Professor, PI, Cell and Molecular Biologist. Study genome integrity and cancer etiology. Fun of Xenopus laevis. Opinions are my own.
Joined June 2014
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7 Aug 2024
Glad to share a lab research article @NatureComms Great work by co-authors Haichao Zhao @HaichaoZhao9 Jia Li @Jiali17022980 Zhongsheng You @YouLab_WashU Howard Lindsay @Howard_Lindsay
@unccharlotte @FASEBorg @EMGSUS @ASBMB
Check it out:
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📣 TOMORROW! The #EMGS presents an MMA webinar: "Understanding molecular mechanisms of mutagenesis with implications in human health and disease"
featuring talks by Drs. Graham C. Walker, Mikhael Kashlev and Julian Sale followed by a panel on surviving academia and pursuing exciting science!
Read More and Register Now! emgs-us.org/event/MolMech26
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The #EMGS is proud to sponsor the 2026 Alexander Hollaender Travel Awards to help students and young investigators from low- and middle-income countries attend the 2026 International Conference on Environmental Mutagens (ICEM), this September 6-10, 2026, in Edinburgh, UK.
Awardees will receive:
✅️ A two-way economy flight ticket to Edinburgh, UK.
✅️ ICEM Conference Registration
✅️ ICEM Gala Dinner Ticket
Learn More and Apply by March 15th: emgs-us.org/page/alexander-h…
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Feb 21
We are excited to invite you to the inaugural 2026 Southeastern Symposium on Genome Integrity and Chromatin Regulation, to be held at UNC Charlotte on June 15, 2026.
Details: biology.charlotte.edu/ssgicr…
@unccharlotte @ASBMB @EMGSUS @FASEBorg @ncbiotech
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📣 The #EMGS is pleased to announce the winners of our 2026 Professional Awards, who will give plenary lectures at #EMGS2026 this October.
Our 2026 Alexander Hollaender Award Winner is Dr. Barbara Parsons from the National Center for Toxicological Research, Food & Drug Administration.
Our 2026 EMGS Award Winner is Dr. Paul Doetsch from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
Congratulations to Dr. Parsons and Dr. Doetsch!
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Jan 30
Thanks to all the amazing authors who have contributed to this DNA Repair Special Issue "Genome maintenance pathways in cancer - etiology, biomarkers and targets" sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @EMGSUS @BrownUniversity @BrownUCancer
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31 Dec 2025
Great to see our latest study out in NAR Cancer: Replication-associated base excision repair/single-strand break repair regulates PARG inhibitor response via the PRMT1/PRMT5/ATR axis academic.oup.com/narcancer/a… @BrownUniversity @BrownUCancer @BrownPathology @EMGSUS
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6 Dec 2025
Trilled and humbled to received the 2025 Outstanding Faculty Research Award by Department of Biological Sciences at UNC Charlotte. Thankful to my mentors, collaborators, current/former lab members, friends and family. @EMGSUS @ASBMB @unccharlotte
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6 Oct 2025
BREAKING NEWS
The 2025 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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18 Sep 2025
Thrilled to spotlight the Charlotte Biology and Biotechnology Exchange Group at the NCBiotech Summit 2025
@unccharlotte
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18 Sep 2025
Shan Yan, Ph.D. @unccharlotte shares how the Charlotte Biology and Biotech exchange group has hosted 36 distinguished speaker since 2017. CBB plans to expand the community and collaborations for continued impact. #NCBiotechSummit2025
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18 Sep 2025
Shan Yan, Ph.D. @unccharlotte shares how the Charlotte Biology and Biotech exchange group has hosted 36 distinguished speaker since 2017. CBB plans to expand the community and collaborations for continued impact. #NCBiotechSummit2025
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Our #EMGS2025 Sam Wilson Award Lecturer, Mark Hedglin is presenting a wonderful talk in Platform 1: DNA Repair, "Rad6 Is Dynamically Accessible for Activation Within the Rad6(Rad18)2 Complex: Mechanistic Insights into a Ubiquitin Cascade Critical for Human DNA Damage Tolerance"!
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Our #EMGS2025 Hollaender Award Lecturer, Dr. Carole Yauk is speaking now!
Attendees: Don’t say you would’ve, could’ve, should’ve been there, and go see her talk, “The Eras Tour: A Genomic Journey Through the Evolution of Applied Genetic Toxicology.”
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14 Aug 2025
Looking for a postdoctoral fellow working in genomic integrity and cancer etiology. Please email me or apply via the below weblink if you are interested in:
jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/…
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The #EMGS is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert W. Sobol @rwsobol has been appointed the new Editor-in-Chief for Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis.
This September, congratulate our new Editor-in-Chief in-person at the 56th Annual Meeting of the EMGS in Rochester, New York!
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27 Jul 2025
Look forward to speaking at the Social DNAing webinar
Thank Mitch for a nice tour in flying end-joining! Dr. Yan @ShanYanLab for UNC-Charlotte will take us to the frogs and up! Sign up at cancer.columbia.edu/research…
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Thank Mitch for a nice tour in flying end-joining! Dr. Yan @ShanYanLab for UNC-Charlotte will take us to the frogs and up! Sign up at cancer.columbia.edu/research…
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13 Jul 2025
Excited to share a preprint led by recently minted PhD student Anne McMahon.
13 Jul 2025
PARP1 promotes replication-independent DNA double-strand break formation after acute DNA-methylation damage biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… #biorxiv_molbio
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3 Jul 2025
Congratulations to poster award winners @ 2025 Carolina Symposium on Genome Integrity and Chromatin Regulation! 👏 🎉
1st prize: Hana Wasserman
2nd prize: Zane Tolbert
3rd prize: Julie Disharoon
Honorable mentions: Erin Dickert and Adam Luthman
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