Spring 2026
Jingting defends his thesis and graduates!
Liz is invited by NCEMS to talk at the Biophysical Society’s workshop on The Dawn of Synthesis Research in Biophysics: Making use of Petabytes of Biological Data
On the same trip, she presents at Biohub and Genentech!
Yue graduates and starts work as a Bioinformatics Scientist at Axle Informatics in DC!
Fall 2025
Liz receives the LCRF BI early career award!
Yue successfully defends her thesis!
Her first author paper is accepted in iScience!
Chaeyeon (Chloe) Sung joins the lab as a Chemistry graduate student!!
Liz gives a talk at the ecDNA Fusion conference and at the Cold Spring Harbor Single Cell Analyses!
Oliver starts graduate school at UNC’s ecology program and is a Simons Fellowship finalist!!
Liz is interviewed in Science for ecDNA!
Kriti’s 2nd first author paper is selected for the PhRMA Foundation Trainee Challenge Award! The paper is also selected as CTS paper of the month!
Spring 2025
Aarav defends his honors thesis project and graduates with dual major in computer science and biology! He is off to a masters in computer science at UNC!
Molly joins the lab as a Chemistry graduate student!
Molly is awarded a Translational Medicine T32 fellowship!
Anna joins the lab as a joint Pharmacology (BBSP) graduate student with the Miller lab!
Anna is awarded a Pharmacology T32 fellowship!
Liz gives a talk at SACB at UC Anschutz!
Adesuwa (Biology undergrad) is selected for the Systems Approaches in Cancer Biology SACB scholar (one of six total students). She received funding to attend the SACB conference and present her work.
She is awarded a prestigious Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (Taylors Fellowship)!
Oliver (biology post-bac) is selected for the Systems Approaches in Cancer Biology SACB scholar (one of six total students). They received funding to attend the SACB conference and present their work.
Liz receives the PhRMA Faculty Starter Grant in Drug Discovery!
Liz’s working group proposal is accepted for a NCEMS subaward!
Fall 2024
Brunk lab begins an amazing collaboration with Bioskryb and Joe Dahl!
Jonnathan joins the lab as a Chemistry graduate student!!
Liz is invited to participate in the Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Roundtable on Transformational Science Enabled by Artificial Intelligence: Biology & Environment
Liz and Kriti are invited to participate in the National Science Foundation Synthesis Center for Emergence in the Molecular and Cellular Sciences (NCEMS), Inaugural Summit Meeting.
Liz is invited to give a talk at NIH! National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Genome Integrity and Structural Biology Retreat!
Kohen (Chemistry undergrad) and Aarav’s (computer science undergrad) paper is out in Frontiers in pharmacology on AI meets cytogenetics!
Jacob (computer science undergrad) and Stephanie’s paper is out in NAR cancer! Jacob releases CytoCellDB!
Brunk lab receives the Computational Medicine Pilot award to work on ecDNA!
Kriti’s poster is awarded at the UNC Chemistry Women in Science Conference!
Kriti’s first author paper is out in ACS Journal of Chem. Inf. Mod.!!!
Brunk lab publishes our curriculum and survey results of integrating data literacy and coding exercises into Liz’s large enrollment undergraduate chemistry class! Over 500 students across one semester! This marks Cyverse’s largest workshop to date!
ACS chemical Education. 2024
Spring 2024
Danielle graduates and receives the Brantley Research Award for her undergraduate honors thesis work!
Kohen graduates with highest honors and defends his undergraduate honors thesis research!
Aarav (dual major in computer science and biology) is selected for an Undergraduate SURF fellowship!
Jingting’s first author paper is out in Biotechniques!!!
Liz is an honored faculty for teaching, Morehead Cain, class of 2024!
Fall 2023
Kriti successfully defends her 2nd year oral exam!
Liz gives talks at the SERMACS (ACS) and the International Conference in Systems Biology!
Spring 2023
Jingting successfully defends his 2nd year oral exam!
Liz receives the IBM Junior Faculty Development Award !
Fall 2022
Kriti Shukla joins the lab as a Chemistry graduate student!!
Kriti was awarded a Matthew Stuart Morrisson Summer Fellowship and Eastman Fellowship!
Phil Bourne visits UNC and the Brunk lab!
You will be missed but never forgotten!
Nellie joins as lab dog! She joins in at lab meetings and goes for walks around campus with the students!
Liz collaborates with NSF’s Cyverse and launches first data literacy curriculum in her large enrollment undergraduate Chemistry class!
Brunk lab receives $75K to build educational computation workflows for outreach!
Spring 2022
Jingting Chen joins as a Biochemistry and Biophysics graduate student!
Jingting produces the Brunk lab’s first DNA metaphase FISH image showing ecDNA!
Fall 2021
Brunk lab receives funds from the Provost’s IDEA grant for data literacy outreach!
Yue Wang joins the team as the first graduate student! She joins from the Pharmacology program!
July 2021
Brunk lab officially opens!
Brunk Lab 
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