Welcome to the Ahmed lab

at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

We are interested in the topics of telomere biology, genome silencing, inheritance, aging and cellular immortality, which we have traditionally studied using the model organism C. elegans. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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

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