Inspire

First PhD Candidate!

The Starbird lab is ecstatic to announce that Skylar Grimsley has successfully completed her Oral Qualifications and is not a PhD CANDIDATE. What a rock star !!

We look forward to seeing the future Dr. Grimsley do amazing things 😉

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Words of Wisdom

Ladies and Gentleman, the Starbird Lab is back with another fun update! Check out Dr. Starbird’s wise words of wisdom in this latest article from Science.org:

How to establish your identity as a scientist

The Starbird Lab is dedicated to fostering a healthy and prosperous environment for all our students.

 

Words of encouragement: You are worth more than your failures and successes. You can do anything if you only continue to try so Keep. Moving. Forward!

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Five Questions with Skylar Grimsley

Guess what folks? The UNC Health News Team interviewed our very own Skylar Grimsley for a feature called:

Five Questions with Skylar Grimsley

Head over to the link below to get an inside look at one of Starbird lab’s awesome grad students. You’re a rockstar Skylar, keep up the great work!

 

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Special sneak peek..

Less than a week after the first paper from our postdoc comes out is the first paper from the lab! It’s a commentary on an important and timely issue: Special considerations for the use of AI tools by PEERs as a learning and communication aid

This paper is now available online but will come in print as part of a special JCP issue with contributions from several leading labs. Stay tuned! Check out the paper HERE

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We’re expanding!

The Starbird Lab would like to extend a huge welcome to Johnna Bingham and Camila Arango who will be joining the lab as our new graduate students. Johnna will be working on TAM Receptor Binding and Exosome Trafficking: Implications for Non-Lytic Viral Spread by Enteroviruses​. Camila will be investigating the lipid:receptor:ligand complex of TAM receptors using biophysical approaches such as single-molecule tracking and structural approaches like CryoEM.

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Want to get involved?

Starting today YOU can be part of the awesome science taking place in the Starbird Lab. We are fortunate enough to have some amazing people supporting us and we’d like to extend an invite to anyone who wishes contribute to making the Starbird Lab a success. Head over to the Donate page to learn more about getting involved with us.

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She’s beauty and she’s grace. She continues to motivate us all!

You heard it here folks! Join us in celebrating Skylar for getting an honorable mention for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. This is a very prestigious award and getting an honorable mention is quite an achievement! Glad we aren’t the only ones now that see Skylar is top notch and that future fellowship is coming! Congratulations Skylar!!!

 

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Watch out! She’s going places!

Skylar was accepted to attend the Pair-UP Workshop hosted at The Allen Institute in Seattle, WA, and sponsored by the ASCB, BWF, and CZI. Selection for the workshop includes a scholarship to cover the entire cost of the workshop, including travel and accommodations. During the workshop, Skylar will work with imaging scientists to determine how to best utilize cutting-edge imaging techniques to advance her ABCA7 project. Congrats Skylar!