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09/12/2023: Dr. Yan was awarded the 2023 EMGS Education Award in recognition of his sincere dedication to students and young investigator members of the Environmental Mutagenesis and Genomics Society (EMGS).

09/12/2023: Congratulations go to Jia and Anne on their EMGS Travel Award to support their presentations at the 2023 EMGS annual meeting at Chicago.

06/13/2023: Dr. Yan delivered a webinar to the NIH DNA Repair Interest Group titled “Functional studies of APE1/2 in genome integrity and cancer etiology” (weblink: https://videocast.nih.gov/watch=46297 )

05/22/2023: “Finding a cure for cancer, one DNA damage pathway at a time”. The Yan lab is featured in News and Features @Inside UNC Charlotte (weblink).

03/31/2023: Dr. Yan and Dr. Das represents FASEB on Capitol Hill. News and Events @Duke University (weblink).

03/29/2023: Dr. Yan was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Data Science Faculty Research Award (SDS weblink; DBS weblink).

03/16/2023: Researchers highlight nucleolar DNA damage response in fight against cancer. News and Features @Inside UNC Charlotte weblink and News release @EurekAlert weblink.

2/1/2021: Dr. Yan talked about "Distinct mechanisms of ATR-Chk1 DNA damage response pathway in response to DNA single-strand break" at the 1st International Electronic Conference on Cancers: Exploiting Cancer Vulnerability by Targeting the DNA Damage Response (weblink)

10/27/2020: Brianna is one of the spotlight students on our DBS website (weblink)

10/22/2020: Jude has been awarded The UNC Charlotte Young Alumni Chapter’s 10 Under Ten Awards . (weblink)

04/07/2020: Anh has successfully defended her MS thesis via WebEX. Congrats Anh!

02/29/2020: Katie‘s bioinformatics analysis of APE2 in cancers has been published in Scientifif Reports. Congrats Katie!

12/12/2019: The role of APE1 in SSB repair and signaling has been published in Nucleic Acids Research! Congrats to all authors especially Lin and Jude!

12/08/2019: Steven‘s paper was published in Biochemical Journal. Congrats!

08/15/2019: Dr. Yan was honored for his promotion to Full Professor and presented with a Jeffeson Cup by the Provost and Faculty Council President (weblink).

07/16/2019: Jude was honored in news at Inside UNC Charlotte titled “Undergraduate research leads alum to Yale and Duke Medical”. (weblink)

07/10/2019: Steven defended his PhD thesis. Congrats Dr. Cupello!

06/04/2018: “Biologist receives prestigious NIH R01 research grant”. Inside UNC Charlotte (weblink ).

01/08/2018: Our paper entitled “APE2 promotes DNA damage response pathway from a single-strand break” has been accepted for publication in Nucleic Acids Research!!! Congrats to all authors …:-) Great team work!

11/29/2017: Melissa won the 2018 Outstanding Master’s Thesis Award from the Graduate School. Congratulations!

8/8/2017: Katie has been awarded the ANSWER Scholarship and featured on ANSWER Scholarship website. Congratulations! (http://answerscholarship.org/ )

04/13/2017: Tess has been awarded the prestigious Barry Goldwater Scholarship. Congratulations! Here is the university news about the award (http://inside.uncc.edu/news-features/2017-04-13/two-outstanding-undergrads-earn-goldwater-scholarships).

12/27/2016: A PNAS paper authored by Zack and Lin has been online in early edition. Well done!

12/08/2016: The door of the lab is decorated for the holidays! Good team work!

11/30/2016: Melissa defended her M.S. thesis. Congrats!

05/31/2016: Victoria joined the lab as NSF REU participant. Welcome.

04/27/2016: Jude defended his honors thesis in biology. Congrats! Enjoy your new life @ Yale University!!

04/14/2016: Steven‘s invited review article was accepted for publication at Int. J. Dev. Biol. Congrats!

01/15/2016: Our lab is featured in the EXCHANGE: “Cell self-repair, researcher uncovers clues to cancer, neurodegenerative disorders” (Words: Tyler Harris; Image: Lynn Roberson). (here is the weblink)

01/12/2016: Anh joined the lab. Welcome!

10/21/2015: Tess and Dafe joined the lab. Welcome!

08/2015: A news entitled “Researcher shares lessons from his lab with Lab Animal journal” was published in the INK column in EXCHANGE. (here is the weblink)

08/05/2015: Lin joined the lab as a postdoc fellow. Welcome!

04/24/2015: Jude and Krystal gave short talks at the Annual Undergraduate Research Conference. Jude win the 1st place Departmental Award (with $100). Congratulations!

03/20/2015: Jude has been selected by the NSF BITURE REU program with a stipend of $5,250 and a subsistence allowance. Congratulations!

03/17/2015: Levine Scholar Vrushab has been offered by the MD program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine. Congratulations!

03/16/2015: CRS Scholar Krystal has been offered by the MD program at University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Congratulations!

03/04/2015: The manuscript, co-first authored by Darla and Melissa, has been accepted for publication in BBRC. Congrats!

08/08/2014: Steven and Melissa joined the lab as new graduate students. Welcome!

07/23/2014: Krystal presented her work to the third annual UNC Charlotte Summer Research Symposium.

06/05/2014: Our invited review article has been accepted by Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. Zack shares authorship on the paper. Congrats!

06/02/2014: Brad joined the lab as new graduate student . Welcome! So Zack is not new anymore.

04/25/2014: Jude delivered an oral presentation to Undergraduate Research Conference and won honorable mention. Congrats!

04/11/2014: Zack delivered his poster to the CBES annual retreat in the Center City.

04/03/2014: Charlotte Research Scholar Krystal joined the lab for the 2014 Charlotte Research Scholars Summer program and her Honors thesis in Biology. Welcome!

03/23/2014: Zack presented his poster to the Graduate Research Symposium at the Atkins Library.

03/20/2014: Shan delivered a poster presentation to the Gordon Research Conference – DNA Damage, Mutation & Cancer in Ventrura, CA.

01/11/2014: Peyman “Alex” Gharavizadeh joined the lab as a undergraduate student researcher. Welcome!

01/09/2014: Liping‘s paper has been accepted for publication in Cellular Signalling. Well done! It is a good start of 2014.

12/2013: Yogin was featured in a news entitled “Biology honors alumnus gained research experience with practical implications” in the Alumni & Friends Column in EXCHANGE by the CLAS. (here is the weblink!

9/16/2010: First Levine Scholar Vrushab joins the Yan lab!

9/4/2010: First graduate student Darla joined the lab.

8/29/2010: First batch of frogs arrived!

4/28/2010: Yan Lab website is open to public.