Dr. Chrystal Starbird
Welcome to the Starbird Lab at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. Our lab is broadly focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms of disease.
Building a scientific environment where everyone is supported fully in the development and pursuit of their ideas so that they can bring their creativity and curiosity to research.
Mar 02, 2026 - From the lab bench to the Bay 🧬✨ #SFBiophysics #BPS2026
The Starbirdaires had a fantastic time at the Biophysical Society conference this past week in San Francisco. We are so very fortunate to have had the opportunity to present our science to the community! Big shout out to all the cool people we met and all the great ideas we were given while there. Look out soon for updates from us about how presentations went (once I gather all the pictures 👀)!
Jan 21, 2026 - Our Starbirdaire goes international!
Camila was chosen as one of the participants for the intensive CCP4/CCPEM workshop hosted at the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Chile. CCP4/CCPEM are major collaborative computational projects in structural biology that provide software suites for analyzing structures in crystallography and cryoEM. The 2 week workshop had attendees from Latin American universities, and was a combination of state of the art lectures and hands-on tutorials led primarily by expert members of the CCP4 and CCPEM communities.
Participants from the course were able to gain deep insight into the theory and gain experience in data processing for these techniques, learning tools and methods in macromolecular structure determination.
Camila was given a travel award to attend this workshop AND gave a 3 minute flash talk on her project. Check out this awesome course HERE
Structural insights into the role and targeting of EGFRvIII
Atrish Bagchi, Steven E. Stayrook, Katerina T. Xenaki, Chrystal A. Starbird, Sofia Doulkeridou, Rachid el Khoulati, Rob C. Roovers, Karl R. Schmitz, Paul M.P. van Bergen en Henegouwen, Kathryn M. Ferguson, Structural insights into the role and targeting of EGFRvIII, Structure, 2024, , ISSN 0969-2126 [DOI]
Transforming myself and academia for good
Chrystal Starbird, Transforming myself and academia for good, Cell, Volume 184, Issue 4, 2021, Pages 851-853, ISSN 0092-8674 [DOI]