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Today, Secretary Sanders joined Governor Josh Stein to celebrate North Carolina’s booming clean energy sector—over 20,000 new jobs and more than $24 billion in investments in the last 8 years! The milestone event took place at Kempower’s new EV charger facility in #Durham.

What a lovely holiday treat to see my father's new book come out at Oxford University Press. 82 years old and still setting the pace for the rest of the family! global.oup.com/academic/produ…

Our (Jeff Sekelsky, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class UNC_Biology 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: doi.org/10.1534/geneti…

Congratulations to Dr. Nicolas Pégard, an optical engineer in the Department of Applied Physical Sciences, for being promoted to associate professor and awarded tenure by the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost. Full story: bit.ly/3PQzb0r

On #NationalChocolateCakeDay, we’re celebrating sweet success in #Tarboro! In 2020, Sara Lee Frozen Bakery expanded its NC facility with a $19.8M investment, creating 108 new jobs. From chocolate cake to croissants, their delicious treats are helping fuel local growth! #MadeInNC

Driving Innovation: How University Research-Defense Collaborations Can Fuel North Carolina’s Growth innovate.unc.edu/driving-innova…

Our (Jeff Sekelsky, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class UNC_Biology loved talking w/ Christoph Haag CNRS 🌍 Université de Montpellier about his lab’s Evolution Journal paper on recombination and asexuality in #Daphnia plus some unpublished work: doi.org/10.1093/evolut…

The flora on ⁦UNC-Chapel Hill⁩ campus are doing their best to make me optimistic that spring is on the horizon.

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

This is awesome to see so many UNC-Chapel Hill students becoming Fulbright Scholars - it is a fantastic program. My father had a Fulbright and it had truly transformational, transgenerational impact on our family. unc.edu/posts/2025/02/…

Our (Jeff Sekelsky, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class UNC_Biology loved talking w/ Andrew Kern Andy Kern University of Oregon about his lab’s brand new Current Biology paper on discovering octopus ZZ, ZO sex chromosome system: cell.com/current-biolog…

The hard copies of my father’s latest book arrived. Champagne tonight! hup.harvard.edu/books/97806742…

Our (Jeff Sekelsky, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class UNC_Biology loved talking w/ Bengt Hansson from Lund University about his lab’s #G3journal paper on male-biased crossover patterning in birds + some unpublished work: doi.org/10.1093/g3jour…

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

Visiting New Orleans #NOLA this week just for a bit of R&R. My wife and I ate at Toups' Meatery this evening. It was insanely good. The lamb neck is a must but huge portion. The staff could not have been nicer.

Our (Jeff Sekelsky, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class UNC_Biology loved talking w/ Takashi Akera from NIH NHLBI about his lab’s super cool bioRxiv on meiotic cohesin errors driving sterility in hybrid mice. doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Thrilled to announce our study on the histone variant H2A.W & pericentromeric crossovers is now out in PNAS! We show that loss/knockdown of H2A.Ws boosts meiotic crossovers in Arabidopsis pericentromeric regions: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our (Jeff Sekelsky, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class UNC_Biology loved talking w/ Leah Rosin (Lee-ah Rose-in) from NICHD News about her lab’s super cool PLOS Genetics paper on a unique chromosome segregation mechanism in holocentric moths doi.org/10.1371/journa…

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

I'm psyched to see our latest collaborative paper come out in The Plant Cell in which we show that Aurora 1 kinase is an APC/C substrate that mediates spindle assembly and chromosome segregation in #Meiosis: academic.oup.com/plcell/article…