Men’s Basketball Schedule for 2009-10
Nov.6......... Belmont Abbey(exhibition) .........................7:30p.m.
Nov. 9. . . . . . . . . Florida International. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (ESPNU)
Nov. 11. . . . . . . . N.C. Central . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. (ESPNU)
Nov. 15........ Valparaiso ............................................ TBA
Nov. 19. . . . . . . . Ohio State at New York. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9: 15 p.m. (ESPN2)
Nov. 20. . . . . . . . Syracuse/Cal at New York. . . . . . . . . . . 5 p.m. or 7: 15 p.m. (ESPN2)
Nov. 23........ Gardner-Webb ...............................7:30p.m. (FSS)
Nov. 29. . . . . . . . Nevada. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 45 p.m. (FSN)
Dec. 1........Michigan State ...............................9p.m. (ESPN)
Dec. 5........at Kentucky................................12:30p.m. (CBS)
Dec. 12....... Presbyterian..................................7:30p.m. TBA
Dec. 19....... TexasatDallas................................2p.m. (ESPN)
Dec. 22....... Marshall.......................................7p.m. (FSS)
Dec. 28....... Rutgers..................................8:30p.m. (ESPN2)
Dec. 30....... Albany.......................................7:30p.m. TBA
Jan. 4. . . . . . . . . at Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBA
Jan. 10....... Virginia Tech ................................7:45p.m. (FSN)
Jan. 13. . . . . . . . at Clemson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. (ESPN)
Jan. 16. . . . . . . . Georgia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 p.m. (ESPN)
Jan. 20. . . . . . . . Wake Forest. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (ESPN)
Jan. 26. . . . . . . . at N.C. State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. (Raycom)
Jan. 31. . . . . . . . Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7: 45 p.m. (FSN)
Feb. 4.........at Virginia Tech .............................9p.m. (Raycom)
Feb. 7. . . . . . . . . at Maryland. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 p.m. (FSN)
Feb. 10.......Duke.................................9p.m. (Raycom-ESPN)
Feb. 13.......N.C. State....................................4p.m. (ESPN)
Feb. 16.......at Georgia Tech .............................9p.m. (Raycom)
Feb. 20.......at Boston College................................ Noon(CBS)
Feb. 24.......Florida State..................................7p.m. (ESPN)
Feb. 27.......at WakeForest.................................2p.m. (CBS)
March2....... Miami ..................................... 8 p.m. (Raycom)
March 6. . . . . . . at Duke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 p.m. (ESPN)
March 11-14. . . ACC Tournament at Greensboro . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (Raycom-ESPN2)
Women’s Basketball Schedule for 2009-10
Nov. 5. . . . . . . . . Francis Marion (exhibition). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.
Nov. 10....... Carson-Newman(exhibition) ...........................7p.m.
Nov. 13. . . . . . . . College of Charleston. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.
Nov. 18. . . . . . . . Coastal Carolina. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.
Nov. 22. . . . . . . . at UNLV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 p.m.
Nov. 25. . . . . . . . Presbyterian. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 p.m.
Nov. 29. . . . . . . . Charleston Southern. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12: 30 p.m.
Dec. 3. . . . . . . . . at Michigan State (ACC/Big Ten Challenge) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . TBA
Dec.6......... St. John’s ........................................4:30p.m.
Dec. 8. . . . . . . . . Radford. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.
Dec. 13....... Gardner-Webb .......................................3p.m.
Dec. 20....... SouthCarolina(MyrtleBeach) .........................3p.m.
Dec. 29....... KennesawState .....................................2p.m.
Dec. 31....... East TennesseeState.................................2p.m.
Jan. 2......... Winston-SalemState .................................2p.m.
Jan. 6. . . . . . . . . Georgia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.
Jan. 9.........at Connecticut .................................4p.m. (CBS)
Jan. 14. . . . . . . . at Virginia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.
Jan. 17. . . . . . . . Maryland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5: 30 p.m. (RSN)
Jan. 22. . . . . . . . Clemson. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8: 30 p.m. (RSN)
Jan. 25. . . . . . . . at N.C. State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (RSN)
Feb. 1. . . . . . . . . Florida State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (RSN)
Feb. 4.........atMiami ...........................................7p.m.
Feb. 8. . . . . . . . . at Duke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (ESPN2)
Feb. 11........ Boston College ......................................7p.m.
Feb. 15. . . . . . . . at Virginia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m. (ESPN2)
Feb. 18........at Wake Forest ......................................7p.m.
Feb. 21. . . . . . . . N.C. State. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 p.m.
Feb. 26. . . . . . . . at Georgia Tech. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6: 30 p.m. (RSN)
Feb. 28. . . . . . . . Duke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 p.m. (FSN)
March 4-7. . . . . ACC Tournament at Greensboro
UNC Researchers Decode
Entire HIV Genome’s
Structure — a First
The structure of an entire HIV genome has been decoded for the first time by researchers at UNC. The results have widespread implications
for understanding the strategies that viruses, including
the one that causes AIDS, use to infect humans.
The study, the cover story in the Aug. 6 issue of the
journal Nature, also opens the door for further research
that could accelerate the development of antiviral drugs.
HIV — like the viruses that cause influenza, hepatitis C and polio — carries its genetic information as
single-stranded RNA rather than double-stranded
DNA. The information encoded in DNA is almost
entirely in the sequence of its building blocks, which
are called nucleotides. But the information encoded in
RNA is more complex; RNA is able to fold into intricate patterns and structures. These structures are created
when the ribbon-like RNA genome folds back on
itself to make three-dimensional objects.
Kevin Weeks, a UNC professor of chemistry who led
the study, said that prior to this new work researchers
had modeled only small regions of the HIV RNA
genome. The HIV RNA genome is very large, composed of two strands of nearly 10,000 nucleotides each.
Weeks, who is also a member of the UNC
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, and Joseph
M. Watts, a chemistry postdoctoral fellow supported by
the Lineberger Center, used technology developed by
Weeks’ lab to analyze the architecture of HIV genomes
isolated from infectious cultures containing trillions of
viral particles that were grown at the National Cancer
Institute.
They then teamed up with other UNC researchers
and found that the RNA structures influence multiple
steps in the HIV infectivity cycle.
The study is the key to unlocking additional roles of
RNA genomes that are important to the lifecycle of
these viruses in future investigations.
“One approach is to change the RNA sequence
and see if the virus notices,” Swanstrom said. “If it
doesn’t grow as well when you disrupt the virus with
mutations, then you know you’ve mutated or affected
something that was important to the virus.”
The study was supported by the National Institutes
of Health and the National Cancer Institute.
