We and our fellow labs had a great time at the UNC Science Expo this weekend sharing our science with the community! We had microscopes available for folks to learn about the use of model organisms and fluorescence in science. Even Ramses came to learn about "glowing worms"!

Congratulations to our senior undergraduate Sarah Torzone 🥥🌴 on winning the Brantley Award for excellence in research in molecular, cell, and developmental biology for her senior honors thesis! We are so proud of her spectacular scientific work and her outstanding presentation.

Two awesome poster presentations from two of our undergraduates! Melisa presented at the Biology 395 Poster Symposium and Kendra presented at the Celebration of Undergraduate Research. Kudos to both wonderful students!

Congrats to Gidi Shemer, one of four recipients this year of The Carolina Covenant Scholars “Clark & Kessler Award” for outstanding mentorship!   #uncbiology #unc #biology #mentorshipaward

Attention soon-to-be and recent graduates: The Brennwald and Baker labs are UNC Chapel Hill are hiring a joint research technician! This is a unique opportunity to gain skills in molecular biology, genetics, and structural biology while working in two very supportive labs 🎉🔬

So honored to be in the inaugural class of #FHScholars! I’m excited to use these resources, opportunities, and platform to take the The Evans Lab and our science to the next level. Special thanks to my lab, mentors, and colleagues Duke University Duke Department of Cell Biology 🍾😆🥳

So proud of all your amazing accomplishments. What a remarkable journey its been!

Thank you UNC Women in Science for a fun day of learning, presenting and community with incredible women in science! 👩🏼‍🔬 🪱 🧫🫖

Be curious. Pay attention. You may not be able to impress with knowledge and experience but you can impress with enthusiasm and attention. Mentors are paying attention to this. Most important: discover or confirm your passions for science.

I’m happy to announce our collaborative work with Villeda Lab, where we found that we can rejuvenate memory in 2 yr old (!!!) mice by activating a conserved Gaq protein in the hippocampus. TWO YEAR OLD MICE! (like a 70-80yo human) biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My labmate Addie (Coke) Schlachter was one of three phenomenal student speakers at today’s inaugural UNC_Biology Flash Talk event. Such a great turnout! What an awesome opportunity to build community within the department - and to learn about some incredible science too! #WomenInSTEM

The world is full of amazing things. Hiding in the human microbiome is a crazy new class of "viroids", small virus-like parasites--perhaps the first not found in a eukaryotes. 1/3 biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

⚠️Armstrong Lab Publication Alert⚠️ The work of recent PhD graduate, Tancia W. Bradshaw, PhD, along with fellow grad student, Chad Simmons, and USC College of Arts and Sciences undergrad, Rachael Ott, uncovers the involvement the Ras/MAPK signaling axis in #drosophila fat-to-ovary communication

Excited to share that my first paper from my graduate work UNC Graduate School in the Dowen Lab has been published in PLOS Genetics about #Celegans #KombuchaTea and #Probiotics!!! journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/a…

An honor to be featured in nature Career Q&A with Robin Donovan (met at @sacnas) "I saw that discrimination wasn't hearsay or rumours- it really did exist" features UCSD Biomed Sciences PhD Program UC San Diego School of Medicine MSTP program students - you gotta luv them.... nature.com/articles/d4158…

#MAPSS2024 was truly incredible! Thanks to the super awesome organizers Peter Douglas Carolyn M. Phillips and Pukkila-Worley Lab! So excited and honored to be co-organizing MAPSS2026 with the incredible Dowen Lab and Danielle Garsin! See y’all in 2 years!

A wonderful couple of days of great science at #MAPSS2024. Some amazing presentations from lab members Rachel DuMez-Kornegay , Sarah Torzone 🥥🌴 , and Kylie VanDerMolen. Congrats to Kylie VanDerMolen for her best poster award and Sarah Torzone 🥥🌴 for being selected as the winner of the best trainee talk!

Congrats to Rachel DuMez-Kornegay whose research on the probiotics found kombucha was highlighted by UNC endeavors: endeavors.unc.edu/quenching-curi…

Awesome poster presentation this week from Meris McElveen on her summer work as a UNC SMART student