SPEAR is an undergraduate mentoring program at UIC developed Dr. Reagan DeFlorio and Dr. David Stone. Students will intern in Dr. Stone’s laboratory during the summer and receive guidance from Dr. DeFlorio during…
“While most Chicagoans forget about plants during the bitter winter season, Matthew Frazel, greenhouse manager and skilled horticulturalist, is dedicated to their survival.” -UIC Today. Seedlings that didn’t make the cut for research…
Eun Sun Kim, David N. Zaya, Jeremie B. Fant, Mary V. Ashley |Posted on February 05, 2019
Professor Mary Ashley and her current graduate student, Eun Sun Kim, and her former graduate student, David Zaya published a paper in PLOS One. Click here to read the publication.
Nominees for Rising Star of the Year Award are UIC research scholars within ten years of their Ph.D. who have made significant contributions over at least the last three years at the institution.…
Professor Don Morrison’s article “Hidden Gems in the Transcriptome Maps of Competent Streptococci” was published today in Frontiers in Molecular Biology. Morrison’s work highlights the use of transcriptional maps in providing insight into…
The peer-reviewed Journal of Hydrology has published Professor Miquel Gonzalez-Meler’s “Seasonality of nitrate sources and isotopic composition in the Upper Illinois River.” Results of Gonzalez-Meler’s research indicated that biogeochemical nitrate reduction and isotopic…
Professor Alexander Shingleton’s research has recently been published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, “Frontiers”. Shingleton and colleagues conducted their research on “Plasticity Through Canalization: The Contrasting Effect of Temperature on Trait Size and…
It is unclear how removal of neuronal debris and initiation of neuronal regeneration following nerve injury are co-regulated. In this study, it was shown that the extracellular domain of the engulfment receptor, CED-1,…
Undergraduate Student Jocelyn Garcia took the first place prize for Undergraduate Research in Quantitative Biology. Jocelyn was one of five finalists selected nationally at the NSF-Simons Center for Quantitative Biology Conference on November 17,…
Janet Richmond, head of Biological Sciences, is stepping down at the end of this academic year. The search for her successor has begun. The advertisement reads: The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences…
