Biological Sciences

Morgan Carter, assistant professor of biological sciences in the UNC Charlotte Klein College of Science and CIPHER center, has received a prestigious National Science Foundation CAREER award to advance understanding of how bacteria influence and communicate with the fungi they inhabit. The five‑year award totaling $1.22 million supports Carter’s project “Mechanisms of Hidden Microbes: Secretion […]

UNC Charlotte’s Reitzel Lab collaborated on a new research study led by Ph.D. candidate Ton Sharoni and Yehu Moran, Ph.D., at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, the article “An ancient anthozoan protein reveals an alternative evolutionary path of antiviral signalling” challenges long-held assumptions about the evolution of immune systems […]

The Klein College of Science welcomed researchers from eight states to UNC Charlotte on Monday, June 15, for the inaugural Southeastern Symposium on Genome Integrity and Chromatin Regulation. The new regional symposium builds on the success of the 2025 Carolina Symposium on Genome Integrity and Chromatin Regulation, which brought together 150 participants from 15 institutions […]

New research from the Klein College of Science’s Luo Lab was highlighted in The Microbiologist’s article “Hidden viruses reshape one of Earth’s largest carbon systems, study finds.” Elaine Luo, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, leads UNC Charlotte’s Microbial Ecology Lab, which studies microbial communities using metagenomics, field sampling, experimentation and computational […]

New research from the Ren Lab was featured in the article “Three CBX2 Molecules Found to Orchestrate Essential Stem Cell Fate Decisions” from AZO Life Sciences.  Led by Xiaojun Ren, associate professor and Irwin Belk Distinguished Scholar of Biology, the lab relocated to UNC Charlotte in the summer of 2024 and focuses on epigenetic mechanisms, […]

Pinku Mukherjee and Matthew W. Parrow have been named to the 2026 Class of Senior Members of the National Academy of Inventors, a recognition honoring academic inventors whose work has made a measurable impact through patents, commercialization and mentorship. “The induction of these faculty members is an extraordinary achievement and a powerful recognition of the […]

In the microscopic world inside a stem cell, some of the most important decisions about life’s earliest stages come down to only a handful of molecules. A new study from UNC Charlotte shows that just three molecules of a rare protein can spark the formation of massive gene‑silencing structures, helping cells choose what they will […]

Mukulika Bose ’22 Ph.D. and Jeffrey Powell ’18 M.S., proud alumni of the Klein College of Science, are recipients of UNC Charlotte’s 2025 10 Under Ten Awards. Each year, the UNC Charlotte GOLD Alumni Network selects ten graduates who exemplify the University’s mission through their achievements, volunteerism and philanthropic impact. The celebration, held Thursday, Feb. […]

A new study from UNC Charlotte’s Truman Lab has been published in Nature Communications, offering a deeper understanding of how cells respond to heat-induced stress. The paper, “Mechanosensor-mediated Hsp70 phosphorylation orchestrates the landscape of the heat shock response,” examines a novel key regulatory mechanism that rapidly activates the cellular defense to heat shock. “This study […]

Researchers from the UNC Charlotte Klein College of Science discovered how to translate a new language to unlock human immunology, in the first ever study to decode microglia, the cells of the brain’s immune system. This translator allows scientists and clinicians to compose messages in the immune system’s language by deciphering how different immune cell […]