Nov 06, 2025 - Fall crafts with the Starbirdaires ๐
The Starbirdaires hit the town to do a couple of fun fall activities! We had lunch at a cafe for some cute bistro style sandwiches before heading to Klaystation in Raleigh for pottery painting. What a great way to round out this season with a bunch of awesome people!
Aug 06, 2025 - Oh she’s cool!
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:
https://our.unc.edu/find/opportunities/
https://unclineberger.org/curep/
Jul 16, 2025 - Check this out! We got a postdoc
Great news! We got ourselves a new postdoc. We are very excited for Dr. Steven J. Moran to bring his knowledge and expertise in molecular virology and immunology to our lab. He will be working on RNA virus spread through TAM receptor tyrosine kinases. How cool is that?! Best of luck Steven ๐
Jan 14, 2025 - Incoming: New Keypoint Fellow Class!
Dr. Chrystal Starbird was recently selected to join the 2025 class of Keystone Fellows, and appointed to the editorial advisory board for ACS Bio and Med Chem Au and as Chair of the Board for the Life Science Editors Foundation. Check out these stellar people in the link provided!
(https://keypoint.keystonesymposia.org/home/keypoint-newsletter-introducing-the-new-fellows-class-of-2025)
Jan 14, 2025 - We kicked butt at ASCB!
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 ๐
Jan 14, 2025 - Understanding Signaling Through Cell Membranes with Dr. Starbird
Dr. Starbird was featured in the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences blog, Biomedical Beat. The piece highlighted her NIGMS funded work along with information about her background. You can check out her Q&A session at the home NIH NIGMS home page HERE
Nov 19, 2024 - ASCB we’re coming for you…
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.ย 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 ๐
Oct 08, 2024 - First PhD Candidate!
The Starbird lab is ecstatic to announce that Skylar Grimsley has successfully completed her Oral Qualifications and is now a PhD CANDIDATE. What a rock star !!
We look forward to seeing the future Dr. Grimsley do amazing things ๐
Sep 16, 2024 - 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!
Jul 25, 2024 - 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!
