlke Named 2006 Pew Scholar (more>>)
June 9, 2006: New CCGS Faculty in School of Nursing (more>>)
June 7, 2006: Gail Henderson Delivers ELSI Lectures in China (more >>)
June 1, 2006: Interdisciplinary Group Takes Integrative Approach toward Gene Conversion (more>>)
Apr 15, 2006: Ivan Rusyn and David Threadgill Collaborate on Genetics of Toxicity (more>>)
Apr 10, 2006: Fernando Pardo Manuel de Villena, Investigator in New Genome Dynamics Center (more >>)
Apr 1, 2006: Fei Zou Awarded NIH Grant to Develop New Methods for Mapping Complex Traits (more>>)
May 1, 2006: Undergraduate in CCGS Lab Awarded Fulbright Grant (more>>)
Apr 15, 2006: Alex Tropsha Named Chair of Medicinal Chemistry (more>>)
Mar 30, 2006: NCBC Grant Awarded to CCGS-initiated Collaboration (more>>)
Mar 28, 2006: UNC Hosts National Judges' Medical School (more>>)
Feb 15, 2006: Marcia Van Riper Awarded Tenure in School of Nursing (more >>)
Feb 1, 2006: Wei Wang Promoted to Associate Professor (more>>)
Jan 28, 2006: Todd Vision Appointed Associate Director of Informatics for NESCent (more>>)
Jan 22, 2006: Morgan Giddings Awarded NHGRI Grant to Develop Gene-finding Software (more>>)
Jan 20, 2006: Steve Rogers Wins AHA Award (more>>)
Dec 15, 2005: Leslie Lange Wins Roger R. Williams Memorial Award (more>>)
Dec 2, 2005: Jim Evans Named Editor-in-Chief of Genetics in Medicine (more>>)
Dec 1, 2005: UNC Repository to Receive Knockout Mouse Lines (more>>)
Nov 8, 2005: UNC Awarded $4.5 Million by US EPA to Create the Carolina Environmental Bioinformatics Research Center (more>>)
Nov 2, 2005: Alex Tropsha Wins Planning Grant to Establish Cheminformatics Center (more>>)
Nov 1, 2005: Rihe Liu Awarded Research Scholar Grant from ACS (more>>)
Oct 1, 2005: David Threadgill Promoted to Associate Professor of Genetics (more>>)
Sep 23, 2005: Rusyn and Threadgill Receive $2.6M from NIH to Apply Systems-Biology Approaches to Studies of Liver Toxicity (more>>)
Sep 2, 2005: Pat Sullivan Appointed Foreign Adjunct Professor at Karolinska Institutet (more>>)
Sep 1, 2005: Structure and PLoS Computational Biology Feature Articles from the Dokholyan Lab (more>>)
Sep 1, 2005: CCGS and Genetics Establish External Advisory Committee (more>>)
Aug 1, 2005: Kuhlman Wins Distinguished Young Scholar Grant from W.M. Keck Foundation (more>>)
Jun 12, 2005: "Render Unto Caesar..." and Op-Ed by Jim Evans (more>>)
Jun 1, 2005: Wei Wang wins Microsoft fellowship and NSF CAREER award (more>>)
Apr 26, 2005: National Academies establish guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research (more>>)
Apr 22, 2005: Waldrop establishes fund to support open-access publishing (more>>)
Apr 12, 2005: UNC Developmental Biology Training Program hosts its first annual symposium (more>>)
Jan 11, 2005: Giddings Awarded $1M to Develop Proteomics Software (more>>)
Dec 19, 2004: Lieb Group Receives ENCODE Grant from NHGRI (more>>)
Dec 13, 2004: Vision Lab Launches Plant Comparative Genomics Database (more>>)
Oct 1, 2004: CCGS geneticist David Threadgill receives 2004 Jefferson-Pilot Award (more>>)
Sep 29, 2004: More than a sum of their parts: UNC geneticists, statisticians, and computer scientists merge their expertise in a large-scale collaborative effort (more>>)
Aug 31, 2004: Translating genomics to society: UNC investigators awarded NHGRI grant for innovative ELSI research (more>>)
Aug 17, 2004: CCGS research news from Jason Lieb's lab (more>>)
Aug 4, 2004: Yufeng Liu harnesses statistical theory for real-world applications in genomics at UNC (more>>)
May 14, 2004: CCGS seminar speaker Eugene Koonin - "The human gene expression network and genome evolution" (more>>)
Apr 16, 2004: CCGS seminar speaker Joseph Henderson - "A virtual mini-fellowship in clinical genetics for primary care providers" (more>>)
Mar 31, 2004: WCHL interview with Jim Evans - "Genetics, medicine and society: from cancer genetics to human cloning" (to listen, go to WCHL archives)
Mar 30, 2004: Jim Evans participates in UN Global Biotechnology Forum (more>>)
Mar 15, 2004: Corbin Jones brings a unique blend of genomics and evolution to UNC (more>>)
Mar 12, 2004: CCGS seminar speaker Helen Berman - "The next generation protein data bank" (more>>)
Mar 8, 2004: WCHL interview with Kirk Wilhelmsen - "Genetic analysis of complex traits: addiction" (to listen, go to WCHL archives)
Feb 26, 2004: WCHL interview with Jeff Dangl - "What is genomics and how do scientists use genomic information?" (to listen, go to WCHL archives)
Feb 13, 2004: CCGS seminar speaker Greg Gibson - "Quantitative genomics on the fly: SNPs, microarrays and the inheritance of traits and transcripts" (more>>)
Jan 28, 2004: The CCGS establishes "translational genomics" at UNC (more>>)
Jan 22, 2004: Neurogeneticist Kirk Wilhelmsen joins CCGS and UNC's Department of Genetics (more>>)
Dec 30, 2003: WCHL interview with Jason Lieb - "Insulating the scientific process from politics and ideology" (to listen, go to WCHL archives).
Dec 22, 2003: Mayetri Gupta joins CCGS and UNC's Biostatistics Department (more>>)