GCB News

On Friday, April 26, 2019 GCB will host the inaugural International Research Training Group (IRTG) Symposium.

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in March 2019:

MICROBIOME

A host protein called Serum Amyloid A (Saa) is a major factor mediating the effects of the microbiota on the function of immune cells called neutrophils, according to a study by John Rawls and colleagues. Read more

Most people don’t think of bacteria and art together, but maybe they should. Bacteria formations can cause stunning and diverse patterns that resemble museum-quality artwork. 

Nan Luo, a postdoc in the You Lab, won first prize and $500 in the 2019 Envisioning the Invisible photo and image contest for her image, “Bloom,” in which she investigated these bacterial pattern formations. 

A host protein called Serum Amyloid A (Saa) is a major factor mediating the effects of the microbiota on the function of immune cells called neutrophils, according to a study published March 7 in the open-access journal PLOS Pathogens by John Rawls of Duke University School of Medicine, and colleagues. 

GET FOCUSED

The Duke FOCUS Program is an exciting opportunity for freshman students to get exposed to ideas from the vantage point of different disciplines across the humanities, sciences and social sciences. The Duke Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB) has faculty involved in two of the 14 FOCUS clusters being offered in fall 2019: “Genetics and Genomics: Epigenetics, Environment and Ethics” and “What If? Explaining the Past/Predicting the Future.

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in February 2019:

DISEASE

Doug Marchuk was part of a team that conducted a study to determine important genes, functions and networks contributing to the pathobiology of cerebral cavernous malformations from transcriptomic analysis.

Unless they’ve had a family member with cancer, most people don’t know that cancer cells mutate rapidly to escape the drugs we use to kill them.

Genetic edits and protein restoration in mouse models of Duchenne muscular dystrophy remain viable one year after single CRISPR treatment.

A key goal of Together Duke is to invest in faculty as scholars and leaders of the university’s intellectual communities. To foster collaboration around new and emerging areas of interest, Intellectual Community Planning Grants (ICPG) are available to groups of faculty.

Here are summaries of a selection of the papers published by GCB faculty in January 2019