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Big shout out to our summer undergrad, Alexia Horton, for doing such a good job on her project. Alexia is part of the CUREP program which matches undergraduate students from nearby universities to labs here at UNC. Alexia is a rising senior at North Carolina Central University studying Biology. For the last few weeks Alexia has been working with our awesome graduate student, Skylar Grimsley, on a variant of ABCA7 called T319A. She learned about the properties of ABCA7 as a lipid transport protein, it’s connection to Alzheimer’s disease and the impact that changing an amino acid has on a protein’s function. Super proud of you, Alexia!

 

Learn more about CUREP and how to get connected to labs doing interesting science:

 

 

The Starbird Lab attends ASCB! Skylar, Nicole, Johnna, and Camila presented their work, in addition to Dr. Starbird presenting research at two sessions, sitting on two panels, and completing activities associated with her role on the MAC Committee. We were also fortune enough to have our undergraduates tag along. What an awesome experience for our lab. A big round of applause to all of you for being such killer scientists 👏

Giving a big shout out to our lab members (Camila, Johnna, Nicole and Skylar) who have been accepted by the American Society of Cell Biology committee to present posters at the San Diego conference this year! This is a huge step for our girls and we are so excited to support them.  If you find yourself at the ASCB Conference this year, please feel free to stop by the girls’ posters and have a chat! Wish you the best of luck ladies 😉

 

 

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!

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