RT @stutzman_alexis: I won an award for Most Outstanding Talk at our genetics retreat! See below for an adorable photo of me cheesing with…

The award for Most Outstanding Talk was shared by two students: Alex Stutzman @stutzman_alexis in the labs of @DMcKay_Lab (pictured) and Jill Dowen; and Rachel DuMez @DumezRachel from @RobDowenLab (Rachel had to leave early so Rob accepted the award for her).

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.

Labs they joined include @GladfelterLab @danielrmatute @dale_ramsden @RobDowenLab @JdowenL @DrBrianStrahl @The_DataDragon @kacylynngordon @samir_kelada @klmohlke @hyejung_won @mei_newt @DuronioLab @RaffieldUNC @vbautch1 @PolacheckLab

RT @mei_newt: EDGE Genomics: Outstanding new @NHGRI funded program to increase diversity of students going into careers in genomics! 2-summ…

Four GMB faculty members received awards: Greg Scherrer (@GregScherrer25): Supporting Mental Health Rob Dowen (@RobDowenLab): General Mentoring Jason Whitmire: General Mentoring Hyejung Won: General Mentoring.

Kandace Thomas defense this afternoon!

RT @PLOSCompBiol: If you perform motif analysis and like using R, check out memes, a new wrapper for MEME Suite tools. @DMcKay_Lab @Nystrom…

RT @stutzman_alexis: Happy Black in Genetics Week, Everyone! I’m Alex, a PhD candidate at @UNC_GMB. I study postranslational histone modifi…

Congratulations to GMB student @MartaCristiCruz, from the @Heise_Lab, on being awarded the Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from @BWFUND!

Congratulations to GMB student @EllysaVogt, from the @GladfelterLab, on being awarded the Graduate Diversity Enrichment Program grant from @BWFUND!

Correction - that’s @TheNIAsorry - that’s NIA (National Institute on Aging)! (We thought only NCI did the F99/K00 mechanism).

PhD defense tomorrow for Kia Perez-Vale from @peiferlabunc!