Research by the Polikanov Lab was published in the journal Science this June. Their work reveals the molecular mechanism of one of the most fundamental processes in all cells of all living organisms…
Dr. Kate Warpeha organized the third annual PostBac and Graduate Student Research Poster Competition held in the SELE 4th floor Oasis on Wednesday, May 1st, 2025. Students and postbacs from 20 labs participated.…
Ignacio Escalante Meza, Assistant Professor, received an LAS Diversity Award for his project proposal, “The Eight-Legged Bugs Around Us.” LAS Diversity Awards provide resources for initiatives to promote and support meaningful diversity, equity,…
Congrats to Alex Daemicke, who was selected to receive the 2025 Silver Circle Award! The Silver Circle Awards have been given each year since 1966 to honor UIC faculty members chosen by the…
A small molecule shaped like a lasso may be a powerful tool in the fight against infectious diseases, according to a new study in Nature co-authored by University of Illinois Chicago researchers. Lariocidin,…
Thom Park and Rochelle Buffenstein were interviewed in the March 13th issue of Journal of Experimental Biology! You can read about their work with naked mole rats here.
Sage Delong, a grad student in Escalante Meza lab, has been awarded a Student Research Grant by the Animal Behavior Society. This grant will support Sage’s research project titled “The internal and external…
Are you interested in research? Would you like to get more research experience after you graduate? The Department of Biological Sciences at UIC is calling for applications to its PostBac TA Fellowship Program.…
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…
