Qi Zhang Lab
@QiZhangLab
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We are interested in structures, dynamics, and functions of nucleic acids and nucleic acid-recognition proteins in gene regulation, cancer, and innate immunity.
Chapel Hill, NC
Joined August 2020
Our study describing how the nucleosome prevents cGAS from recognizing self-DNA is online @ScienceMagazine. An amazing collaboration between @QiZhangLab and @McGintyLab. Congratulations to @JoshBoyerPhD, @catson4unc, @JoshuaStrauss5, and @UNCLineberger.
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Our department is hiring! Join us as a tenure-track faculty member in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, and Biophysics.
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Updated on October 29, 2025 We are hiring! September/October 2025: The UNC School of Medicine is seeking a tenure-track junior faculty member in Biochemistry and Biophysics. This posting can be...
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Congratulations to Prof. Hashim M. Al-Hashimi for his election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences!!!
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The academy honors excellence across a wide range of fields, including academia, business, public affairs, and the arts.
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Our study describing how the lifetime, in addition to structure, of an RNA regulates its activity is online @nchembio. An amazing collaboration between @qizhanglab, @LazearLab, and @aFrankLab. Congratulations to @RheseThompson, @edgar_faison, and the team.
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Nature Chemical Biology - Biomolecules morph between conformations with distinct lifetimes essential for function. This study reveals the cores of flaviviral RNAs stay stable up to ten million...
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Huge congratulations to Hashim M. Al-Hashimi @ColumbiaBiochem for receiving The 2024 Laukien Prize @ENC_Conf !!!
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Our study describing the development and application of PD-MaP for probing protonation-coupled RNA conformational ensembles is online @J_A_C_S. Congratulations @edgar_faison and @amritanalla ! https://t.co/Jc94Q95WB9
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RNA molecules undergo conformational transitions in response to cellular and environmental stimuli. Site-specific protonation, a fundamental chemical property, can alter the conformational landscape...
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Our department is hiring! Up to two open rank tenured/tenure-track faculty positions in Molecular Biology and Biochemistry. The priority deadline for application is September 25, 2023. Please visit the following UNC-Chapel Hill website for details.
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Turing, von Neumann, and the computational architecture of biological machines | PNAS
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In the mid-1930s, the English mathematician and logician Alan Turing invented an imaginary machine which could emulate the process of manipulating ...
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Just had an inspiring read of an amazing perspective by Hashim Al-Hashimi @ColumbiaBiochem, making the case that biomolecules are computational machines. When DNA polymerase can be reduced into lines of code with conformational states being a form of memory, how far can we go?
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It's been a week folks! The project that defined my PhD has been published today in @Nature: https://t.co/AAZEJ8tEyW. Congrats to everyone involved in this work and a huge thank you to Hashim and Dan for their mentorship!! Also, my name is not a typo ! 1/2
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Nature - Systematic alteration of HIV-1 TAR RNA and quantitative determination of its propensity to bind to the Tat protein establish a key role role for a rare and short-lived RNA state in...
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Finally🥳 2021s GRC of Computational Aspects of Biomolecular #NMR will happen on June 18 - 23, 2023 (save the date & RT) in Mount Snow.
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Exciting seminar alert! Join us tomorrow morning to hear @DougKojetin @UFScripps share his lab's fascinating work on #nuclearreceptors using #NMR and complementary approaches. Hosted by @QiZhangLab @UNC_BCBP in Bioinformatics 1131 at 11 AM. Details here:
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Congratulations to Traci M. Tanaka Hall from NIEHS for receiving the RNA Stewardship Award from the RNA Society of North Carolina @NC_RNA_Meeting!
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Register now for NC RNA 2022! https://t.co/rTEWrymhQP Amazing speakers, networking, travel awards, and more!
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Jenny Pan-Yun Ting has been chosen for the 2021 ICIS-Pfizer Award for Excellence in Interferon & Cytokine Research (formerly the Seymour & Vivian Milstein Award from 1988 – 2020) https://t.co/pKhiUsPMWx via @httpstwittercomCytokineSociety
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Interested in how some of the first polymers were formed? @KnightGroupUNC has an open postdoctoral position in our exciting new Keck funded collaboration with @QiZhangLab searching for some of the origins of peptide formation. Apply/contact if interested!
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Thanks to the W. M. Keck Foundation for supporting our team! Thanks to many UNC colleagues for their help! We are also looking for postdoctoral researchers for this project (one in @QiZhangLab and Carter lab and one in @abigailsknight lab). Please reach out if you are interested!
Congrats BCBP FACULTY Charlie W Carter and Qi Zhang on the KECK AWARD and Abby Knight of @uncchemistry ! Carolina Scientists awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to answer the age-old question: How did life on earth begin? @UNC @QiZhangLab
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Congrats BCBP FACULTY Charlie W Carter and Qi Zhang on the KECK AWARD and Abby Knight of @uncchemistry ! Carolina Scientists awarded $1 million from the W.M. Keck Foundation to answer the age-old question: How did life on earth begin? @UNC @QiZhangLab
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We have an opening for one postdoc with expertise and enthusiasm in high-throughput LC-MS characterization in @KnightGroupUNC for an exciting new chemical biology project working with Drs. Charlie Carter and @QiZhangLab. Contact aknight at unc. edu if interested. Please retweet!
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We have an opening for one postdoc with expertise and enthusiasm in RNA biochemistry in @QiZhangLab for an exciting new team project working with Drs. Charles Carter and @KnightGroupUNC. Please contact zhangqi at unc. edu if interested! Please retweet!
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Our department is hiring! Open rank tenure/tenure-track faculty position in Molecular and Cellular Biophysics. The priority deadline for application is January 6, 2021. Please visit the following UNC-Chapel Hill website for details.
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