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Tonya Bates and Carrie Wells introduce the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging Teaching newsletter. In each newsletter, we will share an article that has validated references and proven methods to help promote DEI in teaching. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging (DEIB) TEACHING NEWSLETTER Spring 2022 Issue #1 Small Changes to Promote DEI in College Classrooms […]

Undergraduate students in the Department of Biological Sciences have been invited to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, the oldest and most prestigious academic honor society in the United States. They are: Patrick Deegan, Yuleny Gomez Rodriguez, Mckenzie Miller, Rei Rama, Yashushi Yang, Rachel Hayes, and Madison Snyder. Nominees to Phi Beta Kappa […]

Dr. Eugenia Lo was awarded a prestigious NIH R01 grant entitled Plasmodium vivax Erythrocyte Invasion Mechanisms and Humoral Immune Response in Duffy Negative Africans. This award is funded for 5 years for a total of $3,224,551. Individuals of African ancestry were thought to be protected from Plasmodium vivax because they lack Duffy antigen expression on […]

Publication by graduate student Shreya Goyal along with co-authors Verónica A. Segarra, Nitik., Aaron M. Stecher, Andrew W. Truman, Adam M. Reitzel, and Richard J. Chi is featured on the cover of Traffic. The team’s publication is Vps501, a novel vacuolar SNX-BAR protein cooperates with the SEA complex to regulate TORC1 signaling. The sorting nexins […]

Dr. Brittany Johnson was awarded two grants this year: NIH R03 entitled Molecular mechanisms underlying glial inflammatory responses to Neisseria meningitidis: A pilot study and NIH R03 entitled RIG-I as a therapeutic target for bacterial CNS infection: A pilot study. Congratulations to our newest Assistant Professor.

Dr. Adam Reitzel is the 2021-2022 HHarshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award winner! Dr. Adam Reitzel is the 2021-2022 HHarshini V. de Silva Graduate Mentor Award winner!

CIPHER is led by Adam Reitzel, Professor of Biological Sciences, and Dan Janies, the Carol Grotnes Belk Distinguished Professor of Bioinformatics and Genomics. They are joined by more than 20 Charlotte faculty colleagues with expertise in computer science, bioinformatics, software and information systems, biological sciences, chemistry, mathematics and statistics, geographical information systems, public health, data […]

For UNC Charlotte biochemist Andrew Truman, a quest for new and better treatments for cancers and neurological diseases drives his research into protein folding and the DNA damage response, along with his desire to advance science broadly. To fund his work, he has received three significant National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants expected to total […]

Saturday, Sept 18th was the inaugural Session of the Pre-College Programs’ Saturday Academy Program. This Fall the Biology Graduate Student Outreach (BGO) group will be teaching a Saturday class once a month in the Woodward teaching labs. High school students will take the BGO designed (and taught) lab course through the STEM Pre-College Program run […]

Drs. Carrie Wells and Michelle Pass along with Ms. Jane Walsh have published “Face-to-face vs. Online Asynchronous Teaching in a Conservation Biology Course” in the journal Online Learning. This study resulted from a SoTL grant Drs. Wells and Pass received in Spring 2019. The team reports no difference in learning outcomes between face-to-face and online […]