Greg Copenhaver
Geneticist at UNC Chapel Hill interested in how meiosis and recombination work. Editor at PLOS Genetics.
- Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social had a great chat w/ Kent Golic @uofubiology.bsky.social about his lab's #GENETICS paper on #Drosophila ring chromosomes: doi.org/10.1093/gene...
- Our @jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social had a great talk w/ Steve Perlman from U of Victoria @uvic.ca about his lab’s @pnas.org paper on male and female X chromosome drive in D. testacea doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
- Exciting neuroscience and bioelectronics engineering by Wubin Bai and @steinlab.bsky.social working with #UNC Institute for Convergent Science. Their technology may open new doors for psychiatric and neuro treatments. innovate.unc.edu/cracking-the...
- Just a reminder that the application deadline for the @uncbiology.bsky.social tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology position closes in a week (Nov 17). Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
- Beautiful day for some @uncchapelhill.bsky.social football.
- Excited that the “Supercharging Energy Storage Innovations in North Carolina” report is live. Created by UNC’s Institute for Convergent Science, @unc-chemistry.bsky.social & UNC ECON, & funded by the NC Collaboratory it showcases NC as a leader in energy storage. innovate.unc.edu/new-report-n...
- The @uncchapelhill.bsky.social Department of Biology is searching for tenure-track Assistant Professor in Plant Molecular Biology. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place and Biology is an amazing group of people. To apply, see: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
- The Dept of Mathematics @uncchapelhill.bsky.social is searching for 2 Teaching Assist./Assoc. Prof positions. Chapel Hill is a wonderful place & the Math Dept is a vibrant community. Job ads at UNC or @amermathsoc.bsky.social. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307... www.mathjobs.org/jobs/list/27...
- It’s humbling to see my father’s latest @harvardpress.bsky.social book in the @lrb.co.uk London Review of Books. Despite my best efforts, he always stays a step or two ahead of me in scholarly productivity and quality 😊. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- I’m happy, particularly for lead student author Wanyue (Diane) Yu, to see our collaborative review on plant cross-over patterning in #meiosis published in @biochemsoc.bsky.social Transactions. doi.org/10.1042/BST2...
- Whoops...typo...Wanyue (Diane) Xu.
- Innovate Carolina at UNC Chapel Hill is hiring a PhD level Commercialization Fellow. The fellow will help @uncchapelhill.bsky.social researchers conceptualize & commercialize novel technologies. The Innovate Carolina team is fabulous - check out the job posting: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/301...
- I'm psyched to see our latest collaborative paper come out in @theplantcell.bsky.social in which we show that Aurora 1 kinase is an APC/C substrate that mediates spindle assembly and chromosome segregation in #Meiosis: doi.org/10.1093/plce...
- @jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & I give huge thanks to Frank McNally, Christoph Haag, Andy Kern, Bengt Hansson, @takashiakeralab.bsky.social & @scienceleah.bsky.social for being guests in our #Meiosis, Recombination, & Evolution of Sex class at UNC. A pic from our final session w/ students
- Huge congratulations to my @uncchapelhill.bsky.social colleague Bob Goldstein for being elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Bob is a brilliant developmental biologist who works on #Celegans, & on tardigrades (water bears). As if that's not enough, he's an amazing artist too!
- Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ @scienceleah.bsky.social about her lab's @plos.org Genetics paper on a unique chromosome segregation mechanism in holocentric moths. doi.org/10.1371/jour...
- Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ @takashiakeralab.bsky.social about his lab's @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social on meiotic cohesin errors & sterility in hybrid mice. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
- Woo-hoo! My friend and colleague, Jeff Dangl, together with Jonathan Jones & Brian Staskawicz have been awarded the 2025 Wolf Prize in Agriculture. Amazing recognition of even more amazing science: college.unc.edu/2025/03/wolf...
- Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking w/ Bengt Hansson from @lund-university.bsky.social about his lab's #G3journal paper on bird male-biased CO patterning + new work: doi.org/10.1093/g3jo...
- Hard copies of my father’s latest book arrived. Champagne tonight! www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
- Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social , Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class @uncchapelhill.bsky.social loved talking with Any Kern @uoregon.bsky.social about his lab’s @currentbiology.bsky.social paper on octopus ZZ, ZO sex chromosome system: www.cell.com/current-biol...
- The Biology Dept @uncchapelhill.bsky.social is searching for a Teaching Assistant Professor or Teaching Associate Professor. We're a vibrant community with fantastic colleagues and students. Apply and tell all your friends too! Here's the job posting link: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/297...
- This is awesome to see so many @uncchapelhill.bsky.social students becoming Fulbright Scholars - it is a fantastic program. My father had a Fulbright and it had truly transformational, transgenerational impact on our family. www.unc.edu/posts/2025/0...
- UNC Chapel Hill's Office of the Vice Chancellor for Innovation is searching for a Public Communication Specialist. They are exciting team driving strategic, economic & societal value at UNC, NC and beyond. Here's the posting: unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/296...
- A tribute to my friend R. Scott Hawley: biologue.plos.org/2025/02/11/r...
- The flora on UNC’s campus are doing their best to make me optimistic that spring is on the horizon.
- Our (@jeffsekelsky.bsky.social,Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class at UNC loved talking w/ Christoph Haag @cnrs.bsky.social about his lab’s @journal-evo.bsky.social paper on recombination and asexuality in #Daphnia plus some unpublished work: doi.org/10.1093/evol...
- Our (@mei_newt, Corbin Jones, & me) #Meiosis, Recombination & Evolution of Sex class at UNC had a great talk w/ Frank McNally from UC Davis on his lab’s #GENETICS paper showing C. elegans can correct trisomy and triploidy during female meiosis using spindle asymmetry: doi.org/10.1534/gene...
- What a lovely holiday treat to see my father's new book come out at @oxunipress.bsky.social 82 years old and still setting the pace for the rest of the family! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
- It is great to see that North Carolina's Board of Science, Technology & Innovation (BSTI) has supported 80 small business with $2.339M in funding (full disclosure, I am a BSTI board member). www.commerce.nc.gov/news/press-r...
- A reminder: UNC Chapel Hill’s Biology Dept will start evaluating applications for a cluster of tenure track Assistant Professors: two in Plant Molecular Biology and one in Plant Evolutionary Biology this Friday so get your applications in and tell your friends! unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/288...
- Reposted by Greg CopenhaverOne more week to apply! We are recruiting a postdoc to work on the evolutionary genetics of admixture in maize and teosinte.
