Kevin Boergens was featured in UIC Today about using super-fast microscopes to map entire mouse brain. Dr. Boergens is expected to start a tenured track appointment shared between BIOS and PHYS in the…
Ignacio Escalante Meza’s UIC’s Behavioral Ecology & Biomechanics lab recently conducted research on daddy long-leg spiders, a species of Opiliones. While much research exists on larger animals like birds and mammals, there is…
Madhura Paranjpe of Polikanov lab and former student Zahra Batool were first authors of a paper recently published in Structure, titled “Berberine analog of chloramphenicol exhibits a distinct mode of action and unveils…
BIOS professor Yury Polikanov and his lab researcher Elena V. Aleksandrova collaborated with Center for Biomolecular Sciences researchers to test a new antibiotic that works by disrupting two different cellular targets which would…
The second annual PostBac and Graduate Student Research Poster Competition was held in the SELE Oasis on Wednesday, April 24, 2024. There were 35 entries from 21 labs. It was a great display…
As advertised by the UIC Center for Advancement of Teaching Excellence in this article: Jasmine Hopkins, PhD candidate in the Department of Biological Sciences will present on the Use of templates and guides to…
Research accomplished in the Polikanov Lab at UIC helped their long-time collaborators at Harvard create a new antibiotic, cresomycin, that is effective in mice against several bacterial species that are increasingly difficult to…
Yuri Polikanov’s lab and colleagues from Harvard University have developed an antibiotic that could give medicine a new weapon to fight drug-resistant bacteria and the diseases they cause. The UIC scientists provide critical…
BIOS research scholar Ignacio Escalante Meza’s recent paper about wolf spiders was highlighted in another scientific journal. The paper, published in Animal Behaviour, was covered by the Journal of Experimental Biology.
Congratulations to Rachel Poretsky for contributing to the UIC team that spearheaded one of ten successful NSF-funded Regional Innovation Engines, specifically the Great Lakes Water Innovation Engine. You can read about it in UIC Today here.
