PhD defense tomorrow for Kia Perez-Vale from Mark Peifer!

Congratulations to GMB student Ellysa Vogt, from the Gladfelter Lab, on being awarded the Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from BWFUND!

Congratulations to GMB student Marta Cruz Cisneros, from the Heise Lab, on being awarded the Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from BWFUND!

Happy Black in Genetics Week, Everyone! I’m Alex, a PhD candidate at UNC Genetics PhD. I study postranslational histone modifications and 3D chromatin architecture in flies. I’m so excited to meet other Black Geneticists and Genomicists! #BIGxWeek #BIGxRollCall

If you perform motif analysis and like using R, check out memes, a new wrapper for MEME Suite tools. McKay_Lab Spencer Nystrom UNC Genetics PhD plos.io/2WCpAT0

Kandace Thomas defense this afternoon!

EDGE Genomics: Outstanding new NHGRI funded program to increase diversity of students going into careers in genomics! 2-summer research program for undergraduates from underrepresented groups. See med.unc.edu/ppmh/education… for details. Please retweet.

Fantastic return to the annual UNC Genetics retreat, with Dept of Genetics, GMB, and BCB students, faculty, postdocs, and staff. Great science and fun in Wilmington, NC.

I won an award for Most Outstanding Talk at our genetics retreat! See below for an adorable photo of me cheesing with my PI. 🥇