Welcome to the Ahmed lab

at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

 

We are study telomere biology, genome silencing, inheritance, aging and cellular immortality, traditionally based on the model organism C. elegans, with a recent focus on human genomes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Left picture: P granules that promote genome silencing decorate germ cell nuclei

Right picture: Oocytes of late-generation telomerase mutants posses chromosome fusions